I am still behind on the 52 week challenge, however, I have decided
to just pick up with the current week and continue on from there. Eventually, I will go back to the weeks I
missed. This week’s challenge was an artistic metal shoot. Initially, I wanted to do something rusty and
falling apart, like you would find in a junk yard. However, I do not know of any good junk
yards, so I started looking around the apartment and settled on the vintage typewriter
from the 1950’s. I focused on the metal type
hammers.
To set up for this shoot was simple. I set the typewriter up on a white piece of mat board, and used a single flash mounted on a light stand with a boom arm so I could position it directly above the type hammers or angled to the of the type hammers. On my camera, I used a radio trigger to trigger the flash and 60mm macro lens to focus on the hammers. The camera settings were ISO 400 with an F22 aperture, a 1/250s shutter, and a flash power of 1/32.
The first photo shown is the original. The flash was positioned to the side of the typewriter hammers and set at 1/32 power. The photo looks good out of camera; however, I tweaked it by cropping the photo to make it long and narrow. I then adjusted the white balance using auto in light room, then adjusted the exposure, up the clarity to 32, used a strong contrast, and increased the sharpness to 70 and the luminance to 20. I also adjusted for lens aberration. Finally, I converted the whole thing to black and white using one of my several presets. This makes for a more dramatic final image.
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| Original |
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| Final Image |
The second image I only did minimal editing. The settings for this photo were the same as
for the previous photo. The main
difference is I changed my viewing angle to the type hammers. For this image adjusted the white balance
using auto in light room, then adjusted the exposure, up the clarity to 32, used a strong contrast,
and increased the sharpness to 70 and the luminance to 20. I also adjusted for
lens aberration. I then applied the HDR
preset to the image, to produce the final image.
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| Original |
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| Final Image |
Overall, I am very happy with how these images turned
out. I like the darkness of the images,
because makes you focus on the letters on the hammers, also the images have a
bit of an abstract look. You can see all the final images
here.
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