Change the Light Create A Story

Change the Lighting

Take an ordinary shot and change the lighting and it can become something totally different than you had imagined.

When I was shooting this sculpture it looked like the this fellow with the ball in his hand could have been a boy back in Roman times.  The headband and the long hair flowing off his shoulders left this impression.

Create a Story with Your Image

Change the Light

It is a sculpture about Pizza.  Pizza takes ones mind to Rome.  It does doesn’t it?

Not that Peter Piper Pizza (which is where this statue is located) bring to mind a great pizza dynasty. . .   From this angle I saw something different.  I saw a young boy coming home from a game of something with a ball on the day of the great volcano, the day Pompeii was buried under lava and ash.

I know the architecture doesn’t remind you of Rome.  I would need to brush the buildings out of the scene like I did the lunch posters in the windows behind him.  But the sky with those heavy clouds looked almost volcanic.

Tweaking the color balance a little at a time and trying a few different things with the histogram and it wasn’t long I had the look I was after for the background.

If I wanted to spend even more time with it, I would put the one image over the other and keep the boy looking like a metal head and put the volcanic sky and background in around him.

There are lots of ways I could change this image and create a totally new look and feel.

But back to the beginning.  It all is possible by changing the angle of the shot.  Nothing creative is gained or expressed by simply walking up to and around the subject while shooting from the standing position.

Get some rhythm going, move at your waist, bend your knees, don’t be afraid to get the seat of your pants dirty.  It isn’t about being clean and neat, it is about using the amazing camera support you have in your body to GET THE SHOT.

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