Monday, March 8, 2010

Ann - Picture Styles, Analogous Colors, and Mirror Lock-Up

 
This is an image from the field trip.  I was working on picture styles -- this is the monochrome/B&W picture style.  While I like how this image looks in B&W, I think that using the B&W picture style probably gives less flexibility than shooting in color and then turning the image into B&W in Photoshop.  The water near the boat and the boat itself are underexposed.  I tried like a maniac to selectively lighten both but when the boat was lightened, all sorts of lighter colored crud showed up on the side of the boat that wasn't visible when it was all darker.  I then tried like a maniac to use Photoshop to clone a clean piece of the boat onto the dirty part of the boat, all to no avail.  (I should have paid closer attention in Barbra's Photoshop class.)  Finally, I gave up -- an underexposed photo looked waaaayyy better than a dirty boat.  Fortuitously, I like the contrast between the dark darks and the lighter whites in this version anyway.  f/8, ISO 100, 1/60 sec.  The AH HA moment was when I realized that I LOVE the mirror lock-up function on my camera.  Since I'm still trying to channel Ansel Adams, I love the crispness that that function gives.


 
Also an image from the field trip.  Although I wasn't working on color, this picture of one of the small trees in the garden by the market illustrates analogous color -- yellow/green.  This one was taken in the portrait picture style, which gives a gentler, less dramatic effect.  I actually liked this picture a bit better in the B&W picture style because it emphasized all the crossing, curving lines without the distraction of color -- the B&W version was more abstract. f/5.6, 1/160 (it was pretty windy out), ISO 800 (it was getting to be late in the say and the light was getting dim).

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