Introduction:
Though it was very bright outside, the porch overhang diffused the light naturally eliminating shadows and harshness normally associated with bright sunlight. Perfect lighting for the candid shot I was hoping for, as Max and I talked.
Photo Tech:
The f/2.8 70-200mm lens was zoomed to 100mm for this composition. Though it was bright - the brightness of the white bench would trick the onboard CPU to underexpose the shot. I set the [exposure compensation] to +1/3 for all the frames captured and the aperture to f/4.5. Being in [Aperture Priority] mode, the camera picks the shutter speed to match my f/4.5 aperture setting. I shot about 10 frames capturing this one image as the keeper. Notice, I left a lot of space to Max's left; we want to convey a sense of the space or perspective to the viewer. The view recognizes Max is hanging out; knees up and his position in the corner of this, wide, three person porch swing.
Post Production:
As always, to properly convert a color image to a black & white rendering, first adjust the color image that best represents what you want - normally we want to capture what we experienced at the time of the original exposure. Sometimes we need to adjust the white balance, brightness and overall contrast - I used basic Dodge & Burn techniques in CS5 and manually color corrected the scene to eliminate a little color cast. Because I was not able to completely tone-down the red color cast that bothered me - I desaturated the color just a little; lessening the effect of color cast.
The BW conversion was completed using Efex Pro 2 using a yellow filter. No other exposure modifications was applied.
As always, please, contact me with questions-comments. Have a great week!
Best regard's,
Lance
