The pre-con work party ended up being combined with Karen’s music party at Tesla’s. And I got to take some pictures.
Pictures from the convention itself are making progress, but I’m not sure if they’ll go up tonight; I may have better things to do.
Author: dd-b
Shutter Speeds for Falling Water
I happen to have some pretty decent shutter speed sequences here, so I’m putting them together into a post.
Bottom of Falls
1/6:
1/13:
1/25:
1/50:
1/100:
1/200:
All those are at ISO 100; apertures range from f/4.5 to f/22. They were converted in Bibble Pro, with minimal adjustments: profile set to sRGB, sizing, and auto white and black points (since they’re similarly exposed and pretty much correctly exposed, that made them more similar in exposure).
Top of Falls
1/8:
1/13:
1/30:
1/1250 (ISO 200):
The first three are at ISO 100; apertures range from f/4.5 to f/20.
Using Curves
These aren’t any sort of organized presentation of the curves tool, but sometimes I feel like it might be useful to document how I work with it, and what I can accomplish. So here’s another example of “photo prep” (an annoying term, but “printing” as we used to call it is all wrong today, and “Photoshop” is of course just one product).
The exposure on this was good to begin with. Raw conversion (in ACR) didn’t do that much, just took the exposure down about 3/4 of a stop, moved the black point up, and increased brightness. That’s what the “original” of this pair is. (Mouse-over the photo to switch to the edited version; that uses Javascript, sorry.)
This was all one curves adjustment. The two points circled in blue expanded the range of the white water in the wave crest. The point circled in green prevented the lower tones from being pulled strongly downwards. And the point circled in violet increased the drama by darkening the shaded inside of the wave.
This photo was inspired by one by guppiecat.
Minnehaha Falls
An old favorite photographic subject for me.
I was hoping the water might be somewhere near the high mark that Emma described in War for the Oaks (and which actually happened once back in the 1980s), but no such luck.
Still have some good photos, I think, though. Also some interesting experiments with the fisheye; of which I wanted to post this one right away. There’s no gallery to click through to yet.
Music Party!
Photos from a party I was at last night. Thanks to my hosts and all the guests! I appear to have had a great time.
