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This is the first image that was meaningful. This is our cook and cleaning lady, called affectionately "Aunty"





All comments gratefully received.

Thanks - Hugh
 
nice portrait!

Please remember that the CCD in the TL500 is always recording full information about the colors of the scene.
 
Joe - you are absolutely right, I should have done, but this was not a studied photo, I had to chase her around the garden to get this! On to the next time, and keep the lens wide open ......

Thanks for the comment - Hugh
 
Well done Hugh, a great captures and a deep portrait.

Shows that there are real people in Afghanistan and not just insurgents.

--
Tom Caldwell
I am always trying ...
 
Diopter said:
nice portrait!

Please remember that the CCD in the TL500 is always recording full information about the colors of the scene.
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Yes but b&w often has a deeper meaning of its own. I like this b&w conversion.

I remember well taking b&w in a restaurant at high ISO with a Ricoh camera, it was doing well. The waiter asked to see what I was capturing and the thing I remember best was his face when he saw they were 'only' b&w. The photographs are forgotten his look was priceless. What sort of toy camera was I using that couldn't capture colour?

Bravo Hugh, your b&w imaging is fabulous.

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Tom Caldwell
I am always trying ...
 
Nice photo - considering that you had to photograph her on the the run, she looks quite at ease. She is an interesting subject.
 
CCDs don't record the full color information of the scene. Each little photosite records the amount of red, green, or blue light that hits it.

But after some fancy processing this is made into a full-color image :p.
Diopter said:
nice portrait!

Please remember that the CCD in the TL500 is always recording full information about the colors of the scene.
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Yes, dialing down the ISO would have opened up the aperture.

Nonetheless, adding a Gaussian blur to the background will help.
jotor said:
I like the photo--especially the cleaning rag--but wonder why you didn't open the lens up to get the background more out of focus. That ability is why I bought one.

Joe
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Diopter said:
Tom Caldwell said:
Yes but b&w often has a deeper meaning of its own. I like this b&w conversion.
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I like the photo too, but tomorrow I may need the full color info.
Please see a side discussion about that:

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home# ! permalink.php?story_fbid=161942377159584&id=1820140720
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Yes, but we have no argument here. The camera captures in colour in jpg and you can convert afterwards to B&W in camera or externally. RAW images are always colour so no one loses the colour version unless they chose to throw it away.

On Ricoh you could chose to shoot and store jpg files in B&W only and therefore live on the edge, but their RAW files are always colour and can be viewed in camera as B&W only if that has been chosen. Nevertheless the colour image is there to be resurrected. Similarly if you chose to shoot B&W on a Canon dslr (my knowledge) then put the files on software and miraculously the colour is still there!

Tom Caldwell
I am always trying ...
 
Tom - thank you for your comments on the B&W. The conversion was done in Aperture 2 with midrange Luminescence adjustment. No crop. Otherwise straight out of the camera, although later I will try the in camera B&W.

Hugh
 
hugh2009 said:
This is the first image that was meaningful. This is our cook and cleaning lady, called affectionately "Aunty"
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Nice shot. It works nicely in B&W.

Will she allow you to print a picture of her to give to a family member?

How do you communicate with Aunty? English, Farsi, Dari, Pashto?

--
All the best,
Jim

Photographers take pictures, not cameras.
 
hugh2009 said:
This is the first image that was meaningful. This is our cook and cleaning lady, called affectionately "Aunty"

All comments gratefully received.

Thanks - Hugh
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it looks even better by only adding more contrast. out of camera b/w are pretty dull.

if you have photoshop it is under image-adjustments-brightness/contrast. +80 contrast looks pretty good on it.
 
hugh2009 said:
Tom - thank you for your comments on the B&W. The conversion was done in Aperture 2 with midrange Luminescence adjustment. No crop. Otherwise straight out of the camera, although later I will try the in camera B&W.

Hugh
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Yes you should Hugh - you don't lose the colour image in the process if it does not work as well as you had hoped. I like your B&W images.

--
Tom Caldwell
I am always trying ...
 
Thanks for the comments ...... no, I only communicate in sign language, but that is enough to make sure I get my breakfast, hot water in a bucket in the bathroom, and "can you do my washing please" ..... what else do you need!

Hugh
 
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