Thursday, May 7, 2015

Travel Photography – More Rule Breaking


Want to know just how good your camera's exposure meter really is?



I wanted another image of this room but this time facing directly at the window. Just like the last shot, I wanted a dreamy, high-key type of exposure with the light diffused by the window and shear drapes. I also wanted the rich texture of the wood floor and details of the hats and chest of drawers to be clearly defined. Talk about a high contrast scene.



One way of going about this shot would have been to bracket a few exposures and process the image using an HDR program like Photomatix. But I wanted to see if I could meter off the floor and not completely blow out the window's highlights. I finished this off in Photoshop Elements using Nik's "Glamor Glow" filter to add some warmth to this high-key image.



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Copyright 2009 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with a Canon EOS 50D set on aperture priority (Av) using an EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM hand-held. The exposure was taken at 32mm, f/6.7 for 1/60th of a second at ISO 100 on Lexar Professional UDMA digital film. Post capture processing was done in Lightroom 2 and Photoshop Elements using Nik Software's Color Efex Pro filters. Click on the image above for a larger version.



Posted in Photography Tagged: Canon, Canon 50D, Texas Towns, Travel Photography



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