Looking at – and seeing – the world
July 11, 2020 2 Comments
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Beside the harbour; Aberaeron, west Wales; 24 Sept 2014.
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Technique: D700 with 70-300 Nikkor lens at 300mm; 400 ISO.
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July 9, 2020 6 Comments
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Looking at this, the solid black border (an area in shadow) on the right and the dark plants of the hedge along the bottom of the frame form a prominent black “V” which is pointing down, out the frame, towards lower right, out of our view.
Given this, it is then a case of deciding whether those shadows of a plant are conforming by diving down into that “V” and so exiting our view too. Or whether, being ardent non-conformists, they are experiencing a lightbulb moment and flying back out towards a utopia of their own.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 320 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the B&W Green Filter profile; south Bristol; 20 Apr 2020.
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July 8, 2020 8 Comments
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Looking through a parked car’s dew-soaked windscreen towards the rectangular silhouette of the rear view mirror; the rising sun provides backlighting and purple lens flare.
There are earlier images in this Parked Car series here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 . Each will open in a separate window.
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); 250 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Modern 07 profile; south Bristol; 22 Apr 2020.
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July 2, 2020 2 Comments
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There are earlier Modern Housing posts here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 800 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 26 Apr 2020.
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June 17, 2020 6 Comments
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There are earlier images in this Parked Car series here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 . Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: TG-5 at 49mm (equiv); 800 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 7 June 2020.
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June 12, 2020 8 Comments
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Rainy day on Tadham Moor, on the Somerset Levels; 14 May 2013.
As the rain poured down, the view through the window of my car, towards a nearby Willow.
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Technique: Canon G11 PowerShot at 140mm (35mm equiv); 200 ISO; conversion to mono, selective colour restoration and toning in Silver Efex Pro 2, starting at the Antique Portrait preset.
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June 6, 2020 Leave a comment
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Looking out from my car at a stormy day, on the rooftop car park at Broadwalk Shopping Centre in south Bristol; 15 Feb 2014.
A black and white image, starker and darker than reality as such images often are, and with the blue of the sky re-introduced.
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Technique: Canon G11 PowerShot at 28mm (35mm equivalent); 400 ISO; Silver Efex Pro 2, starting at the Strong Infrared Low Contrast preset.
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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 30, 2020 8 Comments
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Reflection in tall windows of a block of flats in central Bristol; 20 Aug 2013.
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Technique: D800 with 70-300 Nikkor lens at 300mm; 400 ISO.
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May 19, 2020 2 Comments
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Early morning, and I was in Swanshard Lane, a small, meandering back road on the Somerset Levels north of Glastonbury. It was misty, and most of my photographs were of the flat landscape – I love taking pictures in murk! But by the little bridge over the River Sheppey there are a couple of old houses and, as I looked back at them, the rising sun broke weakly through the mist and provided some weak side lighting on their old walls and their tiled, mossy roofs.
Click onto the “early morning” tag (below) to see more images from the early hours of the day.
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Technique: Z 6 with 70-300 Nikkor lens used in DX (= APS-C) format to give 450mm; 3200 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait v2 profile; Swanshard Lane, on the Somerset Levels southwest of Wells; 2 Aug 2019.
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