Frankly, I don’t know how I managed to shoot as much as I did this week, since order-wise, this has been the busiest week since last Christmas. But of course, I was moving around also, hand-delivered a few prints and took tripod / camera with me (which was when I shot this one) and I was getting more and more fascinated by the whole HDR thing.
At any rate, I headed off to Fedex store on the corner with as many packages as I could carry. Came back and fell into a deep sleep. There are still orders in the box, but they are recent so I have a little time to myself.
Tomorrow is Mermaid Day parade and the weather, for the first time in a long time will be good; but I’ve shot that thing so many times; and I have to say, I don’t know if I’m going to do it again unless I have some new idea for it. It actually could be an interesting place to do people HDR shots since there will be a lot of modeling (striking poses) going on (no movement). But the business side of me does jump in with the quip that I have never sold a single shot of Coney Island no matter what was going on there.
We’ll see. Here’s the redo of the Barber Shop. Yes, I photoshopped out, partly, this one bit of a sign which annoyed the heck out of me. It’s that sign of a face or whatever in a box on the left that I made to look like a vent or a grill of some sort.
I suppose there’s some ethic about Photoshopping images, but I do it fairly often if the shot is non-documentary. In other words, sometimes a customer tells me that they need a print but they don’t want that hotel sign in the shot. No problem. On the other hand, I wouldn’t change the imagery of a street shot. That doesn’t seem fair. Yes, I will photoshop a street shot in terms of tone and all that – but not subject.
Oh, and here’s the original Barber Shop.
Someone had asked to see the color version:
How interesting. The colour image is really
unremarkable but once rendered into b & w
it looks like the kind of shot Irving Penn
was taking during the 1940s.
Your deemphasising of the sign is a really
nice touch.
Stephen
Maybe you’ve already covered this somewhere, but I was just wondering if you use a Canon Picture Style when you are shooting at all? I’ve heard if you shoot in Neutral you really can maximize your range in post? Any comments?
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I actually shoot with Monochrome mode so that I see the image on the LCD in B&W. If you are shooting RAW, it really doesn’t matter what the picture style you use. What does matter though, is what you choose in Lightroom or Photoshop Raw Conversion – i.e. faithful, neutral, 4.4 etc… each camera will pull up a different list of calibration styles – and they will have different effects on how much data is preserved if you are converting to a PSD or Tiff file. But again, it doesn’t matter at all in terms of what mode you shoot in UNLESS you are shooting jpgs.