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DS233 Kind of Kind of Blue

Topic: Today's theme is the color blue. Blue sky. Blue plate. Blue M&Ms. Make a photo of something blue and post it today.

 

Title says it all.

 

Strobist info: Used "FP" (as in Flash Pulse) strobe mode. One SB800 zoomed to 105mm camera left at manual power setting of 1/4th, through a CTGB* gel :) Triggered by the camera controller unit (non-contributing). Shutter speed selected to nuke out the ambient light, aperture selected for shallow DOF.

 

Postprocessing: it's not desaturated in PP. I did minor cleanup of the background (my shirt reflected some of the light there) by an adjustment brush (-4EV) in Lightroom. Then, increased marginally the exposure and increased blacks for more punchy message. Increased saturation of blue and cyan (+10 or so).

 

*) CTGB - Color Temperature Garbage Bag

 

Practice photography at Daily Shoot. Learn to light at Strobist.

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Uploaded on July 6, 2010
Taken on July 6, 2010