Glorious Grey!
I wrote this foolishness to get across the point that most beginning photographers (there are many who read this blog) don’t get. Once you understand what your camera is trying to do, you’ve made quantum leaps in getting it to do what you want it to, and not the other way around. You become master. It becomes slave. Understand, of course, that I’m referring to luminosity, not hue. The paper was actually a brownish tone, but when I changed it to gray scale, this is the result. Also understand that it is not necessarily that the camera doesn’t trust you, but that it always seeks a mid-tone, and allows you to compensate and manipulate the results with the controls at your disposal.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“And then I see You there
With Your arms open wide and You try to embrace me
These lonely tears I cry
They keep me in chains and I wish they’d release me
Cold is the night but
Colder still is the heart made of stone, turned from clay
And if you follow me
You’ll see all the black, all the white fade to grey”
- Jars of Clay
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