Nikon d70s: ISO 200, f/3.5, 10s @18mm
I picked up two neat books the other month on daring photography. Now I don’t know how daring photography can be (unless you’re a combat photographer) but the ideas and the techniques really gave me some neat ideas to play around with. And since digital imaging is so much cheaper than film, it doesn’t matter if it comes out crappy.
And the experiments have continued. The other night I did some long exposure photography and came up with some interesting shots. This particular one was processed in Aperture as an infrared image with some minor tweaks here and there to bring out the contrast between the trees and the background.
“Empty Night” © Paul Puglisi
Nikon d70s: ISO 200, f/3.5, 20s @ 18mm
This was processed in Adobe Photoshop Elements to simulate a cyanotype effect from the original shot. Playing around with Elements has been a lot of fun. I have started to learn that photographs, as art, don’t need to be a realistic interpretation of what the sensor captures. Though there are great photographers that do just that, capture reality in ways that make you look at the world from different angles. I like taking those shots as well. But right now I am feeling the pull to experiment with my shots. Both at capture and post capture processing.
“Cyanotype” © Paul Puglisi -Nikon d70s: ISO 200, f/29, 1/5 @ 70mm
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