The components I ended up using for this project were:
- My Camera (See 1st post)
- A beach...
- A black, matted, large frame from IKEA. (Who have GREAT frames btw...)
The one we ended up picking was a shot I took in 2005, after graduation when I went to go visit a friend on Maui. I was sitting on the beach with my camera and trying to catch the tide as it came in to blanket a little stone. It was evening so light was okay...enough to reflect off the water and allow for decent shutter speed. I did turn on burst to get a handful of candidate shots, as well though. It just happened though, that the shutter on "Program" AE mode was just long enough to smooth out the water as it came in and covered the rock, while catching some flits of spray in the foreground and getting a good, solid focus on the texture of the sand. I was pretty proud of it, even though its pretty simple and even a juvenile shot.
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| Original Shot |
We wanted this to be a black and white print. So we removed saturation in Photoshop and increased the contrast to show detail on the sand and the water spray. Then we took it to Kinko's and had them get it printed at about 18" x 29" or so for the frame. The photo is @ 8MP, so it was just slightly stretched (but perfect for the viewing distance we expected). We were careful to make sure they printed at the next largest size to ensure we kept aspect ratio though...
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| Final comp. above the bed. With me playing with something... |
