7.1 Kickin’ It Old School
By: dani photography
Category: Photography
| Aperture: | f/5.6 |
|---|---|
| Focal Length: | 18mm |
| ISO: | 200 |
| Shutter: | 1/125 sec |
| Camera: | NIKON D50 |
So my sweet tapedeck-to-mp3 converter broke a few weeks back, again, prompting a raid of my old cassette tapes. Since then I’ve been listening to a lot of Descendents, The Ataris, MxPx, NoFX, old Green Day, old Offspring, Face To Face, etc.
My personal favorites are the old mix tapes: originally belonging to my older sister and containing some kind of 90′s dance or rap music,
I took them and taped over the corners so they could be recorded on, scratched off the original band name, and wrote in sharpie “misc. punk”. Sorry Lissy.
Maybe that’s why I shot this week’s photo.. of the eight or so pairs of converse in my closet, these are the oldest pair, which date back to roughly 1999. Others have lost their lives along the way, worn down to nothingness, misplaced during moves, or lost at various rowdy concerts. But I never could bring myself to part with these green ones.
This photo is another attempt at using HDR, this time combining eight images. I’ve been doing some reading on the subject, and this time I managed to avoid most halos. I hope you enjoy.
Thanks for looking,
dani
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Awesome, nice colors, I remember those old converse shoes….I threw mine away though!
Thank you and very nice use of HDR!
[...] Week 7: Kickin’ It Old School This image was a test of making something out of nothing. It was the first image during the year (but not the last) that didn’t show my face in the self portrait, but, still tells a story about who I am. I was running short on ideas this week.. until I came across my favorite oldest most ripped up pair of converse. To make it interesting, and show off the multiple textures playing throughout the image, I used an HDR technique. HDR is a pretty controversial topic when it comes to some photographers. In my opinion, it is a tool, like many photographic tools, that is best used in moderation, and at just the right times. This was one of those times. I learned to hold very still, while hitting the shutter nine times. I’ve sold two prints of this image. [...]