365/65 Color Accent/7

Tomorrow's theme is "Something Old", which will be a piece of cake, since I live in one of this country's oldest cities. Today's is of a local construction sign. Don't try this at home unless you know how to get around the sRGB color space limitations, because no matter what you do, this particular shade of orange is guaranteed to blow the reds.

In ACR, after you open the file for initial adjustments, increase the "Recovery" to 30. If your reds are back in the normal range, you're now done. If not, go to the "HSL/Grayscale" tab, and in there, select the "Luminance" tab. Pull back on the red and oranges. Do the same in the "Saturation" tab. Make these two adjustments until the histogram is just back in to the non-blowing range. You'll have to add a levels and brightness/saturation adjustment layer to bring the orange colors back to their original (apparent) brightness, but keep an eye on your histogram display to make sure you don't end up blowing the channels again.

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/2.0, 1/5000sec and ISO 100.

365/64 Color Accent/6

I stole this from Nikki after she posted her "Quack". Except the light. That's all mine. And the piggy bank. Well, I kinda just took the idea, but who's counting :-P

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/2.0, 1/250sec and ISO 100. Bounced flash @ 0EV compensation.

365/63 Color Accent/5

Someone decided to add a twist to this week. I'm not going to go into this at the moment, but suffice it to say, it does add a challenge to the theme. My OM-10's camera strap (when they still made nice camera straps at Olympus) has just a nudge of blue, accenting the black.

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/2.0, 1/250, ISO 100. Flash bounced @ +2.0EV

365/62 Color Accent/4

Well, it's a color accent, isn't it? And it's not like you can keep your eyes away from it, and now that you're looking, you're probably wondering how something can both have perfect focus and be out of focus. The DOF didn't quite cover the whole "Thing", so while it's perfectly in focus, something is way off, on purpose, just to keep you asking questions.

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/2.8, 1/250sec and ISO 100. Flash bounced off the ceiling @ +2.0EV.

365/61 Color Accent/3

An outside picture as promised! Well, it's not in a building, and it's a photo, but that's about the extent of the creativity today. It's a busy day, what can I say.

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/3.5, 1/250sec and ISO 100.

365/60 Color Accent/2

Day 60! The past 2 months flew by! Looking back at all the photos I've posted here, I've made a good amount of progress. It's always really cool to see how much a person learns when they do projects like this!

So today I grabbed this green heart shaped container with M&Ms in it, and randomly placed a candy heart in it. Instant accent color! I think tomorrow I should look for accent colors outside instead of creating my own, anybody can create a photo under controlled circumstances, it's much harder to use natural scenery to achieve the same.

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/2.8, 1/250sec and ISO 100. Flash bounced into an umbrella overhead @ 1/16th power, further reduced using a paper tissue (flash was putting out way too much light, even at its lowest setting, with the umbrella raised all the way to the ceiling).

I'm currently working on a little article about the inner workings of dynamic range and how digital cameras are different from our eyes in respect to exposure. Keep an eye out and when I post it, grab a cup or two of coffee, it'll be a long one!

365/59 Color Accent/1

There's a lot left to interpretation with this week's theme, so I'm going to take a best guess and hope that this is what was meant when the theme was announced. A plate with blue markings on it and blue beads on it for the bokeh-background.

50mm f/2.0 @ f/2.8, 1/250sec and ISO 100. Flash bounced into umbrella directly overhead @ 1/16th power.