Don Ellis
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Alley Hat
I like to wander down alleys, see the backs of restaurants and shops, discover what’s being discarded and what’s being prepared for lunch. I decided shooting the pork chops soaking in a tin basin was a little too close to the bone because the pork chop owner was so close, but I did find other things along this one tiny alley…
Like a hat…
And an oil drum… but whether the oil was for the generator or the deep-fat fryer, I don’t know…
And the cart of a literal bag lady, very nicely arranged, umbrella at the ready. What impressed me about this shot was the dynamic range between the shadows and the white bags in direct sunlight. The only thing I did was to use Highlight +5 in Photoshop to bring out a little more detail in the white bag, but at least there was detail there to reveal. I’ve been using the camera with no exposure compensation, after years of dialling in -1/3 on all the Canon G-series cameras. Perhaps I’ll try that setting next. In my experience, it’s easier to recover detail from the shadows than the highlights, so I tend to underexpose slightly… click for full-size image…
And then there’s me and the mop and the movie star… it’s very subtle advertising when it’s in an alley… click to see more of me …
Don
P.S. These are all Sigma DP2 shots and I leave all full-size shots unsharpened so you can see the camera’s native output. Everything is shot in RAW and converted in SSP 3.5.
I like to wander down alleys, see the backs of restaurants and shops, discover what’s being discarded and what’s being prepared for lunch. I decided shooting the pork chops soaking in a tin basin was a little too close to the bone because the pork chop owner was so close, but I did find other things along this one tiny alley…
Like a hat…
And an oil drum… but whether the oil was for the generator or the deep-fat fryer, I don’t know…
And the cart of a literal bag lady, very nicely arranged, umbrella at the ready. What impressed me about this shot was the dynamic range between the shadows and the white bags in direct sunlight. The only thing I did was to use Highlight +5 in Photoshop to bring out a little more detail in the white bag, but at least there was detail there to reveal. I’ve been using the camera with no exposure compensation, after years of dialling in -1/3 on all the Canon G-series cameras. Perhaps I’ll try that setting next. In my experience, it’s easier to recover detail from the shadows than the highlights, so I tend to underexpose slightly… click for full-size image…
And then there’s me and the mop and the movie star… it’s very subtle advertising when it’s in an alley… click to see more of me …
Don
P.S. These are all Sigma DP2 shots and I leave all full-size shots unsharpened so you can see the camera’s native output. Everything is shot in RAW and converted in SSP 3.5.
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