February 10th: Maya through a chair
The sun peeked through the clouds a bit this morning and, playing with the dark bark from the rain, made interesting shapes. I took 35 pictures this morning but expected I would take many more in the afternoon. But I didn’t, so those from the brief spurt this morning stand for the whole day.
This picture of Maya might very well be one that I forget about after a few days but there is a little spark of something in it that says it will hold my attention longer. We’ll see.
Shooting and processing notes
Took this with the 17-40 F4.0 L at 40mm, f4, 1/15, ISO 800. By some mysterious ability, Maya has learned to freeze in position when she hears the beep of the focus lock and hold that position until she hears the shutter click. I have no idea how she learned it but she’s like a model when I have the camera out, freezing long enough for me to take a picture, then moving to another pose for the next shot. I converted this to black-and-white in LightZone rather than Lightroom. I slid the color balance over towards blue (to simulate a blue filter) and dialed up the strength a bit to darken the overall tone. Added a bit of sharpening and that’s it.
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