PAD 117 - A Leaf Out of Damien's Book!

[Mike Farley]

Day 117 and I went on a camera forum meeting at London Bridge. I found these people eating in a shaft of light at Borough Market and thought back to Damien Demolder's Wratten Lecture. Near the beginning he demonstrated a technique to isolate figures by deliberately underexposing when they are lit by sunlight and the rest of the scene is in shade. The camera's centre weighted metering did a good job of exposing for the highlights, which is just as well as they moved before I could dial in any underexposure.

The girl needed a bit more exposure, which I applied using the Adjustment Brush as part of the Raw conversion in Lightroom. I also needed to create a darker layer in Photoshop to remove some lighter areas in the background and used a layer mask to rub through over the figures.

Leica M9
Elmar-M 50 f/2.8
1/180 sec
f/4.8
ISO 160

[davidc]

Which camera forum, out of interest?

[Rose]

Nice one Mike It's something I want to experiment with too.

[Mike Farley]

Which camera forum, out of interest?

The clue is in the camera I used, as the forum is dedicated to the one make.

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-for ... shard.html

[davidc]

Did you go up the Shard as well?

[Mike Farley]

Not on this occasion as I thought I would get feedback from others and the weather had not been too promising beforehand. Those who did go up gave good reports, so it seems to be something that is worth doing. The only proviso is that weekends seem to sell out several days ahead, so it is a £25 gamble with the rain gods.