Muddy Paint
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ingetietz
January 11, 2016
Join the conversation. Add a comment or even better, a critique. Let's get better together!
ingetietz
January 11, 2016
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ingetietz
January 11, 2016
Write a comment Great photography,love the visible markings,and eyes of this horse,love it !!
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Location
Grants Pass OregonTime
A foggy January morning. at 9:12 AM PSTLighting
As it was a foggy morning, it was done in natural light without a flash or reflectors.Equipment
This was shot with My 20.1 MP Sony Alpha 58 slt using the 18-55mm Sam Ii kit lens, hand held Exposure information is as follows: 1\160 sec @ f/7.1 ISO 800 at 55mm as metered ( 0 +\- Exposure Bias)Inspiration
I had been photographing my neighbor's horse over the course of a few days and upon waking that foggy morning I knew that I just had to try to use the fog to my advantage thinking a mostly white horse in the fog may produce some nice results in Black and White.Editing
After editing and posting to Viewbug a B\W edit with Shadow/Highlight /Pixal Radiace. ,Contrast/Brightness. adjustments and an added sepia tone done in PhotoShop CS2 . I got the Idea to "manualy" Add a Color Splash effect to the photo and also gave it a tighter crop , again in PhotoShop CS2 . I really liked this version Better then the first in camera B\W one that I envisioned before I took the shot and subsequently uploaded here the first time ..so I uploaded it as well... which happily brings us here.In my camera bag
When I shot Professionally I Used a Medium Format (6x6 cm) Roll Film Hasselblad 500CM with both the Carl Ziess CF 80mm and CF 150mm for 35mm I was loyal to my Various Canon. Camera Bodies and lenses a Minolta flash meter a Soligar 1° spot meter ,2 Quantam. batt. packs and 2 Vivitar 285 Flash heads.....really more than i can list here I didn't do any photoraphy for 10 or 12 years.. except for the kids birthday cakes In 2005 i bought my first digatal camera ...a cheap 6mp,(literaly off the Rack from the worlds biggest retail chain) Aptek 6800 DV/Still camera. and then a Canon G9 and and a Fuji fine pix I Travel relatively light these Days.... During the last year, its been primarily my Sony A7RIi and A58 Godox 850 flash and a Laowa 15mm f2 "Zero-D " for the A7RiiFeedback
Belive it or not my BEST Advice to anyone shooting Digital today was best explained long ago by Ansel Adams when he compared a photographic negitive to a musical score,and the Print as the Performance of that piece of music..... Meaning that any single negative ( or digital file) is open to interpretaion and can played many many ways by the same artist or even other artists (the Adams Negative Aricive is located at the Univeristy or Arizona "You don't Take a photograph....You make a photograph"...Ansel Adams .. There are far to many. digital photographers that belive any editing in a photo editing softwhere is somehow cheating (??) or "not really photography" Nothing can be farther from the truth ! Photoshop is a tool .no different than an enlarger and thermometer Photoshop is not about putting wings and a mustache on a goat (Although you could pretty convincingly) The darkroom for a photographer is no different than a Studio for a musician Todays music studio for an image file is known as photo editing software Anyone that belives Ansel Adams didnt tweek many of hi. single images in different ways .....doesn't really know the man or have never seen his differing performances of that particular image. Or more likely have never stepped into a photo lab As I browse Viewbug I see many...MANY good photos that could be GREAT photos with just the simplest. adjustments that can easily be done with just a handful of tools found in any decent photo editing program such as: Shadow/Highlight/Pixal Radiance Brightness/Contrast Saturation. All of which were utilized here. Are the same things we did in the Lab.. But not with Hard Drives using zeros and zeros driving a printer but with film or paper choice for of developer dilution rates and temperature variance even agitation rates and techniques could.....if mastered could produce predictable results Thank you for giving me this opportunity to jump on the digital soapbox and thanks to all who voted for my Muddy Paint Photo. MegaryT [[°©;]
