Saturday, February 27, 2010

Stupid is as stupid does . . .

It was quite the morning for stupidity. I mis-read the tide table, not only the high/low tide part, but also the date! So when I headed out for a quick walk on the beach this morning, I figured the tide was going out. Wrong. It was almost at its height! I managed to stay dry and cut my walk short. At least I wasn't out there during the tsunami! 

And then I inadvertently set my exposure compensation to underexpose by 2/3 of a stop. I was shooting in bluish shady light to begin with, so my photographs turned out not only blue, but dark blue. Well, good excuse to experiment in Photoshop, right?

I purposely blurred out this photo and overexposed it by 4 stops before doing anything else. And even though this photo was originally of maybe 10 birds, I clipped out just a corner of the photo and blew it up big. Now I've got two big, overexposed, blurred birds. And I like it! And it's given me some other ideas, other things to try with a variety of subjects. We shall see . . . And now, back to work. ©Carol Leigh


3 comments:

Judy Tillson said...

Greet image. Here's to more "stupid" days if this is what you come up with ...

gottago said...

You just can't do it wrong. You continue to (photo)motivate me to look for more, see more and do more.

Another unique and beautiful CL piece of art.

Carol Leigh said...

Thanks, Judy and Linda. Glad I can be of motivational service! -- Carol Leigh