of course i have to mention the name diana thorneycroft here. just b/c.
interesting, as mondo pointed out long ago (and in dave's photo below) how bloody hard it is to get a good shot of a window with digital. there's almost always that white, washed-out kind of look.
there has to be a way to overcome that.
i dunno what it is.
p.s. my cat video didn't get a very good grade, but the other work i posted on here did ok.
I love that washed out white look, the french call this contre jour(I've mentioned this before). A dark forground and a bright background. It happens with regular film too, I think because the camera adjusts to the light of the outside as its focus and everything on the inside goes dark.
And yeah, that doll below made me think of thorney too.
Bullocks to the cat video not getting a good grade!
There IS a way to have both the interior and exterior with good balanced levels. If you remember a while back, I took some photos from the window of James's studio that did that. Mine was a low tech way to get the levels right. I focused the camera on the sky for one shot, and the foreground (interior) for the next. There is also HDR photography, photoshop adjustments, and the dodge and burn tools (named from traditional-film photography methods).
Grading is so lame sometimes. I used to hand in "underexposed" photos in photography class, cause I like how ghostly and light they were. I got bad grades, with the only comment being "this is way underexposed, what were you thinking". I wish at the time I knew to say something like "oh, it's "contre jour"! (or whatever the french term for my style was, hehe)
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interesting progression-- window/light/dog/human/light/doll.
of course i have to mention the name diana thorneycroft here. just b/c.
interesting, as mondo pointed out long ago (and in dave's photo below) how bloody hard it is to get a good shot of a window with digital. there's almost always that white, washed-out kind of look.
there has to be a way to overcome that.
i dunno what it is.
p.s. my cat video didn't get a very good grade, but the other work i posted on here did ok.
I love that washed out white look, the french call this contre jour(I've mentioned this before). A dark forground and a bright background. It happens with regular film too, I think because the camera adjusts to the light of the outside as its focus and everything on the inside goes dark.
And yeah, that doll below made me think of thorney too.
Bullocks to the cat video not getting a good grade!
ya.
bullocks to that indeed.
it was awesome.
I love the doll picture and the little girl picture.
I'm really fasinated by the beauty and mystery of the mundane.
There IS a way to have both the interior and exterior with good balanced levels. If you remember a while back, I took some photos from the window of James's studio that did that. Mine was a low tech way to get the levels right. I focused the camera on the sky for one shot, and the foreground (interior) for the next. There is also HDR photography, photoshop adjustments, and the dodge and burn tools (named from traditional-film photography methods).
Grading is so lame sometimes. I used to hand in "underexposed" photos in photography class, cause I like how ghostly and light they were. I got bad grades, with the only comment being "this is way underexposed, what were you thinking". I wish at the time I knew to say something like "oh, it's "contre jour"! (or whatever the french term for my style was, hehe)
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