This Is The Shot I've Waited Months to Take
This Is The Shot I've Waited Months to Take - 12.8mm at f/2.8, ISO 80, Shutter speed 1/250 sec
I love photographs of people smiling. I like smiling people, and I truly wish I had more photographs like this one to share with you. I took this photograph on Friday evening during my epic photo walk. That's also my definition of the word epic you'd need to apply to the previous sentence. When I took this shot I was 10 maybe 15 meters away from them (so it's been cropped). I had no idea they were very cool, and very cool with the idea of me taking their photograph, so I was delighted when I looked through the images on my Leica D-Lux 4 and discovered the joy on their faces. It really makes up for how you get treat sometimes in life.
Maybe I should start a wish list of all the people I see smiling on a regular basis that I'd love to capture on camera. Escalator Girl would be on that list. If you've followed me on Twitter since mid 2009, you'll more than likely know what I'm on about.
For post processing of this image, I actually really love the multiple out the box settings that I applied in Silver Efex Pro to create the preset you can download at the bottom of this post. First I applied the Pinhole preset and changed the film type to Kodak 100 TMAX Pro. The Pinhole preset already has a red colour filter applied, but you may need to experiment with the other colours to tweak your image. The guy in the foreground is actually wearing a bright orange shirt, so the red filter has lightened it up nicely. I kept the vignette settings that come with the Pinhole preset but thought that this image really looks a lot more polished once I split toned it with Preset 3, making no modifications at all.
For once, just a nice quick and simple post processing solution. I'm not gonna mention how much time I spent on the train experimenting with other ideas.
