This gallery is a complete chronicle of my 40th year, starting on my birthday in 2008. I posted one photo each day for a year. The photo-a-day project continues in this gallery here.
May 17, 2008; Day 15. Self portrait with the guys of the “Bad Dog Down” yoga group. If you’re into yoga, you’ll recognize that our name is a play on the “downward dog” pose. I thought it might be fun to get a group shot with the new fisheye lens.
The fisheye is not a flattering portrait lens, but it’s fun with group shots since individual people don’t have to be quite as close. Also, if the surroundings fit the subject, it’s nice to include them (mats scattered about on the floor, straps on one wall, blocks on the other).
I didn’t notice what was happening in the mirror until after I got home. If I had seen it in the viewfinder, I almost certainly would have recomposed the shot to eliminate ourselves. But after thinking about it, I’ve decided that if I’m going to embrace the fisheye lens, I need to fill that frame with stuff worth looking at. Here, we’ve got the main shot and the “setup shot” all in the same frame! I wish I had arranged us so that you could see the camera itself better.
Also, I wish I had taken a shot of everyone sitting in a more yoga-like pose. Namaste would have been a good choice. Dolphin would have been a bad choice.
Raw: Exposure 0.3
Raw: Fill Light 5
PS: Color Balance: 15 yellow to blue
PS: Saturation: 20
PS: Unsharp mask: 10-30-0
The fisheye is not a flattering portrait lens, but it’s fun with group shots since individual people don’t have to be quite as close. Also, if the surroundings fit the subject, it’s nice to include them (mats scattered about on the floor, straps on one wall, blocks on the other).
I didn’t notice what was happening in the mirror until after I got home. If I had seen it in the viewfinder, I almost certainly would have recomposed the shot to eliminate ourselves. But after thinking about it, I’ve decided that if I’m going to embrace the fisheye lens, I need to fill that frame with stuff worth looking at. Here, we’ve got the main shot and the “setup shot” all in the same frame! I wish I had arranged us so that you could see the camera itself better.
Also, I wish I had taken a shot of everyone sitting in a more yoga-like pose. Namaste would have been a good choice. Dolphin would have been a bad choice.
Raw: Exposure 0.3
Raw: Fill Light 5
PS: Color Balance: 15 yellow to blue
PS: Saturation: 20
PS: Unsharp mask: 10-30-0
May 17, 2008; Day 15. Self portrait with the guys of the “Bad Dog Down” yoga group. If you’re into yoga, you’ll recognize that our name is a play on the “downward dog” pose. I thought it might be fun to get a group shot with the new fisheye lens.
The fisheye is not a flattering portrait lens, but it’s fun with group shots since individual people don’t have to be quite as close. Also, if the surroundings fit the subject, it’s nice to include them (mats scattered about on the floor, straps on one wall, blocks on the other).
I didn’t notice what was happening in the mirror until after I got home. If I had seen it in the viewfinder, I almost certainly would have recomposed the shot to eliminate ourselves. But after thinking about it, I’ve decided that if I’m going to embrace the fisheye lens, I need to fill that frame with stuff worth looking at. Here, we’ve got the main shot and the “setup shot” all in the same frame! I wish I had arranged us so that you could see the camera itself better.
Also, I wish I had taken a shot of everyone sitting in a more yoga-like pose. Namaste would have been a good choice. Dolphin would have been a bad choice.
Raw: Exposure 0.3
Raw: Fill Light 5
PS: Color Balance: 15 yellow to blue
PS: Saturation: 20
PS: Unsharp mask: 10-30-0
The fisheye is not a flattering portrait lens, but it’s fun with group shots since individual people don’t have to be quite as close. Also, if the surroundings fit the subject, it’s nice to include them (mats scattered about on the floor, straps on one wall, blocks on the other).
I didn’t notice what was happening in the mirror until after I got home. If I had seen it in the viewfinder, I almost certainly would have recomposed the shot to eliminate ourselves. But after thinking about it, I’ve decided that if I’m going to embrace the fisheye lens, I need to fill that frame with stuff worth looking at. Here, we’ve got the main shot and the “setup shot” all in the same frame! I wish I had arranged us so that you could see the camera itself better.
Also, I wish I had taken a shot of everyone sitting in a more yoga-like pose. Namaste would have been a good choice. Dolphin would have been a bad choice.
Raw: Exposure 0.3
Raw: Fill Light 5
PS: Color Balance: 15 yellow to blue
PS: Saturation: 20
PS: Unsharp mask: 10-30-0