Exercise: Editing.
For this exercise I returned to the batch of pictures I took at Botany Bay, North Kent , on Wednesday 10th. July. As I have written earlier in the blog I have tended to keep images that I am never going to use again. This seemed a good opportunity to practise what I intend to be my new work flow system: download, check, then either re-file of discard.
The images I shot were of three main subjects. The first group was of the sun falling on the white cliffs. The second was of the sun sinking behind a headland. The third was an attempt to capture the image of birds passing across the face of the setting sun.
As I took the images I checked them as they appeared on the cameras rear screen. Each of the sequences had difficult light conditions. The white cliffs were tending to make the camera under expose by attempting to darken the pure white of the chalk. The sunset shots were almost silhouette shots with the sun actually in view. This gave rise me having to ignore both the histogram and the cameras sensors. The only way I could get what I was after was to view the result of each shot and make any necessary adjustments. Obtaining a successful shot of birds crossing the disc of the sun was pure hit and miss. I set the frame and waited until birds approached, hitting the shutter at what I thought was the appropriate moment. Had I the time I would have deletes many of these images then and there.
This was a set of images I already had on my desktop but tried to treat them as a previously unseen file.
As the original file was still on the desk-top I started by making a working copy of the whole file and naming them, Botany Bay 10.07.13, and Botany Bay 10.07.13. copy.
Step one - the technical edit.
I opened the file using the Macs basic browser and found I had 243 images to sort through. Because of the lighting conditions I had encounter at Botany Bay I had many that were wrongly exposed or where the focus poor. These I removed to a To Be Deleted file.
For this exercise I returned to the batch of pictures I took at Botany Bay, North Kent , on Wednesday 10th. July. As I have written earlier in the blog I have tended to keep images that I am never going to use again. This seemed a good opportunity to practise what I intend to be my new work flow system: download, check, then either re-file of discard.
The images I shot were of three main subjects. The first group was of the sun falling on the white cliffs. The second was of the sun sinking behind a headland. The third was an attempt to capture the image of birds passing across the face of the setting sun.
As I took the images I checked them as they appeared on the cameras rear screen. Each of the sequences had difficult light conditions. The white cliffs were tending to make the camera under expose by attempting to darken the pure white of the chalk. The sunset shots were almost silhouette shots with the sun actually in view. This gave rise me having to ignore both the histogram and the cameras sensors. The only way I could get what I was after was to view the result of each shot and make any necessary adjustments. Obtaining a successful shot of birds crossing the disc of the sun was pure hit and miss. I set the frame and waited until birds approached, hitting the shutter at what I thought was the appropriate moment. Had I the time I would have deletes many of these images then and there.
This was a set of images I already had on my desktop but tried to treat them as a previously unseen file.
As the original file was still on the desk-top I started by making a working copy of the whole file and naming them, Botany Bay 10.07.13, and Botany Bay 10.07.13. copy.
Step one - the technical edit.
I opened the file using the Macs basic browser and found I had 243 images to sort through. Because of the lighting conditions I had encounter at Botany Bay I had many that were wrongly exposed or where the focus poor. These I removed to a To Be Deleted file.
Step two - the selects.
I went through the remaining images and made a pen and paper note of those that were worthy of another look. Many were similar and would require closer scrutiny.
Step three - the first selects.
I went through the remaining images and selected a dozen from which I would make the final selection. These I transfered to a First Select file. The remainder were added to the delete file.
Step four - group and review.
I opened up the First Select file and expanded the images for a better look. I also used the quick view facility to get a larger image.
Step five - a final choice.
The final choice of two was difficult as the evenings shoot covered three subject. After some thought I selected two that best overcame the conditions at the time of the shoot and which best gave the feel the that evening on that beach. The picture of Tony looks like a night shot, which was the silhouette look I was after. They are not technically brilliant or artistically dazzling but are not bad for what was an unplanned club shoot.
Tony on the beach.
Birds against the setting sun
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