Looking at – and seeing – the world
January 1, 2021 20 Comments
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🍺
There is another recent bus shelter photo here .
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Technique: TG-5 at 25mm (equiv); 1600 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 6 Dec 2020.
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December 20, 2020 9 Comments
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Bus shelter, dawn breaking.
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Technique: TG-5 at 25mm (equiv); 3200 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 15 Dec 2020.
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October 12, 2020 4 Comments
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Seats in a bus shelter; Bristol, 24 Apr 2013.
The narrow and tilted seats, with intervening arm rests, that are designed to make it impossible for homeless people to sleep on them.
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Technique: G11 PowerShot at 140mm (35mm equiv); 200 ISO; converted to mono with Silver Efex Pro 2, using the Silhouette preset.
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October 10, 2020 13 Comments
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Bus shelter at sunrise.
The first image of this bus shelter, photographed very differently, is here .
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 200 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 5 Sept 2020.
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September 22, 2020 6 Comments
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Technique: TG-5 at 28mm (equiv); 500 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the B&W 12 profile; south Bristol; 8 Aug 2020.
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June 2, 2020 4 Comments
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Other images in the Bristol Street Scenes series are here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 . Searching on the “street” tag (below here) will also find these posts.
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Technique: TG-5 at 57mm (equiv); 1600 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Modern 01 profile; Bedminster, south Bristol; 29 Jan 2019.
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May 4, 2020 12 Comments
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Walking in the lockdown, walking up a hill towards a bus shelter that was being visually roasted by the sun’s early light. The was a colourful advertisement on the far wall of the shelter and, as the warm hues of the sunrise played on this poster, reflections flew everywhere and the interior of the shelter was ablaze with bright, warm colours.
Technique: a blogging colleague, Michael Scandling, recently put out a very useful post (here) discussing the quality of digital images. Many photographers try for images that are as noise-free and sharp as possible, which can result in pictures that, to use his words, are plastic and clinical – and I know exactly what he means. Some think that all images should be technically perfect, whereas others consider content and narrative more important – and I’m 100% with the contenters and narrators. In his post, Michael went on to say that, in post processing, he often uses noise reduction sparingly, that he sometimes selectively softens areas of a picture and artificially introduces grain.
And so to trying out some of Michael’s points here – no luminance noise reduction; artificially introduced grain; Lightroom’s Camera Vivid profile; increased Vibrance – and I like the result, and am certainly going to bear these points in mind for future pictures >>> thank you, Michael!
And looking at all these colours brings a story to mind. Forty or more years ago, in Kenya, I was giving a slideshow (remember slideshows?) to a group of American aid workers who were lolling around smoking pot, and I’ll always remember the almost ecstatic tones of ” … oh wow, man! …… THE ******* COLOURS, MAN! ……”. Halcyon days … and no, before you ask, I didn’t take up the offer of any of their heavenly medicine … already, at that tender age, being a truly confirmed disciple of the … Electric Soup … courtesy, in those days, of the excellent output of Kenya Breweries, which even included a local version of Guinness!
Click onto the “early morning” tag (below) to see more images from the early hours of the day.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 800 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 5 Apr 2020.
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April 23, 2020 10 Comments
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City centre bus stop, innocent enough, but the Devil (or then again, The FATman) lurks in the detail … that dark silhouette in front of the distant patch of blue. You’re right … its not safe to go out in the dark …
Other images in the Bristol Street Scenes series are here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . Searching on the “street” tag (below here) will also find these posts.
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Technique: Z 6 with 70-300 Nikkor lens at 70mm; 12,800 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Pop profile; central Bristol; 29 Nov 2019.
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April 22, 2020 8 Comments
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Bus shelter; early morning.
Other images in the Bristol Street Scenes series are here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 . Searching on the “street” tag (below here) will also find these posts.
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Technique: Z 6 with 70-300 Nikkor lens at 300mm; 12,800 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Landscape v2 profile; central Bristol; 29 Nov 2019.
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March 30, 2020 6 Comments
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Standing beside a road – at a bus stop, at dawn – and tilting the world.
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Technique: TG-5 at 25mm (equiv); 3200 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; rotated; south Bristol; 1 Jan 2020.
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