Sound Shooters: EMP museum and Affinity Photo

Hitomi Dames

EMP museum and Affinity Photo

By Hitomi Dames

Finally we went to the EMP museum at Seattle Center when my husband’s friend and his family came to Seattle this summer!

At the EMP museum you are allowed to take photos without flash, which is very nice. The entrance of "THE LURE OF HORROR FILM" was cool, so I wanted to get a few shots. But I had set the ISO to the factory default and sadly I didn't remember how to adjust the ISO to high, in order to shoot with a faster speed. So I was forced to use a slow speed handholding the camera.

The shutter speed was 0.5 second for these screaming faces on the wall along the stairs entering to "The Lure of  Horror Film."  (image below) 

  ƒ/5.0, FL-17 mm,  Shutter Speed-0.5sec, ISO-1600

During post processing, I used Depth of Field Blur Filter with Affinity Photo. Affinity Photo is a brand new Mac program that can do just about all that Photoshop can do.

For this gigantic tower of string instruments, you may want to lay on the floor to shoot like Sam, our friend's son was doing (below).

 ƒ/4.5, FL-20 mm, Shutter Speed 1/15, ISO-1600

Left below is the image as I lay shooting.

I created a kaleidoscope image and a fish eye image from the images above A & B.

◊ kaleidoscope - created with image A

 Created this kaleidoscope from image A

1. Open a file in Affinity Photo

2. Rotate the image 90 º anti-clockwise from Document

3. Duplicate the original image

4. Choose Filters > Distort > Mirror (See the drop-down menu below)

5. Pop-up Mirror control: You can choose numbers of mirror; manipulate Input and Output

◊ Lens Distortion (FISH EYE) - created with image B

1. Open a file in Affinity Photo

2.  Click the Lens tab

3. Slide the Distortion until you are satisfied. I stopped @ 72%.

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