I saw this fabrication shop that had lots of cool equipment setting outside. I located the owner and told him what I was trying to do. He liked the idea and immediately showed me around his shop.
Over in one corner of the shop I found this portion of a boat that they were repairing. Two things struck me about the hull—its texture and the light that was streaming from a crack in the door. I walked around the hull several times before I settled on my perspective. I then took several shots at different settings. I settled on setting that would effectively underexpose the image by about three f-stops. I photo to be all about the light revealing the texture and I thought that underexposing the image did this the best.
Enjoy.
Camera settings: Nikon D3, Nikon 28-70mm f/2.8 at 70mm with a polarizing filter attached, shot at ISO 200, f/13 and 1/500th of a second on a tripod.
Post Processing:
Lightroom—Set white and black points, added mid-tone contrast, clarity.
Photoshop—used nik Color Efex Pro tonal contrast filter to add contrast to shadows, mid-tones and highlights and then converted the image to black and white using nik Silver Efex Pro.
I like the mood of the shot and the angle that the light comes from. I'm sure I would have missed "seeing" this one when I was trying to envision a shot.
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This almost looks like you were about 80 feet under water when you took this shot! It reminds me of sunken ships I have dived on (dove?). Great use of underexposure to create a mood.
ReplyDeleteLarry, I like this shot a lot. However the most important part to me is that you actually "asked" to look around. Even though I hear you guys saying that folks cooperate 99% of the time, it's something I [and a lot of photographers - I think?] have trouble with. Good job on the shot and the effort.
ReplyDeleteFine example of how you cans use light to be the subject of your photograph.
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