Perhaps it's that I'm getting older or that I'm in a happy, stable relationship or that is wet and chilly outside, but I'm actually feeling pretty good about spending my Saturday night in the city holed up in my Aunt's apartment eating bing cherries and playing with photoshop. After all, I've spent the past few days catching up with friends, seeing art, running in Central Park, taking photographs of interesting people and even networking with a documentary filmmaker who works with a humanitarian organization in Afghanistan.
| My only regret is that the audio recorder I just bought didn't come until after I'd left Columbia, so I could collect sound to build a story about an affable undercover cop who has befriended a community of elderly Latino domino players, winning their trust and adopting them as a collection of surrogate "Abuelos." |  |
He told me he'd only give me one shot to get the exposure right on the portrait I took of him, but he relented when I overestimated the aperture the first time. I actually tried two more times after that, but the second shot was spot on.
Comments (3)
What a great portrait- I love his camera and how all of the dark and grey tones work together. :)
More NYC photos, please!
Posted by Ivy | June 21, 2009 3:17 PM
Posted on June 21, 2009 15:17
Best guess would be (because the sun was behind the clouds/diffused by buildings/something like that: to use aperture priority and dial it down to negative 1 or 1.3 (the large, dark areas are going to throw off the meter and make it want to turn his black jacket a neutral color, so you have to tell the meter not to do that). Otherwise, f/5.6 and be there.
Didn't you miss me?
Cheers,
David
Posted by David Kennedy | August 20, 2009 10:35 PM
Posted on August 20, 2009 22:35
Of course I missed you!
Aperture priority? But I've been so good about shooting entirely manual all this year. I'm not sure I can handle going back.
Posted by chelle | August 21, 2009 8:56 AM
Posted on August 21, 2009 08:56