- Location
- Milwaukee, WI USA
- Name
- Luke
It's early evening and the dogs have finished their dinner. The sun is just starting to dip below the trees (but it's probably still about an hour from sunset on one of the longest days of the year). The dogs LOVE what I call "bone time", though they are just rolled rawhide chews. As soon as I ask them if it's bone time, they run to their designated spots and await the rawhide chews to come out of the drawer. They get them for about 5 minutes.... that way they last for a couple weeks, but it's still enough gnawing to remove any plaque build-up on their teeth.
So I grabbed my camera and focused in on Charlie. I was dialing the exposure compensation up and down and metering different spots to try to get an exposure that I liked (I really need to be careful when he's brightly lit not to get the whites blown out).
The first shot is a jpeg sooc which I like for the shadows and the quality of light. The photo clearly shows (to me, anyway) that this is taking place in the "golden hour". Brown is (strangely you may think) my favorite color and I love Lucy and her color brown the most so I don't often convert her to b/w.
But honestly, there is so little color IN the shot that it kinda begs to be converted to b/w. So I opened it in Silver Efex and tried various presets and finally settled on the one that you see in the 2nd shot. I liked how it opened up the shadows and how you can now more clearly see Charlie's left eye (it shows a bit more of his mischievous Terrier personality). I also like the added bonus of how it brings out the texture and the geometric patterns of the carpet (though it also makes me think the photos needs to be straightened just a touch) and I also think the processing brings out some ugly artifacts in Lucy (though maybe since she is not really the subject that is less important.
Please feel free to discuss how you see both photos, if you have a preference for one, what you think about my observations and/or what you may have done differently. The color version is "public" on my flickr account. If you feel like playing with the dogs, I know they won't mind . Feel free to download it and share your version here (as well as explaining WHY you chose to process it the way you did).
DSCF2010 by Luke, on Flickr
DSCF2010 by Luke, on Flickr
So I grabbed my camera and focused in on Charlie. I was dialing the exposure compensation up and down and metering different spots to try to get an exposure that I liked (I really need to be careful when he's brightly lit not to get the whites blown out).
The first shot is a jpeg sooc which I like for the shadows and the quality of light. The photo clearly shows (to me, anyway) that this is taking place in the "golden hour". Brown is (strangely you may think) my favorite color and I love Lucy and her color brown the most so I don't often convert her to b/w.
But honestly, there is so little color IN the shot that it kinda begs to be converted to b/w. So I opened it in Silver Efex and tried various presets and finally settled on the one that you see in the 2nd shot. I liked how it opened up the shadows and how you can now more clearly see Charlie's left eye (it shows a bit more of his mischievous Terrier personality). I also like the added bonus of how it brings out the texture and the geometric patterns of the carpet (though it also makes me think the photos needs to be straightened just a touch) and I also think the processing brings out some ugly artifacts in Lucy (though maybe since she is not really the subject that is less important.
Please feel free to discuss how you see both photos, if you have a preference for one, what you think about my observations and/or what you may have done differently. The color version is "public" on my flickr account. If you feel like playing with the dogs, I know they won't mind . Feel free to download it and share your version here (as well as explaining WHY you chose to process it the way you did).