Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I. Shooting John Wayne 7 slides Copyright © 2003 to 2009 Kenji Tachibana

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Shooting John Wayne: T aming Big John: I found the big guy on a wall of a john in My Sisters Place Restaurant in Grand Marais, Minnesota. John looked ready to be shot. So I did using my Sony H1, an early generation compact digital super-zoom. The room was small and dimly lit making it difficult to shoot. That made it a perfect situation for using the camera flash. The artwork was covered with glass. To avoid flash glare on the glass, I moved off to the right side. That resulted in distorting the shape of the art work as seen in the example.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Shooting John Wayne: R equirements: When copying an art work, the primary concern is to achieve an accurate reproduction in brightness, tonal range, color, and shape. Most snap shooters stand directly in front of an art work and use both the zoom lens set on wide and the flash. The resulting image is often misshapen with barrel (bowed out) and perspective distortion and with a flash glare on the artwork. To avoid the usual pitfalls, I made decisions described in both the previous and next slide.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Shooting John Wayne: S olution Facts and Considerations: Subject 3 x 4 poster covered with glass.3 x 4 poster covered with glass. 5.5 x 7.5 room with dark green walls and no windows.5.5 x 7.5 room with dark green walls and no windows. Marginally dim single 100 watt bare light bulb.Marginally dim single 100 watt bare light bulb. Camera settings 22mm is preferred but 19.mm telephoto was used because of the small room.22mm is preferred but 19.mm telephoto was used because of the small room. Avoid the wide angle zoom because of the barrel distortion and extreme perspective distortion.Avoid the wide angle zoom because of the barrel distortion and extreme perspective distortion. The ISO was lowered from 100 to 64 to increase image quality.The ISO was lowered from 100 to 64 to increase image quality. Flash was used for both reliable brightness and color.Flash was used for both reliable brightness and color.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Shooting John Wayne: C amera Original: I avoided the glare from the flash by being off to one side. But, my skewed shooting angle introduced natural perspective distortion. I accepted the distortion since thats fixable in Photoshop. Flash-glare would have been nearly impossible to fix.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Shooting John Wayne: F ixed: Fully lab worked The image shape was corrected using Edit > Transform > Skew. Then it was processed using Levels, Brightness/Contrast, and Color layer adjustments. Use the keyboard up and down arrow keys to compare this fixed version with the previous camera original.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Shooting John Wayne: S ummary: John had glass covering him but many art work that you might want to copy, will have a semi- gloss seen them. So, glare (reflection) from the light source most likely will be an issue to consider.

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