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It was one of those days. Those stormy days. Those days when the sun shows up at about 17:00–peaking through clouds. It was a bright warm light bursting through. The kind of light that you always want to take advantage of. So I did.

Short rant starting here. The single thing using old lenses that don’t meter has done that I take with me even with metering lenses is to realize that exposure is an aesthetic choice. This is where computers get in the way, the world is not full of scenes that fit in 6 stops of dynamic range, or full of lines to make crisp focus easy, it isn’t all 18% grey or other neutral colours for AWB to render perfectly. The world is full of subjects that are open to photographic interpretation. It’s full of opportunities to overexpose and underexpose for emotion. It’s full of opportunities to play with focus, sharp or soft, for the end result. It’s ripe with opportunities to manipulate colours to an artistic end. Don’t confine photography to the proper exposure, find the correct one. For kicks I took this picture as an exposure meter would have, but guess which picture made it here. Exposure is an artistic tool in the photographer’s kit. That’s the big point of all of this.

f/2.8 16×9 crop, Photoshop to roll some yellow-greens to be more green (more accurate to my memory though) and for watermark.

Lots of D40 uploads this week. I promise. Probably the last of them though.
Update on the new camera, I’ve got it in my hot little paws. I must say, it’s a bit overwhelming, and it’s bloody fast. Like the change from P&S to D40 threw me back about how fast a camera can operate, this one has as well. In addition every option on my D40 appears to have become three. Still trying to get everything set how it needs to be.
Still no opinion about the 720p HDV out of it yet. I’ll shoot it next to Panasonic’s HVX100 and/or the HVX200 next semester for school sometime. Maybe even against the Sony PD170 at the TV station. Anyway I’ll let you know when I have an opinion on its video.

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