Last week's trip to Disney I decided to take a different approach to the photography - after having just taken 500+ photos during Mousefest of all the rides, parks, landscapes, nightshots, and characters, I thought this trip should be much more spare. So I looked for the odd or random scenes or shots that caught my eye, and tried to capture them as I saw them in my mind's eye. Feel free to critique or comment - I was out having fun and trying something a bit different.
Sitting in the France pavilion, behind the Guerlain store, the light hitting the pink trees by the bridge to England caught my attention...a good bit of zoom required; I tried to capture more the textures than the 'landscape' elements of the scene:
Also while there, this lovely French girl in costume walked out of the store on her way to a break...I had the camera down by the ground playing around with perspective with the leaves, and decided to snap when she entered frame:
Here, I couldn't resist the opportunity to photograph the pretty Chinese woman standing in the China exhibit. This was taken from the Chinese garden:
This was an interesting post-processing challenge - I had taken a picture just before this one metered on the sunset of the Stave Church silhouette. When the Norwegian girl turned and looked towards me, I mockingly pointed the camera in the air towards her and pretended to snap the shutter, then gave her the 'ooh la la' OK sign - all in jest. She smiled, and I left. However, in my mock shot, I had actually snapped the shutter, metered off the sunset behind (since I wasn't really aiming). The result was a silhouette shot of all foreground elements, badly crooked horizon, and no girl...a throwaway shot. But when I got home, the challenge bug hit me, and I wanted to see exactly how much could be recovered from the shot (with RAW, this would have been easy...but with JPEG, NOT!). I ran it through Helicon noiseware, rotated the shot to level and cropped, created a duplicate layer in screen mode, then duplicated the screen layer 5 more times. I erased the sky out of 4 of the duplicate layers to restore color to it, then merged all layers, boosted contrast, and resaturated. I know it's not a great shot - but there is something off and surreal about the look that was kind of interesting to me, and it was fun just to try to get a shot out of nothing! I was very surprised how much detail was lurking in the shadows:
And finally, just some fall colored leaves against a clean sky, noticed while having a daquiri near Morocco:
Sitting in the France pavilion, behind the Guerlain store, the light hitting the pink trees by the bridge to England caught my attention...a good bit of zoom required; I tried to capture more the textures than the 'landscape' elements of the scene:
Also while there, this lovely French girl in costume walked out of the store on her way to a break...I had the camera down by the ground playing around with perspective with the leaves, and decided to snap when she entered frame:
Here, I couldn't resist the opportunity to photograph the pretty Chinese woman standing in the China exhibit. This was taken from the Chinese garden:
This was an interesting post-processing challenge - I had taken a picture just before this one metered on the sunset of the Stave Church silhouette. When the Norwegian girl turned and looked towards me, I mockingly pointed the camera in the air towards her and pretended to snap the shutter, then gave her the 'ooh la la' OK sign - all in jest. She smiled, and I left. However, in my mock shot, I had actually snapped the shutter, metered off the sunset behind (since I wasn't really aiming). The result was a silhouette shot of all foreground elements, badly crooked horizon, and no girl...a throwaway shot. But when I got home, the challenge bug hit me, and I wanted to see exactly how much could be recovered from the shot (with RAW, this would have been easy...but with JPEG, NOT!). I ran it through Helicon noiseware, rotated the shot to level and cropped, created a duplicate layer in screen mode, then duplicated the screen layer 5 more times. I erased the sky out of 4 of the duplicate layers to restore color to it, then merged all layers, boosted contrast, and resaturated. I know it's not a great shot - but there is something off and surreal about the look that was kind of interesting to me, and it was fun just to try to get a shot out of nothing! I was very surprised how much detail was lurking in the shadows:
And finally, just some fall colored leaves against a clean sky, noticed while having a daquiri near Morocco:
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Amazing! 