Yesteryear recreated this weekend

With a little patience, and some creative angling I found myself able to recreate a hypothetical scene from an earlier time and era. The building behind the car hosted 20 children getting a group photo before the parade began. There were also some random people walking the sidewalk and lingering where I did not want them in my frame. To remove the crowd I knelt down low, and carefully watched the viewfinder for the stranglers to leave the frame. More than once I had to relax, dip the camera down and practice some patience.

In an age where some magic filters can re-create a scene or eliminate lots of unwanted distractions, it felt good to get it 90% of the way I wanted it as shot. I chose a black and white version to make it feel even more like the period it was to represent.

-ehw

P.S. This is my father’s Buttercup attending the Cherry Blossom Parade with the DC Area Ford Model A club. It was a fun day to drive around the A way!

Making a Geisha Girl look Right

  A few weeks ago as I tooled around with my new OMD-10 Mark II I spied a geisha girl doll on a window sill.  I knew it would be a fun image.  So I snagged the shot.

Original Shot

    Now I took a shot.  The doll appears to the camera to be darker than the background in this high contrast shot.  My eyes could compensate, but a camera cannot.  I did not know my new camera well enough to do a could curve tricks I just leaned...but it was a nice high key shot.  The extreme highlights blowing out the doll, and making a quick high key vignette.  Nice.

    Problem is there was a distracting car in the photo.  So a quick trip into Snapseed on my tablet, while my Sushi worked its way out...removed the car.  I elected not to do much more there.  I liked the even tone.  Thought it looked nice.

Snapseed's healing tool is terrific.

   When I got home however I wanted a little bit more high key.  I really wanted to make the area glow, and the doll to be THE subject.  So I went into my primary editing program, Capture One 10, and toggled up a few high key presets until I found one I liked.  The high key really made the doll seem like it was glowing.  I added also a little extra contrast, and the colors became slightly surreal and "contrasty."  The end result was a little different than what I envisioned at first, but through trial and error...what my mind was setting up waiting on dinner.

-ehw