Photographer’s Notes Sometimes images come from the strangest places.
Take this one for example. Ten years ago, or a bit more, my wife and I moved to Madrid. We furnished our flat ‘on the cheap,’ mostly at Ikea. One of the things we bought was a set of cheap glasses. I bond with the strangest things, but I loved these glasses and we brought them back with us.
So I’m sitting here at my Mac, editing commercial photos for a client, with a glass of ice water at my elbow … the glass is one of the cheap Ikea glasses. The light strikes it oddly and I see an abstract image waiting to be taken.
Down to my studio (eh, closet) with its professional (eh, flash) lights. I mount my favorite macro lens and shoot a bunch of lighting treatments. None of these actually realize what I saw but I like this one especially … soft and hard … focused and blurred. I like it.
Voters will possibly disagree.
Post Processing • Convert from Raw (PSCS5 Camera Raw)
• Reduce Noise (Neat Image)
• Dodge & Burn (PSCS5 Overlay layer)
• Dust Off (PSCS5 Clone Layer)
• Resize (onOne Perfect Resize)
• Crop (PSCS5)
• Sharpen (PSCS5 USM)
• Save for Web (PSCS5)
Camera Data • Date: 2011.09.24
• Camera: Nikon D3
• Lens: Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D
• ISO: 200
• Aperture: f/3.3
• Shutter: 1/200
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