Albuquerque Dreams
More of Angelica Perea and Jesse Eckstein together, because, well, they're fun.
More of Angelica Perea and Jesse Eckstein together, because, well, they're fun.
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Nov, 2016Views
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Location
These two crazy women, Angelica and Jessy, are in an alley close to Central Avenue (old Route 66) in downtown Albuquerque.Time
About 7:00 pm on a warm summer evening in July.Lighting
There actually wasn't much direct light available in the alley, and the streetlights weren't on yet. There was a lot of shadow from the buildings, but indirect sunlight from the west. If you look at the background you can see light hitting the building behind, but it is bleeding in the left, from Central Avenue nearby, which has a straight East-West orientation, so the setting sun was lighting Central Avenue up from the west. I needed to add some light in post-processing.Equipment
I used my first EOS camera for this one: a Canon 20D. I had a 28-200mm, f/4.5-32 lens that had been used with a film camera. I did not use a flash. I wanted sharpness, so I used a 1/200 sec exposure. Manual white balance. ISO 800. I should have used a slightly lower aperture to avoid post processing.Inspiration
This was a group photo outing. Several photographers, several models. I was getting all the experience I could at the time, taking advantage of any opportunity that came out. I was often at the free workshops held by the Guerilla Photo Group in Albuquerque on Wednesdays nights. This was not a class night; it was an informal group of us getting together to take photos of models.Editing
All of the photos I took were RAW. I then adjusted the lighting a bit to account for heavy shadows in the alley.In my camera bag
At the time, I was only packing the Canon EOS 20D and the big telescopic lens was all I used. I had a seperate flash, a white card for adjusting white balance, extra battery, and extra memory.Feedback
Shooting in New Mexico is tricky. The intense sunlight can blow out colors and details, so filters are handy things, but for true color, it's best to get those early morning, or mid-evening shots. Sometimes the sunlight can change in a moment as a stray cloud pops over the mountains, so lighting changes minute to minute, and whatever setting you had on the last shot, might have to change. Sometimes I just use auto focus so I don't have to make those fast changes, when I trying to take multiple photos. I took 140 photos of these two characters.
