Embrace The Dark
I fell into a pattern since I picked up my a6000. From the moment I took it out of its box I began to take pictures every day. Sometimes of the same thing. As of right now I’ve taken close to 1000 pictures. 75 percent of those are garbage.
I told myself I would post a picture up every day on social media, so I Post Process as many pictures as I can. I’ve missed a day or so in between but it’s enough for me to notice a pattern.
Most of my pictures tend to be dark. A lot of black and deep dark colors with the object in focus being light. It’s such a big difference from the pictures I was editing back when my friend lent me his Canon 60D.
Those pictures were bright and colorful. Looking back, I think I went overboard on the vibrance and over exposure. A lot had to do with the fact that my monitor is not calibrated so whenever I exported the .jpg it’d be completely different from what I had on screen.
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I solved that problem by using my iPhone as the second screen on Lightroom and being able to see what the picture will actually look like on screen.
But I finally figured out why my pictures are dark. Instagram…
I began to follow a lot of street photographers. Most of them shoot at night, so they are very selective of what light they use to illuminate their subject. Making the rest of the image dark.
Subconsciously I began mimicking these people. I haven’t done a good job at it since they have full frame cameras that can handle that low light better than mine ever will.
So for now I’ll embrace this style and try experiment as much as I can with it.
