Portland Highland Games - Piper Tin-type

            Sometimes I work and work and work an image and find I can't express nor reveal what I feel about a scene or subject.  This was the case with this image.  I knew what I felt.  I knew what I wanted to say.  But how to express it?

Finally, after 30 or 40 versions, it finally came to me.  The Scottish Highlands, a Piper, and tin-types.  But no just any tin-type.  Rather, something that corroded and changed and oxidized with time.

A real tin-type would never do this.  Yet this is what I sometimes feel tin-types _should_ do.  Over time.  If I were king.

Fortunately, there are tools to help me find the right voice.  The right feeling.  The right message.

Taken on: July 18, 2009

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Camera: Canon EOS 50D, f/8.0, 1/125 sec, 75mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 50D
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.008 sec (1/125)
Focal Length:	75mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Digital Photo Professional
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