In a rare scenario, I found myself needing to find a shot that wasn’t one of my good ones because for marketing purposes I needed to give it away for less than I’d normally charge as a favor to the designer. As a result I looked through some of my images that were technically okay, but didn’t make the final cut. This shot ended up being a winner and is one that fit the bill perfectly. It was good enough, but not so good that it would be chosen over the better shots in the gallery – or would it?
I ended up spending so much time processing this shot which looked really bad originally (hover over above to see the before) that I created something that has actually started to attract interest. Whoops!
I shot this with a Canon 5D Mark II using my 16-35mm lens set to a focal length of 23mm. By accident I shot it at f/5 for 1/30 sec at ISO-100 because my knob rotated from manual to aperture priority (Av). It was a crap shot that was wrong on many levels, but I rescued it well enough that the print now hangs on my door at my office. I kinda dig it now, but if I would have followed most conventional wisdom this would have been a shot I deleted.
For more on this photo, see “Photo Thoughts – Beezerker Overhead (Background Replacement)”.
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