{"id":3935,"date":"2013-03-05T11:53:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T16:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=3935"},"modified":"2013-03-05T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T17:18:13","slug":"potd-the-moment-of-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=3935","title":{"rendered":"POTD: The Moment of Birth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3938\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/130304-moment-birth-5D3-7109b-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3938\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3938\" title=\"130304-moment-birth-5D3-7109b-w7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/130304-moment-birth-5D3-7109b-w7.jpg\" alt=\"Moment of Birth\" width=\"700\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/130304-moment-birth-5D3-7109b-w7.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/130304-moment-birth-5D3-7109b-w7-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/130304-moment-birth-5D3-7109b-w7-342x300.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moment of Birth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are very few moments on earth that match the birth of a baby. Such wonder, awe, and love. It was a privileged to be asked by the parents to be there and photograph the big event.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The full story behind this delivery room photo shoot (lighting, metering, color temperature issues, and RAW file conversion) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=3910\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was using a Canon EF 17-40mm f\/4L lens at this point in the process. Not long after taking the photo in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=3926\">The Baby is On the Way<\/a>, I zoomed from 17 to 40 mm to catch the moment of birth.<\/p>\n<p>The lighting was far more contrasty than it appears in this photo. The baby was lit by the fluorescent lights in the ceiling, but hidden in the shadows. The doctor&#8217;s left hand was in the bright light of a spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>I used Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) to process the RAW file. I adjusted the overall exposure using the &#8220;Exposure&#8221; slider. I adjusted the &#8220;Temperature&#8221; slider a bit, and then moved the &#8220;Tint&#8221; slider to the plus side to counteract the overall green tone caused by the fluorescent lights. Then I used the &#8220;Shadows&#8221; slider to pull the baby up out of the shadows.\u00c2\u00a0 I pulled the &#8220;Highlights&#8221; to the negative side to tone down the bright highlight on the doctors left hand. I decreased the Luminance Noise that was caused by the high ISO setting and increased the Luminance Detail.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo Data: Canon 5D Mark III. Canon EF 17-40mm f\/4L lens at 40 mm. f\/7.1, 1\/125 sec., ISO 3200.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To learn all about exposure, metering, depth of field, working with different light sources and matching the white balance of your camera to the color temperature of the light, read <em>Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies<\/em>. It has a five star rating at Amazon.com and it is one of the most comprehensive books on exposure currently available. You can learn <a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.com\/learn\/exp_book\/exp_book.html\">all about the book in this article<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0470647620\/jimdotycom-20\">order it here at Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The best books on Adobe Camera Raw and how to process RAW files for maximum quality are by Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe. Learn more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=3384\">Mastering Photoshop &amp; Lightroom: Adobe Camera Raw (ACR)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are very few moments on earth that match the birth of a baby. Such wonder, awe, and love. It was a privileged to be asked by the parents to be there and photograph the big event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,13,26,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing-and-software","category-general","category-lighting","category-photographs","category-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3942,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}