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Caption: Kids on
school bus
Technical data: Photo taken with a handheld Nikon SLR film camera and
Nikkor 35mm f2 lens using existing daylight. Approximate exposure 1/250
second at f5.6 - Fuji Sensia 100 color transparency film. No lens
filters were used.
Film was scanned using a Minolta
Dimage series film scanner. Photo file was routinely optimized using
Photoshop; color balance, levels and curves, sharpening, cropping and
dust spot removal using clone tool. I use a Mac for all photo
processing.

Comments: I don't suppose I made a friend with the driver of
this bus. To build some enthusiasm
with the kids I pointed to my camera and then to them and shook my
head "no". In no time I had a small mob at the window begging for
pictures. Quickly I snapped a few and ducked away before things got out
of hand.
This shot was tough to meter. I
took spot readings of the children on the right and of the yellow paint
and averaged them. I needed a good yellow but also legible faces. The
original, uncropped image contained lots of bright sky above the bus so
a "multipattern" or other auto exposure mode would have overcompensated
and caused an underexposed picture.
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