137 - Ania and Magda

137 - Ania and Magda
Originally uploaded by gingerpig2000

This was taken in a dim pub without using flash, and you will not be surprised to hear that the result was an almost totally black image.

Given that I said some time ago I only really need composition and consistent lighting, this was too much of a good test to miss. So I played around with Gimp to get the image bright enough I could see the composition, and then relied on the fact that the lighting in the room came from few sources.

There was a lot of white and black speckling in the image, and I used the densities of the black and white areas and my memory of the composition to decide what should join up. There were some other objects in the image, which I decided to delete along with the white/black speckling that didn't add anything to the image.

I think the result, for a first time effort, was not too bad. A little bit of skill development should make quite an improvement.