1/40 @ f/4, ISO400, 70mm (EF70-200mm f/4L IS USM)This picture is the first black and white in the Photo365 project. Well, technically, it is not entirely black and white. I have modified the photograph in Lightroom during post processing.
I was feeling a bit run down yesterday after work. The end of the work day kind of crushed my good spirits created earlier in the day. As a result, taking a picture for the project was not high on the priority list. However, while the grill was warming up, I busted out the camera and took a few shots of the Vietnamese doll in my kitchen sitting room (or whatever the room is called that is attached to the kitchen, but has a couch and TV….just like on the TV show “Two and a Half Men”). There was barely enough ambient light to capture this image without having to pull out the strobe and PocketWizards.
Upon importing the images into Lightroom, I wasn’t very pleased with any of the shots. I had some other pictures from today but they were of some birds on the bird feeder next door. I am not quite ready to start duplicating shots for the project just yet, so I decided to be a bit creative with post processing the photo of this doll.
First I needed to raise the exposure 1 1/4 stops and crop the “uninterestingness” out. I then decided I’d play around with some of the predefined filters in Lightroom 2. But in the end, I did not like the result any of them produced. I decided to undo the filters and take the saturation of all the colors down to zero (creating a black and white image). Next, I used the adjustment brush to add back the saturation of the red object on the doll. A final touch of vignetting got me to the picture that I am sharing with you today.
Let me know what you think.
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Random question: I was told to start a blog so that my clients or potential clients could connect with me, I am a photographer. Do you find that happening with your readers?
Thanks for reaching out Jackeline. Although I am just getting started with my own photography business, all the reading that I have been doing highly suggests you engage your clients and potential clients online. Most people find it very refreshing to have a public face of the company interacting with the photo community at large. I plan to keep this blog as my personal photography projects blog in the long haul and probably start another company blog specific to its areas of focus. I will also be starting a Twitter account and Facebook fan page to syndicate the content.