Digging up the Past…
Been a little while since I posted folks…crazy year trying to juggle work with the birth of twins last Christmas. Anyway, I’m back and looking forward to getting the blog back into gear.
So to get things back into full swing I thought I’d share this little story about an image that I took back in mid 2009 in Provence. Up until very recently, the RAW file just sat there in Lightroom, un-processed, amongst all the other sparkly finished files. For the life of me I just didn’t know how to post process the file. We were shooting the wild horses of the Camargue during a workshop, and that particular year we had a cloudy morning for this shoot. The year before we had sun, and so shooting with the horses back-lit gave a lot of contrast, seperation between the horses and their background, and lit up all of the water being splashed around. No such luck in 2009 – overcast was what we had. We tried to get right in front of the horses and low down so as to shoot them with the sky behind, rather than bushes. I think it was the best approach, although the guy next to me managed to almost write-off his D3…(if you’re reading John, sorry about that!) (more…)
Posted November 26, 2010