Interface update...
I have added a new section to the Interface Publications website. It is named "Projects" and I will use it to display projects I am working on, series of photographs that donÂt fit into the other galleries and temporary exhibitions.
Currently it contains a new gallery: "Night Lights". This features eight images I took, as the name suggests, at night. Most were taken in a moving car. One was taken of a neighbourÂs house.
The method was quite simple. I turned off auto focus and set the lens to be extremely out of focus. Then it was just a matter of pointing the camera and pressing the shutter.
After a couple of shots that featured heavily over-exposed highlights, I set the aperture to under-expose by two stops.
I tried to hold the camera steady, but the car movement and the very slow shutter speeds added motion blur to the out-of-focus effect.
I then used image-processing software to examine and select the ones that had interesting features. At this point I have to confess to digital manipulation. I am sorry, but I succumbed to temptation. I committed colour saturation, contrast enhancement, hue shifts, noise introduction and, on one occasion, I even resorted to curves.
I will probably not pursue this type of photography much further. The taking is too easy. After a couple of experimental shots and adjusting the controls, it is just point and shoot.
A lot of the results are similar. Any skill comes from examining the results and looking for pleasing shapes and colours that will respond to manipulation. I am learning to "read" a representation of the RAW file and work out what sort of image I can get from it. Much the way I used to "read" a negative in the darkroom to work out what sort of a print it would produce.
Currently it contains a new gallery: "Night Lights". This features eight images I took, as the name suggests, at night. Most were taken in a moving car. One was taken of a neighbourÂs house.
The method was quite simple. I turned off auto focus and set the lens to be extremely out of focus. Then it was just a matter of pointing the camera and pressing the shutter.
After a couple of shots that featured heavily over-exposed highlights, I set the aperture to under-expose by two stops.
I tried to hold the camera steady, but the car movement and the very slow shutter speeds added motion blur to the out-of-focus effect.
I then used image-processing software to examine and select the ones that had interesting features. At this point I have to confess to digital manipulation. I am sorry, but I succumbed to temptation. I committed colour saturation, contrast enhancement, hue shifts, noise introduction and, on one occasion, I even resorted to curves.
I will probably not pursue this type of photography much further. The taking is too easy. After a couple of experimental shots and adjusting the controls, it is just point and shoot.
A lot of the results are similar. Any skill comes from examining the results and looking for pleasing shapes and colours that will respond to manipulation. I am learning to "read" a representation of the RAW file and work out what sort of image I can get from it. Much the way I used to "read" a negative in the darkroom to work out what sort of a print it would produce.
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