experimenting with light…
So I had a little play, thinking that it might cover the contrast and fill exercise, until I read the exercise afterwards…
20th May, 2012
New mac has arrived and is up and running. I am still counting the cost of the hard disk failure—basically lost all photos from beginning of last September to now. Have been able to retrieve some from laptop and memory cards—but the rest is gone to the big bit bin in the sky. C'est la vie…
So I had a little play, thinking that it might cover the contrast and fill exercise, until I read the exercise afterwards…
Knew when Ylennia asked me whether I wanted to take some images in the new water villas…
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Covering two parts of this exercise with these images—looking at colour, f/stop etc but also texture…
In this exercise we look at whether or not a scene requires in-camera white balance correction…
This exercise aims to illustrate the difference between hard [bare-bulb] and soft [diffused] light…
Finding cloudy day images in our image library that would definitely not have been better in sunlight…
I know where we are going here—looking at shadows—and how clouds help to soften the shadows and the light…
The fact that daylight has colour—and that colour changes through the day—is something I am aware of…
A few months ago—if you’d suggested that I wanted to create stark, strong light and shadows—I’d have laughed at you…!
For this part of the exercise, we were encouraged to take our cameras out & capture some ‘wet’ images…
What’s more frightening—chased by a naked man in Windsor Great Parks—or attacked by aggressive terns…?
And so it begins—the pain-staking search for data on drives—and the systematic rebuilding of my system…