It's a slow week, blogwise.
The above work in progress is a knitted blanket that Mrs. RWP has been working on for our sixth and youngest grandchild who turned 18 last Saturday and will be going away to college in the fall. The blanket is not quite halfway done at this point.
I have shown you two photographs to get your opinion on the lighting. The pieces are stretched out on our dining room table. In the first photograph the lights in the room are on. In the second photograph, the lights in the room are off.
In summary, one is in artificial light and one is in natural light.
Would you please be so kind as to tell me which photo you prefer, and why?
In no way do I claim to be a photographer. I am just curious.
Saying that made me think of the uproar caused by the two pornographic films I Am Curious (Yellow) and I Am Curious (Blue) back in the sixties, so named because the film-maker was Swedish and those are Sweden's national colors. If he had been American, I suppose he would have made three pornographic films, I Am Curious (Red), I Am Curious (White), and (I Am Curious (Blue). Note my continued use of the Oxford comma in spite of its declining popularity.
I never saw those films, I just remember the uproar.
Don't forget to tell me which lighting you prefer on the photographs.
In the first you have mixed light. Always the very devil to manage without off camera strobes. The second is grand, maybe a touch underexposed in the foreground. Nothing that Photoshop couldn't correct. Difficult if you shot in JPEG, if you shot in CAMERA RAW then send me a TIFF file and I'll do it for you. Shoot again at about f16 the depth of field will improve no end.
ReplyDeleteThis is my hobby or one of them so excuse the nit picking.
Adrian, I am very dumb. I really don't know what I'm doing. I didn't use an actual camera, I used my iPhone and then sent the image to my email, from where I saved it as a .jpg file, and it found its way to blogger and this post. I don't have f settings that I know of. I don't know what a TIFF file is. Or CAMERA RAW either, for that matter. Thanks for the offer and for using the word "grand".
DeletePS. focus on the white bit of wool about a third in it's in the fourth square.
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DeleteI like the first one better. Although the difference is extremely minor I see the colors in the first as being slightly brighter .
ReplyDeleteEmma, I actually like the second one better because the whites look a bit creamy in the first one due to the ceiling light being on. You are right about the colors being slightly brighter in the first one, but the colors in the second one are more accurate vis-a-vis the yarn.
DeleteI like natural light in general but I like the more even lighting effect in the second shot.
ReplyDeleteIt's a big project but I imagine Mrs rwp has done a few large blankets before!
kylie, Mrs. RWP has made five previous blankets for the five older grandchildren, and all of them were in the chevron pattern (the blankets, not the grandchildren). Because #6 will be going to the same college as his older brother, Mrs. RWP needed to use the same school colors but wanted to vary the pattern so that they wouldn't have identical blankets. Hence, the checkerboard pattern this time. Our grandchildren came bang, bang, bang, so Mrs. RWP has been making one blanket a year for the past six years, as they graduate from high school and go away to college. This is the last one.
DeleteI like the more even lighting in the second shot as well.
I prefer the artificially lit version. However, you made a boo-boo with the naturally lit picture because you were aiming your camera towards the natural light source. If you had stood close to the window and looked the other way, the blanket would have looked better.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, if Ellie is knitting a blanket for your sixth grandchild what are you doing? May I suggest carving a bald eagle from a nice piece of American oak. It will need smoothing and varnishing when the piece is finished. If you haven't got any woodcarving chisels you can order them via Amazon.
Neil, proof I am not a photographer. I suppose one of the first rules must be "don't aim your camera towards the light source" but did I know this? No.
DeleteThis house does not need a bald eagle. One nearly bald head on the premises is enough.
As we are simply talking preferences I prefer the warmer mixed light of the first photo. It may not look like the real thing but then, where pleasure is concerned, who cares. Congratulations to Mrs RWP. I thought it was a very large scarf and she had lost her way.
ReplyDeleteGraham, you made me laugh with the "very large scarf"!!
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