Walking through one of the restaurants on the P&O liner Arcadia one bright and sunny morning, en-route to the coffee machine, I spotted this lovely interplay of light and shadow on the tables set next to the windows.
I quickly shot a few compositions at different exposusre levels as we went past, with this being the best in terms of tonality and arrangement.
I knew when I took the exposures that this would be an ideal scene to convert to monochrome, removing any distracting colour and leaving the viewer free to concentrate on the more important and evocative aspects of the image.
And so it proved to be, once I'd got round to processing the original RAW file a few months after the end of our holiday.
Filename - ship arcadia restaurant 01.jpg
Camera - Nikon D3100
Lens - 18-55mm zoom @ 18mm
Exposure - 1/4000sec @ f8, ISO400
Location - Somewhere in the Mediterranean sea
This image - 800x640px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - -1.3 stops exposure compensation used to control brightness.
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