Still here

Since I didn't post Monday or Tuesday this one is going to be a three parter, I have a feeling that gaps like this will be common but I still will be taking a new picture every day and posting them when I can. So on with business!

First up is Monday (2/15):

Morgan decided we needed to make a snow man before all of the snow melted, so we did... He was about 8 inches tall, has a string for a scarf and twigs for arms. We used a LED flashlight for the lighting which resulted in a really blue cast for the scene. For post processing (PP) I warmed the white balance a bit, bumped the contrast, lowered the brightness to kill the background and upped the saturation a touch to make the scarf pop.



Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash

Next up is Tuesday (2/16) this one was taken at The Blue Fugue in CoMO not much processing was done to it. Not much to say either.



Exposure: 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash

Finally, Wednesday's (2/17) capture, this is a picture I've been trying to get for over a month now but every time I was there the light was bad and every time the light was right I had to work. Finally everything came together and I managed to get what I was after. I was wanting to capture the contrast between man made/industrial elements and natural ones, I really liked how the bars and concrete wall formed perfectly straight lines while the rest of the scene was formed by twisted branches and leaves. As for PP I converted to B&W, tweaked the contrast a bit and applied Nikon's active D-Lighting to recover some of the texture on the bar in the foreground.



Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash