Twisted Indifference

I am pretty sure I haven’t pioneered this concept. Reason? I am a photographer and not a designer. It took me ages to do this (4 hours spread over 2 days). I guess the main reason bloggers (excluding the one’s running webcomics on theirs) would not want to follow something like this would be since it would screw up their SEO.

So why am I doing it? I am not going to say I that I do not give a damn about SEO. I would love it as much as the other guy if search results with photography as the keyword give Twisted Indifference Studios as the first result. Think of it as a burglar alarm. It may not be 100% effective but still makes the job a hell lot tougher for thieves. Not to mention the fact that I really like the way it has turned out.

Moving on to what went on while taking this shot. I wanted to shoot the scooter in an urban location. I agree this location is more residential than commercial but it suited my aesthetic purposes. Took the easy way out on the lighting. Sweet morning sunrise.

For this shot the sun was behind me, i.e. incident on the subject. Metering was on matrix but I shot a little to the right. Just enough that I could recover it in Photoshop. The histogram display has seriously become my new best friend. Shooting to the right ensured capturing the complete detail of the bike which I am sure you must have noticed is black. You might find it a little hard to note the details in the area a little behind the front mudguard. I am presuming this is on account of this being a low res photograph.

The colours underwent the maximum post processing (not to be read as dependent on post processing!). I shoot at the default settings without boosting saturation. Image Optimization is also at Normal. Please note that the nomenclature used for camera related purposes will mostly be unique to Nikon. Canon generally has different terminology. Semantics most of the time. Nikon has Vibration Reduction (VR) and Canon has Image Stabilizer (IS). I like how the camera sales people make it sound like that function is the lens’ USP.

I digress. Post processing involved playing with Levels a bit and a moderate hand with the Burn tool. It brought out the saturation required. I must also mention that while in Levels, I boosted yellow a notch. The result, a warmer tone on the buildings and a cool blue sky, is at the beginning of this post.

There are a lot of kinks to be worked out for a post like this. Suggestions and/or requests are always welcome.