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Jolly good stuff tonight. The exploration of darkness continues but now with some solidifying of purpose. There are some hints towards what I want to achieve in the night. A restrained, painterly look is taking precedence. The subject remains: light. 229 photos.
- I shot around some suburbs (slums really) and it felt like I was foraging around in people’s homes. Everybody knows each other in these neighbourhoods and an unknown face stands out. Even so I worked at my own pace and got the shots that I wanted. Again, it will be interesting to see the affect this has on my day shooting.
- Working so close to people’s homes, requires a different style of shooting that what I use on the streets in daylight, around more commercial, more impersonal places. One has to be slower, more considered. Make more eye contact. Smile more. I act absent minded. A bit dumb. I stop, look around. When I take a photo I take it quickly still. But there’s a lot more reshooting and I just do it slowly, methodically. I was approached a lot more on this walk and I usually reply that “it’s for school, for an art project”. They let me go at that.
- As opposed to changing ISO and aperture the most when shooting daylight on the street where shutter speed is the most important thing. At night exposure compensation becomes most important. I think at night I should assign the back wheel to that rather than ISO. It is pretty hard to predict what the shutter speed is going to be, but I reshoot a lot more so it’s not such a problem. I should pay more attention the info display, but usually that isn’t much of a help as it will just say ‘Low’ for the shutter speed and only at the point of taking the shot report correctly.
- I played around a little with the WB to preset it to 2,700K for a really yellow tungstan shot. Actually it took away too much of the yellow from the scene and wasn’t faithful to what I was seeing. Auto WB seems fine for now.
- I wrote in the previous photo note about the painting type photographs that I’m getting. I’m happy that these look good visually, and I’m getting a really good response from people. But I wonder if the shots are just a little empty. I haven’t really explained to myself why I’m doing them beyond they look good. But maybe that’s enough.
Why tomorrow will be better
- Assign back wheel to exposure compensation as that is what’s most used during the night. Although having two different settings at two different times will make it difficult for my muscle memory. Can it handle that level of complexity?
- I need to spend more time out of there. I’m a little sick with various ailments at the moment which makes it difficult to be out there for a long time but I have to make more of an effort. Shooting close to home has the constant temptation to come back.
- Continue on with the black painterly theme.
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