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The Eye

     Today is a blah day. So you get a photo I took this summer while I was still in London. The photo was originally over-exposed (still is of course). I readjusted my settings after this photo – which is difficult to get a good read on in bright daylight. I find that the brightness of the LCD display can be deceptive when I am trying to get a gauge on the exposure of my photos – too bright, I end up with under-exposed photos, too dim results in the opposite. I am not at the level yet where I have a good knowledge base of what my aperture/shutter speed should be without doing several tests. I have some general ranges, but nothing even close to fine tuned.

     So this is generally a photo I would have just trashed, but I liked the angle, and I thought the over-exposure actually had an interesting effect. While interesting, it didn’t really end up on my “keep” list until I messed around with the image in iPhoto. I switched it from a colored photo to sepia, which I rather like. I generally try not to mess around with my photos too much in post production, but I do think it is important to experiment. If I hadn’t experimented with this photo, I would not have kept it, and into the digital landfill it would have gone. What a sad thought.