I have no idea how pictures I grabbed on the Blue Line from my phone, ended up in my Media Library on WordPress, or why I can only put text in this caption box when using images from Media Library in a post, or how to get rid of this dumb caption box, which is ugly and out of place with this theme. Hmmm.
photo ©2009 Rena Katinas
Only weirdos and degenerates don’t love red shoes. On a side note, thank you Moll for being six feet tall and always willing to model for me!
This shot would have been useless if it had not been for Adobe Lightroom and that I switched to shooting in RAW format that day. As I was heading towards the subway, I thought I’d grab a quick shot across Daley Plaza. I metered for the sky, which left everything else black. My second shot, meant to expose for the architecture was ruined by a bus. I was without a tripod, so getting another shot in perfect registration wasn’t going to happen. Plus I was running late and needed to get home so I could get ready to see the new Star Trek movie, so I figured the shot was lost.
I couldn’t toss such a cool sky and imported it into Adobe Lightroom any way. Once it was in my library, I made a second virtual copy and brought out the mid-tones and highlights. I left the original copy with the exposed sky alone. I exported both copies to Photoshop, and opened them separately. It was easiest (laziest) to magic wand the black buildings silhouettes, saving the selection for use with both files. Then it was just a matter of pasting the sky into the second image.
It’s definitely not perfect, an image THAT underexposed, really has no business being corrected to that level in Lightroom, there is some color fringing on the edges that may have been correctable, or not. At least now I know that in a pinch, when I’m caught without my tripod, I can still sandwich “multiple” images, with just one (hopefully better exposed) RAW image and Adobe Lightroom.
The original image on the left, extremely underexposed for the sky, and the adjusted virtual copy on the right-a real testament to Adobe Lightroom.
Finally a brand new DSLR for me, yay! The menu system is more complex than my Olympus, so I’ve some reading and test shooting to do. My Olympus isn’t going into the dustbin just yet, it still takes great macro shots with the macro convertor lens. Plus it’s pretty sensitive to infrared light for a non-modded camera, so it’ll still come in handy.
My friend John and I saw this guy, standing in front of the Armitage-Western-Milwaukee Walgreens. John isn’t gay and I’m not into overly-tanned, shiny guys, but it’s really hard not to notice those glowing orange shorts.
photos courtesy of John Clark III ©2009
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