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lens-artists: what is it?

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Sofia invites lens-artist to “think of anything that looks ambiguous, difficult to understand or unusual, look for details instead of the whole thing, conceal what might give away what your subject with editing, but most of all, have fun!”

Looking back through images one finds a self on a journey of exploration. An exploration of the many ways to create images, in and out of camera: long exposure, double exposure, intentional blur, macro, points of view, long exposure combined with double exposure, selective coloring, and the list goes on.

Gallery

1.long exposure – lake, 2 macro/pov – salsifies, 3 edited blur – campus walkway

4. long exposure combined with double exposure – town square, 5. macro – jewelry, 7. dusk light – creek

the sound of loneliness

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Nikon D750    f/6.3    1/50s   35 mm   I00 ISO

Let me introduce you to Hu Ge, one of the top actors in China who has an amazing singing voice.  His role in a series entitled, Nirvana in Fire, has been noted by fans to parallel the leading character’s rise from a tragedy.  In 2006, a serious car accident that took the life of his friend and assistant, resulted in major surgeries which included over a hundred sutures on his face and neck.  It would take him nearly a year to recover.

XDrive Photo Lesson – 12 – Shooting in Raw

For this xdrive photo lesson Raj introduces the reader to raw photography as well as explores the advantages and disadvantages of setting the camera to raw.

Some of the disadvantages of using raw are:

  1. size of files and required storage space
  2. requires editing
  3. sluggish burst mode
  4. software required to process files and convert to jpg
  5. sharing images while traveling

On the positive side, raw images allow the photographer to:

  1. recover areas in the image that may be over or under exposed.
  2. easily adjust white balance.
  3. make use of high-end image editing software
  4. ensure that original raw images are not destroyed during the editing process.

Nikon D750   f/7.1   1/400s   35 mm   ISO 400

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sample of raw image

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raw adjusted image

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edited image in Nik’s Color Effects

The second set of images were created using:

Nikon D750   f/6.3   1/6s   40 mm   ISO 400

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sample of raw image

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raw adjusted image

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3 raw images edited using Nik’s HDR software