After my initial disappointment of not becoming a Sith Warrior (hehehe I’m a Sci-Fi fan too), I continued reading this week’s assignment, Shooting on the Dark Side, I quickly realised this is something I instinctively do; apparently I’m a little strange! (Nothing new there, right?)
Now, how cool is all that detail? Granted it is not glaring bright sunshine, but the light coming from those clouds and the deep shadows of the old shed serve the purpose here.
OK So no real bright extreme light either, but you aren’t supposed to shoot from a really dark room into bright light are you? I still find you can retain more of the image and get a sense of depth and interest by recovering some, but not all of the shadows.
Still want more light? OK Well how about this, actually used a different method, but the same end result.
Thanks Mitch (this week is very enlightening – sorry!), perhaps I am a Sith Warrior, “follow to the dark side you will, no?”
Til next time, happy snapping…..
-Julz
Julie Powell - Photographer & Graphic Artist 
These days with RAW and something like LR you can recover an amazing amount from the shadows. I went to a workshop recently and they counselled AGAINST the shoot to the right theory thats so popular. They put their faith in LR and edit the image to the right to get it light and bright and balance the histogram that way and reckon its the ideal way to process images for professional print and you don’t need to calibrate your monitor either!
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Mmmmm I don’t mean to sound dumb, but you lost me here. Pls explain a little further?
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Ok so I just looked up shoot to the right, now I know WHAT that means….does that mean I did good boss? Lol
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🙂 So “shoot to the right” is one way of approaching exposing your images, the aim is to make sure you have enough detail in your blacks and shadows without blowing out your whites too much.
At the workshop I attended, they said if you do that, then when you edit you leave yourself no room to adjust further ie moving to the right adds brightness. There are cirucumstances where shooting to the right may not be far enough but because you have, its difficult to further adjust the histogram to try and get the better exposure.
It made a lot of sense to me because I don’t shoot to the right, I shoot to the conditions I am in and using their technique I have seent a noticeable difference in the brightness of my imagesbut not blowing out any detail.
So many different ways to do this photography stuff and they are ALL right one way or another 🙂
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Many thanks for clarification. I have heard the term a few times just recently and felt super dumb asking, but I finally got off my butt and did some research…….apparently I rarely shoot to the right lol. It’s all such a learning curve, just when you think you have everything under control, you realise you know nothing! PS. I have finally started the PS Artistry course………WOW so many cool little tips and tricks!
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Well feel free to ask me anytime, I don’t know everything but am beginning to realise I know a reasonable amount in comparison to where some people are on their journey (there was a young guy in the workshop who didn’t even know what RAW was!)
My philosophy is if you don’t know something you are not usually stupid, just uneducated, and I can sometimes help with that 🙂
So glad you have started the PA course, yes its amazing the amount of useful information you glean from the course. Look forward to seeing your experiments!
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thanks…………and thanks
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Awesome job, Julie! And yes, my take is to also not expose to the right. Instead, protect your highlights, just like I said in the the post for today.
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Wonderful shots. I especially like the one inside the warehouse. Very cool.
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thanks
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