June 17, 2008; Day 46.
I was struck tonight by how my car looked during the last few minutes of dusk. It stood out sharply against the much darker foliage behind it. So I dashed into the house for the camera and fired away. It also gave me some practice photographing cars, which is a tricky business. What angle? What height? What background? What lens? What's in the reflection? Etc.
The un-doctored photos came out okay. Just for fun, while I had this image in the raw converter, I grabbed the temperature slider and went all the way to the left (2000K). This is the result, plus sharpening (20-30-0 unsharp mask in Photoshop).
Ironically, when I moved the same slider all the way to the right (50,000K), I got an image remarkably close to what I saw originally (bright, sharp car in front of dark foliage). Makes sense considering how blue the light really was.
I was struck tonight by how my car looked during the last few minutes of dusk. It stood out sharply against the much darker foliage behind it. So I dashed into the house for the camera and fired away. It also gave me some practice photographing cars, which is a tricky business. What angle? What height? What background? What lens? What's in the reflection? Etc.
The un-doctored photos came out okay. Just for fun, while I had this image in the raw converter, I grabbed the temperature slider and went all the way to the left (2000K). This is the result, plus sharpening (20-30-0 unsharp mask in Photoshop).
Ironically, when I moved the same slider all the way to the right (50,000K), I got an image remarkably close to what I saw originally (bright, sharp car in front of dark foliage). Makes sense considering how blue the light really was.
June 17, 2008; Day 46.
I was struck tonight by how my car looked during the last few minutes of dusk. It stood out sharply against the much darker foliage behind it. So I dashed into the house for the camera and fired away. It also gave me some practice photographing cars, which is a tricky business. What angle? What height? What background? What lens? What's in the reflection? Etc.
The un-doctored photos came out okay. Just for fun, while I had this image in the raw converter, I grabbed the temperature slider and went all the way to the left (2000K). This is the result, plus sharpening (20-30-0 unsharp mask in Photoshop).
Ironically, when I moved the same slider all the way to the right (50,000K), I got an image remarkably close to what I saw originally (bright, sharp car in front of dark foliage). Makes sense considering how blue the light really was.
I was struck tonight by how my car looked during the last few minutes of dusk. It stood out sharply against the much darker foliage behind it. So I dashed into the house for the camera and fired away. It also gave me some practice photographing cars, which is a tricky business. What angle? What height? What background? What lens? What's in the reflection? Etc.
The un-doctored photos came out okay. Just for fun, while I had this image in the raw converter, I grabbed the temperature slider and went all the way to the left (2000K). This is the result, plus sharpening (20-30-0 unsharp mask in Photoshop).
Ironically, when I moved the same slider all the way to the right (50,000K), I got an image remarkably close to what I saw originally (bright, sharp car in front of dark foliage). Makes sense considering how blue the light really was.
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