This blog post is all about not getting to trigger happy with that delete button on the back of you camera. This photograph was taken the other day after Kari and I went to watch fireworks at Thanksgiving Point. The other photos from this event will be up tomorrow when I go through them all.

Anyways back on subject. Don’t discard any images on the spot, unless its blurry or poor composition. Why? Because you could get a cool shot like this one. What was technically wrong with this shot? It was pretty darn underexposed. I didn’t pop the flash bright enough to properly illuminate Kari. But to my defense we were rushing to the car to beat traffic home (which we failed at anyways). I just happend to have my camera around my neck and flash mounted. I forgot I left my flash on manual mode to the previous setting of to underexposed to light this photograph properly. So this photo was taken from the hip while carrying a tripod and numerous other object while walking backwards. If I wasn’t in such a rush I would have more than likely deleted this photo without a second thought because it was so underexposed.

But lucky for me I didn’t, and because I shot it in raw I was able to pull all this detail out. I didn’t even know there was smoke from the fireworks in the photo until I brightened it up.  And because it was so underexposed I introduced a lot of noise to the image when brightening it. But I like the look of the noise in this black and white photo. A keeper for sure!

Here is a detail shot where you can see the noise and Kari’s pretty face.