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And I'm also with John about wanting to set the correct exposure in-camera and then be able to tweak it, too. That's a big reason I shoot RAW.
Archive for March 22nd, 2009
Backlit Blooms: Before and After
The first in a series of two shots of a backlit Bradford Pear.
I was up early yesterday and felt inspired to go take some shots. The above is the best of a bad lot: I should’ve overexposed the shot in-camera, had to crop heavily because of mediocre lens selection, and didn’t reset the white balance from the previous indoor shots I’d been doing at work. In other words, when I was in post-production, there was much swearing.
Today, I went out to go re-create that shot. I didn’t go early enough to match the light, but I think it came out okay…
The second in a series of backlit shots of a Bradford Pear tree.
See, that’s right out of the camera. Different lens, different color balance, different day, but essentially the same shot.
I don’t do this very often—revisiting a subject in the same light, twice—because a lot of what I take is concert photos where you get one shot. Of course, I shoot in a lot of the same places with a lot of the same subjects, so in a way, I get to re-learn there, but I’m pushing myself to try this more often so I can have benefit of my re-thinking.
I have much, much to learn.
I’ll keep adding photos to the Backlit Blooms set as I find that I’m happy with them.
