Carla's Blog

What did I learn?  There is a really nice group of photographers out there.  Don’t cut off body limbs.  Think –  what do I want to say?  I must make the images my own. Be authentic to yourself. Photograph the reaction not the action. Think in metaphors. If I see a place that says to me I need to make a picture. Stay there, sit and wait. And the computer – Copy all raw into DNG when exporting from my camera. It’s not going to rain today. We’ll be at the wall on Valencia and 23rd putting up our images of San Francisco. These images are for the People.

Photos that are high key have a very beautiful look, in which there’s very low contrast with light tones and soft colors – in other words, a scene that’s mostly white/bright. This definition is cut and paste straight out of betterphoto.com! Bright fog came right up to the window. Sun from another window fell on the tulips.

With the help of nature’s fog and a free 15 day trial from Nik Software, Inc. – Silver Efex Pro I came up with this image. My model was a flat rusted sculpture of a man.