I'm so proud of myself. I introduced the WWYD challenge to the executive committee of our photo club and they decided to use it for our January meeting. That meant some basic shots for folks to play around with. I never suggest something unless I'm willing to do it myself, so I offered to submit a picture that could be edited by anyone in the club who wants to give it a try.
We'll be giving them a cityscape, a landscape and an indoor close-up to choose from and I was assigned the task of getting the indoor shot. I can never make up my mind about these things so I took several shots of these apples and someone else can decide which one to post.
The man who will be taking care of all those submissions wanted me to shoot a jpg in neutral. He had a more technical reason for this, but it was up to me to find it in the camera and get the shot. And I did! Although my Powershot had a neutral application in several settings, it wasn't exactly what he was looking for. But I realized this was a great opportunity for some hands on learning with the T3i!
So I asked him what to look for, found it, and then took the shots. Well, since I'd gone to all the trouble to get the shot, why not process it too? Of course I won't submit this one, but it was interesting to see how I could bring different nuances out in the color by shooting in this mode.
And after these apples did such a great job posing, they did an even better job as dessert!
@kerristephens Thank you Kerri! @maggiemae Thank you Maggie! I'll do my best to explain what I think it is! Unlike monotone which puts everything into grayscale, neutral evens out the extremes of color in your shot. So in this shot (before I processed it) everything stayed in a middle range red- not too light, not too bright, not too dark. When I processed it I was then able to make it redder, orange-red, yellow-red, whatever aspect I wanted to emphasize. I chose to give it a golden glow which brought out more yellow/orange than red. Paraphrasing his more technical explanation of what it does, the neutral setting overrides the in-camera settings that highlight contrast and color range- it that makes sense. @digitalrn Thank you Rick! And we had homemade whipped cream too. (o: @dibzgreasley Thanks Debs! @yaorenliu Thank you Yao! It stands for What Would You Do? A picture is posted and participants are allowed to take the shot and process it in whatever way they want. It's a lot of fun to see what happens to the shot. I don't know if they'll use this close-up or another one I took of the whole dish. But it's going to be fun to see what folks do with it! @sarasdadandmom Thank you Terry! You bring the chocolate covered strawberries and I'll bring the pie and let's meet for dessert! @altadc Thank you Alta! @fugitivemoments Thank you Linda! @ceilidh Thank you Margaret! It is a deep dish pie plate, but this particular recipe is not what I'd call a deep dish pie. All in all very tasty!
@janiskay Thank you Janice! They were delicious- I used to use McIntosh for all my baking, but recently saw Gala apples recommended in a flyer from the supermarket and decided to give them a try. Both Jeff and I said, "Wow!" on the first bite and I've been using them ever since. I think the next time though I might try a mix to see what happens. @pyrrhula Thank you Pyrrhula!
I've been making baked apples for dinner lately... Put in a little cinnamon, raisins, walnuts, hat it was I add the raisins and walnuts towards the end. And it's great if you get a mix of baking apples. You can ask the guy at the store what is good.
oh, and Ann. You have been so nice, I think recently, posting a lot about my photos and I feel like I haven't returned the favor as much and I'm sorry. U know how it is.
@prttblues Thanks Bev! Rather than type it all out again, I'm just going to direct to the above response to Maggie- that pretty much sums it up. @creativeaddict Thanks Laur! Not to worry!
November 13th, 2014
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@maggiemae Thank you Maggie! I'll do my best to explain what I think it is! Unlike monotone which puts everything into grayscale, neutral evens out the extremes of color in your shot. So in this shot (before I processed it) everything stayed in a middle range red- not too light, not too bright, not too dark. When I processed it I was then able to make it redder, orange-red, yellow-red, whatever aspect I wanted to emphasize. I chose to give it a golden glow which brought out more yellow/orange than red. Paraphrasing his more technical explanation of what it does, the neutral setting overrides the in-camera settings that highlight contrast and color range- it that makes sense.
@digitalrn Thank you Rick! And we had homemade whipped cream too. (o:
@dibzgreasley Thanks Debs!
@yaorenliu Thank you Yao! It stands for What Would You Do? A picture is posted and participants are allowed to take the shot and process it in whatever way they want. It's a lot of fun to see what happens to the shot. I don't know if they'll use this close-up or another one I took of the whole dish. But it's going to be fun to see what folks do with it!
@sarasdadandmom Thank you Terry! You bring the chocolate covered strawberries and I'll bring the pie and let's meet for dessert!
@altadc Thank you Alta!
@fugitivemoments Thank you Linda!
@ceilidh Thank you Margaret! It is a deep dish pie plate, but this particular recipe is not what I'd call a deep dish pie. All in all very tasty!
@pyrrhula Thank you Pyrrhula!
@creativeaddict Thanks Laur! Not to worry!