Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Digging through the old photos

Occasionally I enjoy going through my older photos to see if there is anything I may have overlooked when critiquing my own work. Last night I found this picture:

I took this picture shortly after I started using Marla's Spotmatic II. It was taken on Kodak colour 400ISO film and I tweaked it in Photoshop by desaturating and adding a gradient.

I like this shot as the wheat is bending towards each other to the "crease" to the left of the shot and leads your eye that way. The strong dark lines in the back then pick up and move your eyes to the right of the picture. The wheat is mostly in focus and the strong blur in the background gives more movement to the shot.

I wouldn't know where to start with the EXIF data that is present in digital shots but I'd say the f stop was around 2.8 and the shutter speed possibly in the 1/1000th range.

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