Monday, March 15, 2010

Creative Portraiture

"Creative" may be a euphemism for how this portrait turned out, but in a way I kind of like it.




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Aperture: f/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/640
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 18 mm
Handheld



That's my friend Miguel, eating a gyro near Canal Street. I think the focal area was too small, so I should have stopped down a bit just so that the crisp area that our eyes are naturally drawn too isn't so tiny. Especially since it was bright sunlight, I had no excuse to open the aperture up that wide... oh, well. It's an interesting effect, and one I'll probably experiment with more in the future.

1 comment:

  1. Shoot, my aperture is almost always wide open. It's fun. :-P I like this effect, and you could do some really cool stuff with this.

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