Abandoned

The Response: Galaxy Koi — Jessica

This image is lucky to be here — I almost abandoned the initial idea to go to the botanical garden since I had Danny with me. I turned out to be a lot of fun and Danny had fun too, which was nice since he had the ear tube surgery this morning. (Not that the surgery is very taxing – it takes all of five minutes, really!)

I did have one problem with my gear. It is almost impossible to see what I am creating in the field. I think there may be a problem with the software that creates the “bright” multiple exposures. It seems like it’s not getting the exposure correct and I’m ending up with a photo of near black. In Lightroom, I can recover the image but I have to pull the exposure up by 3 to 4 stops and then correct the white and black points. I don’t mind fiddling with the post-processing, but it’s incredibly frustrating while I’m shooting and I getting absolutely zero feedback on how something I’m trying is working out. It makes the process a bit too random for my tastes. Almost making me want to abandon the technique and so back to straight shooting. (Well, not really!)