Year In Pictures: 2010/06/10

[plonq]

When you have a camera, and you are stomping around the house looking for a picture, it's amazing how many little pockets of eclectic you can find.

In this strange little tableau, Pumbaa appears to have just discovered that he has a snout. Simba has either had an epiphany, or discovered ecstasy. Flexing Buddha has found an appreciative audience in Nala... and Timon.

This is the shot that I decided to use for my "picture of the day".



I shot this one under less-than-ideal lighting, with the aperture all the way open at f/1.8 and the shutter at 1/30th of a second, which was as fast as I could go without underexposing it badly. Other than fixing the colour and exposure a bit, I didn't have to retouch much in this one. Well, I straightened it by a couple of degrees and shrunk it. Also I boosted the sharpness a bit.

In retrospect, I guess I changed a fair bit. Those have all become such standard things for me to change that I've grown used to the idea of a photo like this being "virtually untouched" in my books.

I retouched this one considerably more, of course. atara took one look at it and said, "It's hardly a photograph any more. Are you sure you want to use that for your picture of the day?"

She's probably right, but I can still post it here anyway, can't I?

Comments

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Neat, I have a couple of those ;)

[kfops.livejournal.com]

Heh... I think it's amazing how you actually reverted the Lion King items back into a cartoon drawing!

[pierrekrahn.livejournal.com]

I agree with Atara. It's hardly a photograph anymore.
But, it's still very cool!

[giza.livejournal.com]

You should submit the photo of the TLK mugs to The Consumerist Photo Pool, I think it'd fit in nicely there.