I was scrolling through social media a few years back and this quote by Lady Gaga –
“If you dont have any shadows you’re not in the light”
? Lady Gaga
After I read the brief, I was sure on what topic I will the use of HDR or the most significant difference in the whites compared to the blacks of the image. This is where I hopped on to google and searched what I have been done before what I found is the following link actually useful when taking the images and editing them.
What I wanted to convey is the shadows and how they hit structure or various objects found on the street to create a more exciting image. While framing the shot the angle from where to take the picture took a big part of the work rather than mounting and setting exposure and the other technical jargon. When choosing the edge knowing were the sun is the most important for this type of imagery and placing yourself 90 degrees from the light (sun) to get more harsh and beautiful photo.
For the images, I wanted to create a shallow depth of field to introduce mystery in the picture. Once the photos were taken these were imported into Lightroom for simple touchups to make the desired output with the levels. The right Black, White, Shadow and highlight level was created then just exported in Jpeg full quality.
When I choose an image it’s either I like or I don’t in its raw form rather than picking out the needle from the haystack. After the image has been chosen the right set of colours and other post-processing is done but less is more.