This old scale has been in my family for years. I think it came from my mother’s side… Anyway, I have photographed it before. My best guess is that those other photos were taken back in 1990 when I was at RIT. Those photos were taken on a medium-format camera with Tri-X film.
This latest photo was taken with a digital camera (Panasonic FZ1000) and I chose to work with the RAW image format this time. I’m finding myself slowly warming up to RAW – but not ready to jump in with both feet yet – so I’m shooting both JPG and RAW at the same time. For reference here’s the JPG version of the same image. Extracting as much data/detail out of the shadows of the RAW was pretty cool. As you can see I also did some minor rotation and cropping to square-up the image.
Exposure on both JPG and RAW (technically .RW2 files) was:
f 3.4
1/1300 second
ISO 125
-0.7 exposure bias