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I was sitting, reading and drinking tea when I noticed both the position and lighting on my wife's feet. I asked her not to move, retrieved my dSLR, located the battery (in the charger) put in a fresh memory card, erased it, and shot a few pictures before thinking to check ISO - 3000, so adjusted that and took a few more, closer or further, more or less tightly cropped.
I lightened the red channel, used fill light to open shadows, reduced contrast and applied blur selectively to a copy of the image, then toned it.
The point of course is that I wasn't thinking about making images. This wasn't a deliberate effort on my part to be observant. Mind you, I suspect that it comes from practicing deliberate seeing.
I have no idea yet whether this is a good image - I can only say that at the moment it pleases me. I like the almost marble sculpture effect.
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You're entirely right about `practicing deliberate seeing'.
I've been doing an intimate-landscape a day, with the rule that everything must be b&w and 3:2. To start with, I relied on the LCD to preview the b&w conversion; now I point and click and quite often it works well anyway, through practice.
The marble-effect processing is most excellent.
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