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In response to my love filled blog post about Cape Cod Popcorn: erincooks.com/cape-cod-popcorn/, the Cape Cod PR folks sent me a case of chips.
Dear Friends: Please say you'll take some off these huge bags of temptation off my hands?!
Seven of Them
Gear used:
FUJIFILM X100T with 23 mm fixed lens: In this case, I missed not having a lens with longer focal length. I couldn’t get closer to the subject, I had to resort to some aggressive cropping during post-processing.
The rationale behind the settings:
Mode: The notes say the mode was aperture priority — Given the light conditions, I must have started by setting the ISO to native 200 — Aperture: f8.0 is meant to be small enough with this abundance of light, and possibly a little sharper than f5.6. Shutter Speed: 1/480 is much faster than needed, but I didn’t see any objection to it. Would it have made sense to use the built-in ND filter of the camera and to utilize a larger aperture and slower shutter speed? I don’t believe it would have made much of a difference in the visual effects of the picture.
During the shooting, I had already selected VELVIA for saturated colors to emphasize the yellow against the black background. Exposure compensation was set to -1 to darken further the background. Photometry was in the usual choice of PATTERN. Sharpness was set to 2 or HARD. To make sure of the desired emphasis on the color, the saturation was set to HIGH.
File utilized in preparing the photograph:
Although I was trying to get the photograph completely made in the JPEG generated while shooting, I ended up to use the RAW file to have a better handle on the tonal values.
Adjustments during post-processing:
My main goal to darken the background as much as possible: I started by setting the tonal curve to STRONG contrast. I pulled down both dark and shadow values. Reduced clarity, increased de-haze to its maximum value to hide the visible details of the background. The picture was taken in 16:9 aspect ratio. There was a table below the frame and plants or bushes on the left side. I excluded all these by cropping the picture into a smaller square format. I kept the film simulation the same as the one I had used while taking the picture: VELVIA and with the same motivation to keep colors as vivid as possible, I increase both vibrance and saturation values in LR.
Location:
Provincetown, Cape Cod.
Additional information about the location:
Additional information about the technical stuff
Aperture priority mode
"Monochrome with Red" filter film simulation applied to RAW file
The College Light Opera Company Orchestra before their July 15, 2005 production of Mame in Falmouth, MA.
