Ian Bramham's Photoblog
A Stormy Day
Posted by Ian Bramham (Manchester, United Kingdom) on 7 February 2008 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.
This is a photo from Morecambe on the NW coast of England. It was taken last week, about an hour or so after dawn just before a weather front arrived and turned evrything dark grey....it was so windy that I could only just keep the camera still enough to get this shot.
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There's a photo that I've posted here of a streetlamp and steps at night. It's one of my favourite photos with my new DSLR. I've submitted it for publication in JPG magazine. You can vote for it's inclusion if you can manage to get through the registration process
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@Twelvebit: I tend to do all my adjustments by eye.....after all that's how the final photo will be judged.
The only time i look at a histogram is at the very beginning of post processing to see if it could do with a tweak to expand the levels. I deliberately underexpose most of my shots (1/2 a stop maybe) to help preserve highlights and sometimes the histgram stops short of the right hand side in which case I'll expand it to full width with levels adjustment.
After that I don't look at the histogram again. I know it's photographic heresy :-) but I tend not to worry too much if there's just a small area of blown highlight.
I remember when I "learnt" art at school the teacher used to encourage us to use the natural white of the page instead of actually painting a white colour as he said it was a purer colour....I didn't really understand what he was saying then but now I do see and I think sometimes a blown highlight on a photo has the same effect of setting the rest of the tones and colours into relief and making them seem stronger and more vibrant than they would otherwise.
@danthro: Thanks danthro...that's a lovely compliment!
@Alfredo J. Martiz J.: Thanks very much Alfreo!
@amy: Thanks very much Amy.....I nearly didn't process this shot as it didn't seem that special at the time. It was only when I looked at it in B&W that I decided it was worth posting.
Nikon D40
1/125 second
F/5.6
ISO 200
22 mm (35mm equiv.)
