{"id":337,"date":"2010-10-19T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/?p=337"},"modified":"2010-10-19T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:58:08","slug":"an-exercise-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/2010\/10\/19\/an-exercise-in-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"An Exercise in Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe other day I picked up a copy of The Elements of Photography: Understanding and Creating Sophisticated Images<\/a><\/em> by Angela Faris Belt. Now, my stuffed-to-the-gills bookshelves hardly needed another book (especially another one on composition) but I really liked the way she had exercises at the end of each chapter. I made time yesterday to tackle some of that homework and had a lot of fun with this particular one.<\/p>\n

The assignment was to set your camera to the closest focal length while also opening the apeture to its widest setting. I used my 50 f1.8 and took to my backyard.<\/p>\n

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I was very happy with this one — especially after I added the blue color overlay. Here is its partner:<\/p>\n

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But then, as I was running my mouse over the presets panel in Lightroom, I saw what a certain black and white film preset<\/a> did to the image and I was so wonderfully surprised and thrilled! You know that serendipitous moment when it just clicks. : )<\/p>\n

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and here:<\/p>\n

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It was hard to give up the lovely blues and greens — I do love color — but the effect in black and white is just phenomenal, I think. It’s so moody and soft and ghostly. I think there is a lot more emotion in the black and white.<\/p>\n

I’m very happy with how this exercise turned out and I think I may turn to this technique again and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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