Happy Independence Day everyone. I thought I’d pull a frame from an earlier post that kind of caught my eye on a second look. This is a frame I shot out at Austin’s Pioneer Farms, a small village with buildings and re-enactors that appear to be out of 1800s Texas. I got sent out to shoot a Fourth of July celebration, but unfortunately there was a very small crowd due to looming rain. I wondered around and made a few features then focused on the several American flags near the village’s entrance. I opened up the aperture a bit and got darkened corners because I was using a Nikon DX (crop) lens on a Nikon FX (full-frame) body. The result kind of looks like I shot it with a Holga. This is more or less exactly as it came off the camera. I dodged the middle of the flag a bit in Photoshop, but otherwise it hasn’t been touched.
