{"id":506,"date":"2012-12-15T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/506-366-days-of-2012-day-350-good-times-good-friends.html"},"modified":"2012-12-16T02:40:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T16:10:31","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-350-good-times-good-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/506-366-days-of-2012-day-350-good-times-good-friends.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 350 – Good Times Good Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href="\/serendipity\/" title="Robert's Ramblings"\"\"<\/a>
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\nThe evening’s getting on and the party almost over.
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\nThank you Tim and Dee for your wonderful hospitality tonight. Such a beautiful home demanded an image to match. Perhaps I should have captured this scene earlier in the evening when there was more action but I like the subdued ‘had a good nigh’ feel.
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\nI tried a few ideas in capturing this image. I took two bracketed sets of 3, one at ISO160 and the other at ISO1600. The idea of the high ISO was to try and minimise ghosting in the individual frames. I was not happy with any of the high ISO images in terms of people and movement so I then explored the low ISO images. The middle exposure was very good but I really could not make the image transition beyond something you’d find in a ‘House & Garden’ magazine.
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\nThe final composition was a HDR composite of the low ISO images with no ghosting management at all. I really liked the sense of movement this created to liven an otherwise static image. This HDR image nearly didn’t make though. I’d already rendered my final ‘House & Garden’ version and was in the middle of this post when I remembered the words of U.S photographer Joel Grimes when he said, “We can’t take a photo and have it look like something that was taken 10 years ago. Were tired of it. You have to create new imagery.” So with that thought I started again.
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\nPhoto: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 350 – Good Times Good Friends’. 4s f\/5.6 ISO160 15mm<\/em>
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