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rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
edited October 16, 2010 in Street and Documentary
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  • ic4uic4u Registered Users Posts: 1,455 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2010
    This is great! Where is this?
    Karin


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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2010
    This makes me laugh out loud.
    Great timing.
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited October 9, 2010
    happy one and glad you caught it.

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  • misterbmisterb Banned Posts: 601 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2010
    That is great..
  • FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2010
    Sweet!

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  • craig_dcraig_d Registered Users Posts: 911 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2010
    That's great. Technically it's overexposed, probably because the statue is black or nearly so, and your camera decided to make it gray (classic AE error), but it still works pretty well because you don't want the statue to turn into mud. The only thing that really looks off is the tall building on the left, and it's not important to the shot. If this is a B&W conversion from a digital color shot, you might try pulling the blue channel down a bit to make the sky light gray instead of white.
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  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2010
    ic4u wrote: »
    This is great! Where is this?

    This is in Vancouver, BC, at the southwestern edge of Stanley Park.
  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2010
    lizzard_nyc wrote: »
    This makes me laugh out loud.
    Great timing.
    bfjr wrote: »
    happy one and glad you caught it.

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    misterb wrote: »
    That is great..
    Flyinggina wrote: »
    Sweet!

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    Thanks, all!
  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2010
    craig_d wrote: »
    That's great. Technically it's overexposed, probably because the statue is black or nearly so, and your camera decided to make it gray (classic AE error), but it still works pretty well because you don't want the statue to turn into mud. The only thing that really looks off is the tall building on the left, and it's not important to the shot. If this is a B&W conversion from a digital color shot, you might try pulling the blue channel down a bit to make the sky light gray instead of white.

    Thanks for the insight on the metering. I actually revisited the original:
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    I surprised myself because this was one of the very few occasions where I shot in manual mode and not AV. The exposure was probably quite good (just a touch bright here in SOOC) -- the conversion to b/w left the shoulder a touch blown-looking. Sky was mostly white clouds with just a hint of blue at the top, but I never thought of tweaking the blue channel by itself specific to the sky as I usually am focused on skin tones. Thanks for the instructive feedback!
  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2010
    BTW, I did want to point out one effect of shooting ultrawide (17mm in this case). You do not get good background blur/bokeh because of the DOF, but you do get a diminution of the background when you get close to the subject. That can be seen here with the next statue being the same size and quite close, but appearing much smaller due to the relative distance when stepping close with the wide lens. For street/PJ, this may be preferable to the blur/bokeh of a longer lens shot wide open.
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