Lakan
Posted by u l a n on Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 2:05 AM.
It's not uncommon for me to find only 1/4 of the total shots that I fired to be good, or at least, useful. This is most true especially when shooting under less than favorable light conditions, where you have to crank up the ISO, and use a really big opening, and struggle with a shutter speed not fast enough to freeze action. But, you know, you work with what you've got.
I had this shot of bloom keyboardist Lakan that was a mistake. And I knew it as soon as I took it. I saw it right away.
I really liked Lakan's general stance in that shot. And I also liked my semi-accidental framing. I was purposely putting part of the wall into the shot, leaned, lost my balance a bit, pressed the trigger, and ended up with more wall than I intended.
But I thought the framing turned out nicely. I knew that too as soon as I previewed the shot on my cam. And I was cursing myself for not minding the other settings resulting in the shot turning out too dark.
I kept the photo, partly out of laziness to delete bad shots, and partly out of hope that I could make something out of it. Well, I'm glad I kept it!
With some post-processing, I got it to look like a shot from some toy camera. I was post-processing the other recording shots and was desaturating them for that vintage look. I thought to give the same treatment to this grossly underlit shot. Tweaked the curves, burned the brights...and here it is.
A sort of grungy shot of Lakan, and my favorite shot of him so far.
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I had this shot of bloom keyboardist Lakan that was a mistake. And I knew it as soon as I took it. I saw it right away.
I really liked Lakan's general stance in that shot. And I also liked my semi-accidental framing. I was purposely putting part of the wall into the shot, leaned, lost my balance a bit, pressed the trigger, and ended up with more wall than I intended.
But I thought the framing turned out nicely. I knew that too as soon as I previewed the shot on my cam. And I was cursing myself for not minding the other settings resulting in the shot turning out too dark.
I kept the photo, partly out of laziness to delete bad shots, and partly out of hope that I could make something out of it. Well, I'm glad I kept it!
With some post-processing, I got it to look like a shot from some toy camera. I was post-processing the other recording shots and was desaturating them for that vintage look. I thought to give the same treatment to this grossly underlit shot. Tweaked the curves, burned the brights...and here it is.
A sort of grungy shot of Lakan, and my favorite shot of him so far.
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