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diff --git a/src/photography/index.php b/src/photography/index.php index 7fbcb27..ae84c22 100644 --- a/src/photography/index.php +++ b/src/photography/index.php @@ -4,25 +4,19 @@ require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/head.php"); require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/header.php"); ?> <p> - Photography is an interesting medium. It, of course, explores human conceptions of beauty: symmetry, contrast, colour. - It provides, too, a very literal image of projection--while humans live in a 3D space, a picture is usually viewed - in 2D. For this reason, the photographer has ultimate power over the image he shares; an infinite number of 2D slices - may be created of a 3D space. Despite this control, there is a way in which photography is different from other forms - of art: a photographer does not necessarily feel that he is <i>creating</i>; often, he feels that he is - <i>capturing</i>. + My photos come from either my iPhone 13 Pro, which takes pretty bad pictures, or my Canon 6D MK II, which is a full-frame DSLR. + For my DSLR, I almost always use my 50mm f/1.8 prime lens. Rarely, I instead use a 70-300mm telephoto zoom. Some of my photos will + have metadata attached if you're curious about the settings I use. In good light, I shoot from around 1/2000, 100iso, f/1.8, ranging to + 1/500, 400iso, f/6. In dark conditions, I shoot at around 1/200, 2000iso, f/1.8. Of course, a wide open aperture induces some significant + gaussian blurring, so that is a stylistic element that I sometimes want and sometimes don't. It does mean that I can minimize grain and motion blur. + The other thing that comes up is focal plane issues. Sometimes the plane of my subject does not exactly match the plane of focus, in which case + I will be forced to step down the aperture. I try not to go below f/8 if I can help it, because the image becomes less clear. + You may notice a vignette in some of pictures. This is usually not intentional--my lens just tends to do that. I'm too lazy to fix it in post. + On the note of post-processing, I don't do it much. Sometimes I retouch shadows and highlights, but I try to stay away from colour, with the notable + exception of my B&W work. </p> -<h2>Technical Details</h2> <p> - My photos come from either my iPhone 13 Pro, which takes pretty bad pictures, or my Canon 6D MK II, which is a full-frame DSLR. - For my DSLR, I almost always use my 50mm f/1.8 prime lens. Rarely, I instead use a 70-300mm telephoto zoom. Some of my photos will - have metadata attached if you're curious about the settings I use. In good light, I shoot from around 1/2000, 100iso, f/1.8, ranging to - 1/500, 400iso, f/6. In dark conditions, I shoot at around 1/200, 2000iso, f/1.8. Of course, a wide open aperture induces some significant - gaussian blurring, so that is a stylistic element that I sometimes want and sometimes don't. It does mean that I can minimize grain and motion blur. - The other thing that comes up is focal plane issues. Sometimes the plane of my subject does not exactly match the plane of focus, in which case - I will be forced to step down the aperture. I try not to go below f/8 if I can help it, because the image becomes less clear. - You may notice a vignette in some of pictures. This is usually not intentional--my lens just tends to do that. I'm too lazy to fix it in post. - On the note of post-processing, I don't do it much. Sometimes I retouch shadows and highlights, but I try to stay away from colour, with the notable - exception of my B&W work. + There're no photos here because I haven't figured out how I want to handle serving images. </p> <h2>Selected Works</h2> <ul> |