Rick (and Christine & Joe), this shot was a rescue. My subject was seated with his back to a busy street with the sun streaming in from behind camera-left. I had to up the exposure enough to get some frontal definition of his features, but was also trying not to blow everything else out. Clouds would randomly float by altering the lighting by reducing it a stop or two but also reducing the contrast, so many of my other shots don't have the hot spots.
I kept on shooting while hoping for a confluence of good light, a good pose and expression, and a streetcar to give me a better background then the uninteresting stores across the street. When I first pulled up this shot I was going to bypass it entirely as the light had given it a severe yellow cast. But I tried a b&w conversion and a little de-contrasting on his face. I can't do anything about the blown out spot on his glasses because that simply turns it grey. I could get into some Photoshop wizardry to clone in better glasses from another shot I suppose. Thanks for your comments, Rick, and to all who looked and commented, thank you! On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > I like it, but the background on the left is bright and distracting. Some LR > or PS magic to pull it down a stop or two would be good. > > Rick > > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bruce Walker <[email protected]> > To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2012 9:30 PM > Subject: PESO Derek > > A portrait of Derek Houghton, the owner of the Gallery Studio Cafe in > New Toronto. My wife was interviewing him for her music and arts blog > and I was getting candids. > > http://goo.gl/qc0nz > > A slightly different version, if you prefer colour ... > http://goo.gl/03E9H > > K20D w/grip, DA* 16-50, f/4.0, 1/60th sec, ISO 640 > > Digging my fine new (used) battery grip. :-) > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
