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SmugMug > keywords > reflector > Landscape photo
SmugMug > keywords > reflector > April 5, 2009; Day 338.

Texture In Hand.

I remember seeing my mom’s hands after a few years on the farm and marveling at the texture carved into her palms from the toil of being farmers.  At the time she was younger than I am now, and sadly, my hands have not worked nearly as hard.  Still, there’s lots of texture in there.

The assignment for Week 4 in my close-up photography class is to capture texture with and without the help of a reflector.  Here, my hand is in the sunlight streaming in from the right.  Yes, the right.  Only little patches of the sunlight are illuminating my hand; most is blocked by the fingers you don’t see.  On the left is my 12-inch gold reflector which is in full sun and therefore, throwing a lot of golden light.  Most of this light is reaching my hand.

The macro lens was set to 1:2 since I originally wanted to get much more of the hand in the shot.  The texture of this crop is better, so I should have gotten closer with the camera.

This image was submitted to the class.

Raw: Crop: 5.7MP
Raw: Color Temperature: 4950K; Tint: -20
Raw: Recovery: +40
Raw: Saturation: +10
PS: Curves: Linear Contrast preset
PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
SmugMug > keywords > reflector > August 7, 2008 

Light source

And that's a nice reflection on you.
Landscape photo
Photo by: Adam Montoya • see photo in gallery

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