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165/365 # Focus
This is one of those rare things - a shot that's 99% how I imagined it to be. This is inspired by this shot and this shot, both by Stephen Poff. Though it's much less fun than either. But it's the technique I'm exploring more than the image itself.
It's all about that feeling of waiting, hoping things will be OK without really knowing what to expect. It's also about working out what and who is really important and focusing on that.
After all the waiting and worrying everything turned out OK. Better than OK. But this feeling I'm trying to get across sort of stuck with me throughout the rest of the day . . . more the feeling of making sure I pay attention to those in my life that matter.
So that's the background to the shot, which - yes - I'm really happy with. Partly because it's exactly as I imagined it in my head, partly because it means something to me and partly because I put the effort in to get the image I wanted. I actually manually focused this shot (I used an eraser to set the focus) to make sure I got it right, rather than rely on the hit and miss nature of auto-focus. I'm thinking maybe the 50mm requires a bit more thought to set up a shot and get the end result you want. It worked today.
The only thing that stops me being 100% happy with this is that I don't think the focus is quite spot on. I'm talking increments here but it annoys me all the same. It's nearly there though.
It's a B&W shot (done in Lightroom) with a texture overlaid (in Photoshop). I dodged the area over my hand and used the healing brush to smooth out the texture layer - this was done to make my hand pop out of the shot a bit, not sure it's quite worked out that way but it's there or thereabouts. I erased the area over my wedding ring to give it a bit more clarity and re-imported the shot into Lightroom to up the exposure a bit.
And that's about it, apart from . . . 200 days to go! Ya . . . awwww, SHITE ;-)
165/365 # Focus
This is one of those rare things - a shot that's 99% how I imagined it to be. This is inspired by this shot and this shot, both by Stephen Poff. Though it's much less fun than either. But it's the technique I'm exploring more than the image itself.
It's all about that feeling of waiting, hoping things will be OK without really knowing what to expect. It's also about working out what and who is really important and focusing on that.
After all the waiting and worrying everything turned out OK. Better than OK. But this feeling I'm trying to get across sort of stuck with me throughout the rest of the day . . . more the feeling of making sure I pay attention to those in my life that matter.
So that's the background to the shot, which - yes - I'm really happy with. Partly because it's exactly as I imagined it in my head, partly because it means something to me and partly because I put the effort in to get the image I wanted. I actually manually focused this shot (I used an eraser to set the focus) to make sure I got it right, rather than rely on the hit and miss nature of auto-focus. I'm thinking maybe the 50mm requires a bit more thought to set up a shot and get the end result you want. It worked today.
The only thing that stops me being 100% happy with this is that I don't think the focus is quite spot on. I'm talking increments here but it annoys me all the same. It's nearly there though.
It's a B&W shot (done in Lightroom) with a texture overlaid (in Photoshop). I dodged the area over my hand and used the healing brush to smooth out the texture layer - this was done to make my hand pop out of the shot a bit, not sure it's quite worked out that way but it's there or thereabouts. I erased the area over my wedding ring to give it a bit more clarity and re-imported the shot into Lightroom to up the exposure a bit.
And that's about it, apart from . . . 200 days to go! Ya . . . awwww, SHITE ;-)