Friday, April 14, 2006 - I'm thinking

I'm thinking

13 Comments:

Blogger 壁虎 said...

This is another candid shot from my school's orientation program four days ago. Taken on the same day as I'm telling you my dream.

Did some advance editing on the eyes to sharpen it. I'm quite bad at controlling the focus you see. Auto level and auto contrast was used as well. Some additional curves, satuaration, and selective colour adjustment were involved. Colour adjustment was use to up the gradient on the face after desaturation on the overall.

So here's the original picture.

taken: 4/10/2006 1.42PM
camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS (Prosumer camera)
focal length: 59.7mm
aperture: f/3.5
shutter speed: 1/6s
exposure compensation: 0 step
metering: pattern
flash: not fired
image quality: JPEG
cropping: no

Friday, April 14, 2006 6:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good shot & work. Isn't contrast a bit much on the face? I think focus is ok, unless you wanted to get the lcd displays sharp.

Friday, April 14, 2006 12:12:00 PM  
Blogger 壁虎 said...

Thanks Emré and Ash!

Emré, I felt that the contrast was ok though. The focus had been processed with gaussian blur on the laptops in photoshop. Oh, and I created a softness effect too. :)

Saturday, April 15, 2006 2:01:00 AM  
Blogger 壁虎 said...

Sorry Emré. Yeah, I noticed what you ment by "contrast a bit much on the face". My fault. You're right, it's abit too much. Thanks for pointing out!

Saturday, April 15, 2006 6:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

LOL nice capture

Saturday, April 15, 2006 10:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I like the colours and the atmosphere.

Saturday, April 15, 2006 10:51:00 PM  
Blogger 壁虎 said...

Thanks àsìkò and Oscense!! :D

Sunday, April 16, 2006 5:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good candid shot. I think the lack of focus is alright. But spot metering on the guy's face will help to make the capture more 'exposure focus'.

Monday, April 17, 2006 11:06:00 AM  
Blogger 壁虎 said...

Imran, thanks for the tips on spot metering. I guess my next shot would probably gets better with it.

Monday, April 17, 2006 1:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The word "geek" just happens to spring to mind everytime I look at this shot :)

Suby

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:06:00 PM  
Blogger 壁虎 said...

So it's a successful shot? Thanks Suby! Hehe~!

Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Since my boyfriend is an example of utter geekiness, I can totally relate to this picture. Very nice moment captured and well framed.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:04:00 PM  
Blogger 壁虎 said...

Thanks Ella! Hehe!

Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:57:00 PM  

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