Manseki on the Attack: Serendipitous Camera Mistake

Panasonic LX100 at an effective 28mm — 1/125 sec, f/3.5, ISO 200 —
map & image data — nearby photos

Serendipitous Camera Mistake

Manseki Kanemitsu flys by

昨日サイクリングをして大阪へ行きました。途中で金光万石さんの写真を撮ったけれども、カメラの設定のミスのせいでかなり露出過度にしまった。
写真は良くなかったが、ソフトで調整してから上の結果を出せました。結果は本人と同じ位格好良いだと思います。

Out on a cycle ride to Osaka yesterday, I snapped a photo of cycling buddy
Manseki Kanemitsu as we road. The photo was wildly overexposed due to a camera-settings mistake on my part,
but with some futzing in Lightroom I made something of it that I like.

I was using the new Panasonic LX100 that I wrote about the
other day, but trying it in a different mode where I control both the
shutter speed and aperture, and let the camera adjust the image-sensor
sensitivity to suit the specific brightness of the moment. In this case I
wanted a slower shutter so that movement in the frame (the wheels and the
background) were blurred, but I neglected to realize that the scene was
simply too bright for the settings I'd chosen, and so even though the
camera lowered the image-sensor sensitivity to its lowest, it was still
overwhelmed by the flurry of photons.

It's just as well, because the result above is probably more cool than
what I would have gotten with proper settings. I'll take it.