In a (New) World of My Own

This is a true-to-life representation of my own vision: One eye goes up and one eye goes down.

Can I say ‘win!’? Yeah, I can. I’m ordinarily humble about my photographs. I see them in terms of their flaws; softness, blown highlights, uneven horizon, blur and underexposure are what leap out of me when I review them. Recently I have been working on the ‘exposure’ part of matters by trying to nail down correct exposures in difficult situations, such as catching the sunset through a grove of trees.

In this instance I’m happy to say that I believe I’ve nailed it.

(dot dot dot)

These aren’t part of my 365 days of photos, but are instead a bunch of related photos I want to toss out: Dark and foggy. Lovely.

This photo is technically terrible. The stitching is lazy and parts of it are either blurry or outright out of focus. But I don’t care: This photo does its job as both an exposure control test (balancing highlights and shadow) and an experiment in handling perspective correction – in Photoshop – by hand.

As a bonus the image is generally purthy.

I’m forced to admit that I am disgruntled by the top two-thirds of this image.