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Sony World Photography Award 2012

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The Apprentice by Jamie Furlong

Out of 52,352 entries from 171 countries, my low-light entry was whittled down to the last 50 & commended! World Photo from 27th April to 20th May at Somerset House, London, & printed in the handbook!

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7th February by Angela R

Well done Jamie, congratulations. Must try and get to the exhibition and see the end print, as I said in the other thread I think most of the pictures look better displayed as prints than on the screen of a laptop.

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7th February by Sergeant_Pluck

That's really nice - it almost looks like a painting by one of the Dutch Masters. Even the slight noise (that I presume came from using a high ISO) really gives it some atmosphere. Congratulations on the inclusion, what a great achievement.

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7th February by JayR

Well done, Jamie.

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7th February by Jamie Furlong

Hey, thanks all for the comments!

@Sergeant - that's not the first time it's been compared to a painting. The previous suggestion was Goya, I think because of the 'grotesque' woman who is lurking in the shadows. Oh, and congratulations to you for your MyWanderlust award!

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7th February by Sergeant_Pluck

Ugh! I never even noticed her! Yeah, what's the painting taht reminds me of - something to do with water-sellers of Seville (wait - googling).....ah yeah, Velasquez - The Waterseller of Seville...with the ghostly face in the background....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waterseller_of_Seville_(Vel%C3%A1zquez)

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7th February by satkinson

Congrats!

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7th February by Jamie Furlong

I was thinking something like this, which is a self-portrait. See the faces in the background:

http://arthistory.about.com/library/weekly/sp/bl_goyalast_rev.htm

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7th February by Liz Cleere

Yes! Velasquez is a good call.

Something about the play of light and shadow, and the folds of the cloth screamed Vermeer at me when I first saw it. The colours too.

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7th February by satkinson

The light effect is called chiaroscuro - takes me back to art 'o' level classes!

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7th February by Jamie Furlong

Wow, I feel like I've learnt something quite significant, Sophie!

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7th February by JayR

Tech details please Jamie - how did you do it?

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7th February by Jamie Furlong

OK, it was taken in Delhi one evening after Liz and I went to listen to the sufis singing their sunset laments at Hazrat Nizam-ud-din Dargah.

After working our way through the tight backstreets towards the main road I came across this old boy sewing by the light of a single bulb. It was completely dark by this time and there were no streetlights. The 5Dii doesn't have a built-in flash but it does have marvelous high ISO properties, so setting the aperture to f4 and slightly underexposing for the lightbulb, I was able to set the shutter at 1/25 on ISO2500.

The painterly effect is not conscious post-processing, it is more a product of a very high ISO setting with some noise and RAW tweaking. Specifically I reset the curves, contrast and unsharpen mask, and made tonal changes like increasing the contrast.

I have found, since shooting high iso high shutter speed stuff on the 5Dii that the 'Luminance' setting in ACR gives this painterly effect. It is one way of reducing the noise that is caused from the high ISO.

BTW - I rarely take my flash with me when street shooting, which is why I'll whack up the ISO setting after the sun has gone down. It's an interesting project, going out after dark without a flash gun and seeing how far you can push your camera.

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7th February by Angela R

I didn't notice the woman either!

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7th February by JayR

Thanks for that Jamie. I've lost so many wonderful low light shots because I wasn't sure what to do.

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9th February by Liz Cleere

The shot's up on the WPO website, along with the other commendeds.

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6th March by Peterj2002

Wonderful shot Jamie. Well worth the praise.

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