8th September 2010, n=48
Posted September 8th, 2010 at 02:51 PM by pdh
I was thinking about PADs and blogging and photographs today ... it only just occurred to me that I've always tried to post either an image-I'm-very-happy-with, or, if there isn't one, playing safe by posting a snap ... but I also thought how many times I use the camera and miss the mark - sometimes by a mile, sometimes by a millimetre ... I'm tempted to start a "Show Us Your Mistakes" image thread ... here is an example anyway ... I sat in a meeting in this room for over an hour watching the light change and wondering if the photograph I had in my mind would be gone by the time the meeting finished and I could come back with my camera (it was a good meeting by the way) ... yet the photograph I came home with was fatally compromised ... I had to crop the RHS in a clumsy way in order to remove the set of phone numbers that someone had stuck to the window shutters but that I hadn't seen (security not aesthetics) ... and I framed it badly and so sliced the top off (losing some of it's lovely tapering verticality and the option to crop it better) ... so this is today's nearly-photo ...
E-P2, Lumix 14-45mm, 1/500s, f/10, 14mm, ISO200
E-P2, Lumix 14-45mm, 1/500s, f/10, 14mm, ISO200
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I see why you were drawn to this picture. Is it a meeting room you can go back to another day to get the shot you wanted? I seem to get more pleasure out of the 'almost' pictures because I give so much fun time in trying to improve them pp, whereas the ones that are good straight out of the camera never get touched. I like my post editing just as much, if not a little more, than actually taking the photos. I guess it's because I feel I can be more creative with my computer than my camera. My photography book arrived today though so hopefully I will learn to be more creative with my e-pl1 too.Posted September 8th, 2010 at 03:07 PM by Briar
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I totally understand where you are coming from. Nowadays I am leaning more towards getting across what I want to capture or get across instead of making photo totally perfect (aesthetically), sometimes pp is involved, sometimes not...Posted September 8th, 2010 at 03:15 PM by hmpws
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Oh I can go back to it but will the lovely blue sky and the disk of cloud perfectly balancing the tree be there? (the one that was gone by the time the meeting finished, of course!)
I think I want to use the least PP I can, because I want to be good enough to get the shot right on-the-spot; when I was younger and had a nice 35mm setup I was too impatient to learn to take photographs properly; now I'm much older and have a nice mFT digital setup ... and I'm still impatient!
Which book is that Briar?Posted September 8th, 2010 at 03:54 PM by pdh
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It's the collins complete photography course ... read the intro this afternoon after work while sitting on my armchair by the window, beautiful sunshine streaming in ... lovely! Woke up three hours later when my husband got home from work! I obviously needed the sleep! The book was cheap on amazon but had good reviews so just ordered it as a taster really.Posted September 8th, 2010 at 04:24 PM by Briar
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nice shutters - I can see what you are aiming for
you could try it in B & W - mess around in Lightroom with tones etc., and maybe tint it
- when I first started back in February one of Don's Quests involved a similar subject and I spent hours trying to get the tones and shadow rightPosted September 9th, 2010 at 05:38 AM by BillN
