{"id":647,"date":"2008-04-03T17:26:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T21:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/04\/03\/a-little-competition\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T17:26:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T21:26:55","slug":"a-little-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/04\/03\/a-little-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Competition ;)"},"content":{"rendered":"
title=”Colored Amp by n1zyy, on Flickr”>\"Colored<\/a><\/figure>\n

Okay, so I much prefer Andrew’s. But I woke up this morning and Kyle’s guitar amp was the first thing I saw. “That’d make a good photo,” I thought.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what to make of it, though. I always envisioned it as something that would be a good picture at a concert, lit by various stage lighting. In this case, it was lit by light coming in through the window, and the shot would essentially have been black and white.<\/p>\n

So I wonder what to make of my modifications. If I told you that I set up two slave flashes, one with a blue gel over it, and one with a red filter over it, and positioned them on opposite sides of the amp, you’d think I was a really advanced photographer, going to great lengths to create a good shot. But I’m a college student with no external flash, much less two radio slaves with colored gels I can slip in. So I used Photoshop to add in some colored lighting effects, and dialed the opacity down to make it more subtle. I also applied some very “broad” sharpening, because the “Jay” was initially thrown too far out of focus. It’s still not nearly as good as I’d like, but the outline’s better.<\/p>\n

So the net result, I think, is that it conceivably looks like a shot taken at a concert, or something else interesting, versus something taken of my roommate’s guitar amp on the floor on a sunny morning. But part of me thinks it’s “wrong” to go that far in Photoshop.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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