As I mentioned in this previous post, my camera kept adjusting for, and auto-focusing on, Jeri Thompson when I was trying to shoot Fred Thompson today — probably because she was wearing white, and certainly not because of any conscious decision on the part of the photographer.
I did get a couple of shots of her intentionally, but it was mostly from behind, because she generally kept her eyes toward the candidate.
Men who frequent blogs have seemed motivated to call up pictures of Mrs. Thompson, no doubt because of their admiration of her husband’s political philosophy. But in one of my missed-focus shots, I noticed
something for the ladies to take an interest in. See the blow-up below.
I assume that thing’s real, although what I know from diamonds you
could fit into a quark. Nothing like having a husband who’s made big bucks in several fields, huh?
This post is certified free of any political significance, although I did see "Blood Diamond" on DVD last night. But I have no idea where this one came from, so we are still relevance-free.
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What does the color of clothing she was wearing have to do with anything? Does Brad have a nurse fetish?
Brad’s the cinematographer,but I think the CAMERA loves white,not that a nurse fetish is a bad thing.
It was a bit dark in the room to shoot with ambient light, which is what I was doing. The camera made it darker because it kept setting its exposure level (shutter speed and/or aperture ratio) with reference to the one bright portion of the frame — Mrs. Thompson’s outfit. Apparently (and I’m not sure how the “brain” of this digital camera works; I’m not even sure what I said about shutter speed and aperture applies with digital), the autofocus kept adjusting itself to the brightest part of the picture, too, even though I was trying to put the senator in position to be the center of focus.
I used Photoshop to increase the brightness and contrast (and remove some red-eye) in the second and third pictures above. But the top one is just as I shot it. As you can see, the white just kind of jumps out of the picture, while the rest fades to chiaroscuro. The sharpest part of the focus is on Mrs. Thompson’s hair, not the senator’s face.
That’s the best I can do in explaining it, Bill C. My training was all back in the days of film and darkrooms. Maybe somebody else with more up-to-date savvy can explain it better.
Brad, aim the camera away from the “white”, push down half-way on the shutter button and then position the camera to the subject and take the picture. The half-shutter will lock in the light and speed settings.