All the entries on chromasia are placed into one of seven primary categories: six to reflect the aspect ratio of the image, and the seventh to indicate that an image isn’t available as a print. Additionally, each photograph may be assigned to one of more additional categories or subcategories, e.g. my HDR category, self-portrait category, children category, and so on.
My 'photo friday' category is for my submissions to the weekly Photo Friday challenges.
I've spent the last couple of days wondering what to post to close out the year and then came across this entry on momentaryawe.com (run by my good friend Catalin Marin): his twelve favourite shots from 2009, one from each month. So, with credit to Catalin for the idea, here are my twelve favourites for the preceding year. Had I selected images from the year as a whole I suspect that there would be a couple of changes, and I also suspect that some of you would make different choices from each month, but when I looked back through the images I'd posted this year these are the ones that gave me most pleasure to produce.
As always, let me know what you think.
On a different matter: don't forget that there are just a few days left in which to snap up a 15% discount on our Photoshop tutorials. Further details here:
http://www.chromasia.com/tutorials/online/
And finally: Happy New Year for 2010 :)
This is another portrait shot down at the souk in Dubai, shot on the same trip as this one. In some ways, I think I prefer this one – it's certainly more striking – but I do have a soft spot for the old gentleman in my previous shot, not least because I've now photographed him two years in a row.
Anyway, I don't think there's too much else I can tell you about this one other than that it was converted to black and white using the channel mixer (as described in this tutorial) then contrast adjusted and toned with a Curve. I also added a bit more light to his eyes (as described here) using a masked Curve, but that was about all that was done to this one.
As always, let me know what you think.
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12.46pm on 5/4/09 Canon 1Ds Mark II EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM 70mm f/4.0 1/60 aperture priority +1/3 evaluative 100 no RAW ACR minor rotation |
If you were a visitor at around this time last year you will probably remember that I posted quite a few shots of the Dubai International Financial Centre (The Gate #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7). When I shot it last year I was working on a project for a local gallery, and thoroughly enjoyed the shoot, but I certainly didn't expect to be shooting it again this year.
A couple of months ago though the DIFC got in touch as they'd found my 2008 images and wanted to licence them. They also asked me to spend another three days shooting the building and the Gate Village (comprised of shops, restaurants and galleries). So I've spent the last fews days shooting, and have a couple of thousand images to work through over the coming weeks. I probably won't post quite as many as I did last year, as I'm hoping to shoot some personal material while I'm here too, but I did think that this one was worth sharing.
As with a lot of my recent stuff, it's a seven-shot HDR, but in this instance it was processed with FDRTools rather than Photomatix Pro.
As always, let me know what you think, even if it is to tell me that you're totally fed up with me posting HDR images :)
This is the first of two HDR images from Barcelona. This one was taken near the Olympic stadium and the tall structure to the left of the image is a communications tower. Of the two Libby prefers this one but I think that tomorrow's has the edge.
As with most of my recent HDR images this was processed with Photomatix Pro using the Details Enhancer method (as described in my HDR images: part two tutorial, but in this case I used a three shot rather than seven shot sequence (the 5D will only auto-bracket three shots while the 1Ds Mark II can shoot seven).
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3.23pm on 23/7/08 Canon 5D EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM 40mm f/8.0 1/160, 1/640 and 1/2500 aperture priority n/a evaluative 100 no RAW Photomatix Pro perspective corrected |
I took part in the annual Fleetwood Wreck Trek today, a six mile walk over the sands of Morecambe Bay with guided visits to the Wyre Light (an abandoned lighthouse) and the site of Stella Marie wreckage on North Wharf Sands. When I got back I discovered that most of my shots of the lighthouse were terrible, which didn't surprise me as it was raining when we got there and the sky was dull and flat, but what did surprise me though is how much my legs ached - I obviously need to get off my bum a bit more often :-)
Anyway, my shots of what's left of the Stella Marie wreck were also pretty hopeless, but I did shoot a series of shots of this structure. As with most of my recent HDRs, this one was constructed from a seven shot sequence using Photomatix Pro.
I'll take another look of the shots I took of the Wyre Light, and the wreck, and will post something tomorrow if I can salvage any of them.
All the shots I've posted this week were from the Blackpool Pride 2008 festival, and all were shot on Blackpool's North Pier. This one, on the other hand, was taken from the North Pier, and as you can see, the beach was a lot quieter than the pier.
Update: following a couple of the comments below I re-evaluated the composition and decided that it would look better if the horizon wasn't placed in the centre of the frame. So, I've gone for a 16x9 crop this time instead of the original 2x1. If you're interested, the original crop is here:
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12.44pm on 17/5/08 Canon 1Ds Mark II EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM 165mm f/5.6 1/320 aperture priority +2/3 evaluative 100 no RAW C1 Pro 2x1 |
This is my penultimate shot from Dubai, and probably my favourite portrait in quite some time. If you're interested, the original is here:
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As you can see, I haven't done much in terms of the content (a bit of minor cloning in the background), but did spend quite some time getting the black and white conversion right. In this instance, I used the Channel Mixer, biased towards the blue channel, to accentuate the details in his face and hair.
I'd be interested to hear how you think this one compares to yesterday's.
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2..31pm on 27/4/08 Canon 1Ds Mark II EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM 67mm f/5.6 1/50 aperture priority +0.0 evaluative 100 no RAW RAW Developer no |
This was taken at Al Seef in Dubai, and I think I would have liked the shot anyway, but the fact that they're all standing on one leg meant that this was a shot I couldn't resist.
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5.26pm on 23/4/08 Canon 1Ds Mark II EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM 70mm f/5.6 1/85 aperture priority +0.0 evaluative 100 no RAW C1 Pro no |
When I was younger I used to enjoy climbing – not in a north face of the Eiger sort of way, but I did enjoy it. The older I've got though, the more I really don't like heights, so struggled a bit with this one. It was taken from the helipad of the building I shot the Burj Dubai from, and what made it especially unnerving was that there were absolutely no safety measures: no guard rails, no netting, just a long drop down.
Anyway, I was perfectly safe, and didn't get within five feet of the edge, but my knees were feeling decidedly rubbery by the time I'd composed the shot and taken the three images I used for the HDR. And if you're interested, the building on the right of this image is the one that was on the left of my shot of the Burj Dubai; i.e. this one was taken about 90° to the left.
The shot I'm going to put up tomorrow, while nowhere near as dramatic, is probably one of my favourite HDRs in recent months. It was also taken from much nearer the ground :-)
As I mentioned yesterday, unless something especially exciting happens, or I come up with a new way to photograph this scene, this will be the last of the shots of the stranded ferry Riverdance.
As for this one: it's another attempt to capture the scale of the scene, but this time I wanted to focus on the salvage going on in and around the boat, rather than just the boat itself.
In terms of post-production, this one was relatively straightforward other than the fact that I altered the colour temperature when I processed the RAW file (as described in my first digital workflow tutorial); i.e. it's considerably warmer than the actual scene.
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4.48pm on 6/2/08 Canon 1Ds Mark II EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM 70mm f/4.0 1/640 aperture priority +0.0 evaluative 100 no RAW C1 Pro 2x1 |
When I post a shot in my beachcombing category it's normally quite a safe bet that nobody else has photographed the bucket, or piece of driftwood, or whatever else it is I happen to stumble across as I wander along the beach; i.e. there's no competition, and the shot stands or falls on its own merits (or lack of them).
In this case though, there are hundreds of photographers taking photographs of this stranded ferry, so I wanted to make sure that I got at least one decent shot today – and I'm pleased with this one. Because of the angle it was taken from, it doesn't do a great job of conveying the scale of this boat, but I'm pretty pleased with the end result nonetheless.
I haven't posted the EXIF data, as this was an HDR constructed from three bracketed exposures, but all were taken at around 180mm with my 70-200mm zoom.
As always, let me know what you think.
It's not often that I put up a shot that I'd like to be remembered by, but this may well turn out to be one of them. And as with yesterday's shot, this was taken outside our house as Rhowan and I waited for everyone else to get ready for a walk.
The original shot is here:
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The post-processing was similar to yesterday's, insofar as I added some blur to the outer areas, but this one was processed in LAB Color mode (the topic of next month's tutorial), hence the unusual colouring. I may well include this in the LAB Color tutorial as it is a good example of how a LAB Curve can be used to dramatically change the colours and colour balance of a photograph.
Update: Paul left an interesting comment earlier when he said "If it wasn't for those 3 or 4 stray hairs over her eye I would rate this as your best", so here's another version, minus the stray hairs. If you'd like to see the slightly hairier version, it's here:
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And on a totally different note …
You may well remember a spate of baby shots back in January of this year (this one, for example), that we were shooting for a book. The book – Baby Photography Now – has now been published and we should take delivery of 70 copies some time over the next few days. If you’re interested in buying a signed copy you can purchase one from our new ‘store’ page here:
Five of the six shots I'll be putting up from our holiday last week were processed using Raw Developer, with very little additional work within Photoshop. This one, on the other hand, was post-processed a little more extensively. And I know, this sort of soft-focus effect is a bit of a cliché, but I think it suits this image.
Oh, and this is the more angelic shot of Rhowan that I mentioned on Monday, and even I have a hard time believing that it's a photograph of the same child ;-)
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5.45pm on 17/7/07 Canon 1Ds Mark II EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM 160mm f/2.8 1/320 aperture priority +0.0 evaluative 100 no RAW RAW Developer 1x1 |
Libby suggested that I should explain this one, as the reality of the situation isn't immediately apparent, but I'd rather not, at least not immediately. Suffice to say that it's a shot of Rhowan, it wasn't posed, and despite appearances to the contrary, she's very much alive and well ;-)
Update: following warwick's comment below, perhaps I should explain ...
Libby and I took Milly, Rhowan, and Harmony to the beach today, and in amongst all the other games they played, they buried each other in the sand. The bow around Rhowan's neck was decorative, as was the seaweed around her waist ( you can't see it in this shot). Anyway, the bottom line is that the reality is somewhat less traumatic than warwick's first impression.
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3.02pm on 4/6/07 Canon 5D EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM 59mm f/5.6 1/250 aperture priority +0.0 evaluative 100 no RAW C1 Pro 1x1 |
I'm not entirely convinced I've got this one right, but it is a technique I'll use again. What I do like about it though is way it clearly demonstrates the difference between Rhowan and Harmony's physical competence. Rhowan, who will be six this August, is quite capable, while Harmony (who turned four in February) clearly has some way to go :-)
Update: thanks for all the great comments, they're much appreciated, not least because I wasn't sure that I'd got this one right – so it's good to hear that most of you disagree with me.
On another matter: I probably won't be posting many new entries over the next week or so as I'm concentrating on getting the online tutorials sorted out. If you haven't already seen it, I'm about half way through a basic Curves tutorial. I'm pleased with it so far, but if you do have any constructive comments I'd really like to here them.
Update #2: my apologies for the continuing lack of new material, but things have been a bit hectic here. Libby and I, and our three youngest, have all had colds – which really hasn't helped – and yesterday my new laptop died. Well, it looks like the hard drive has failed, which is bordering on a major catastrophe. I have all my recent images backed up, but haven't run a full back since the start of March; i.e. I've lost lots of emails, some work I was doing that needed to be completed by yesterday, the latest section of the new Curves tutorial, and so on.
So, today I need to go over to Manchester to let an Apple Genius look at my MacBook Pro and I really hope that they can recover some of the data I've lost :-/
Anyway, the long and the short of it is that there won't be any new material in the short-term. I'll keep you posted.
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around 2.27pm on 27/4/07 Canon 5D EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM 40mm f/5.6 mostly 1/1300 aperture priority +0.0 evaluative 100 no RAW C1 Pro minor |
As promised, here's the second shot of this undeniably cute little lad, and I have to say that this is probably one of my favourites of the baby portraits I've put up in recent weeks.
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10.00am on 23/2/07 Canon 5D EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM 70mm f/2.8 1/60 manual n/a evaluative 100 580EX RAW C1 Pro 1x1 |
Yesterday, I mentioned that I had two shots of this type that I liked and that neither of them were perfect. Well, I've ditched the one I intended to put up in favour of this one, which is as near perfect as I think this type of shot gets. You're quite free to disagree with me, but this one is exactly the type of image I was after: lots of detail, razor sharp (unlike yesterday's, which was a bit soft), and interesting colours and tones.
A few of you asked how these are done:
- set up a source of smoke in between the camera and a dark background. I used a joss stick.
- light the scene from the side. I used my 580EX as the main source of illumination for this one, triggered using an ST-E2 transmitter.
- set the exposure accordingly. I used a manual setting of f/16.0 for this shot coupled with a shutter speed of 1/30. From what I've read, if you're using a source of illumination other than flash, you probably need a shutter speed of 1/125 or above. You also need to be careful to pre-focus. I had the camera about 3 feet from the smoke for this one and even with an aperture of f/16.0 the DoF is only 1" deep.
- take a lot of shots. I took over three hundred to get these two. There were a couple more that were ok, but only two I was really happy with.
As for the processing:
- invert the image. This makes the background white rather than black.
- adjust the overall contrast using a Curve.
- tone the smoke using a Curve, Hue/Saturation, or similar.
- use Noise Ninja or other noise reduction software as appropriate.
And that's about it. Let me know what you think.
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9.43pm on 12/10/06 Canon 20D EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM f/16.0 1/30 manual n/a evaluative 100 580EX RAW C1 Pro 1x1 |
This is one of the images I mentioned yesterday, that Camilla liked and I didn't think I could process. Anyway, I had another look at it today and came up with a version that I'm pleased with. I think the main problem I had with this one is that I had a preconceived idea about how I wanted it to look (bright, punchy, and so on) and the lighting conditions at the time just didn't work for that sort of image. Anyway, having processed it in a way that's more sympathetic to the original shot I think I've come up with a version that's ok.
On another matter, I'm selling my 70-200 f/4 L as I'm going to replace it with the f/2.8 IS. I'm selling it boxed, with the original manual, the optional ET-74 hood (not sure what this now costs, as I can't find one online, but suspect it's around £25.00) and a 67mm B+W MRC UV filter (which retails for around £30.00). Jessops are currently selling it for £489.00 (without hood or filter) so I'd be happy to sell it for around £340.00. The lens itself is in mint condition but the hood has a couple of minor scratches. Email me if you're interested.
Just to let you know that I've now sold my 70-200 f/4. Thanks for all the interest.
Related to that: the cheapest price I can find for the 70-200 f/2.8 IS in the UK is £1248.98 from shopping4cameras.com. I'm not sure that it will be cheaper anywhere else but if anyone does know of a less expensive source then I'd be grateful if they could let me know.
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3.00pm on 30/8/06 Canon 20D EF 17-40 f/4L USM 35mm (56mm equiv.) f/8.0 1/500 aperture priority -2/3 evaluative 100 no RAW C1 Pro 16x9 |
As promised, here's Elvis, enjoying his pipe on Blackpool's Central pier.
Update: As of Friday 28th April, I've entered this in the Photo Friday challenge – Famous ;-)
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4.04pm on 21/4/06 Canon 20D EF 17-40 f/4L USM 34mm (54mm equiv.) f/5.6 1/60 aperture priority +0.0 (-2/3 FEC) evaluative 100 580EX RAW C1 Pro 1x1 |
While I don't expect that there'll be any controversy over this shot, I do suspect that some of you will like it, and some of you won't. Personally, I like this sort of graphic shot. My wife, on the other hand, calls them 'nothing shots'. "There's nothing there, it just a red wall". For me, it's about shape, and texture, and colour, but as I said, I don't imagine it will be to everyone's taste. Also, the Photo Friday challenge this week is 'Red', so I couldn't not enter this one.
On another matter: I probably won't be overly chatty over the next couple of days as I've got a stinking cold (probably serves me right for trudging round Blackpool in the snow yesterday) and Finley isn't overly well either. We suspect he's teething, but whatever the problem is I spent most of last night wandering aimlessly round the house with him. He finally settled at around 5am, but he's not had a great day today either, and I suspect we'll be shuffling aimlessly from room to room for a good portion of tonight too. So, I've not really been keeping up with your comments, and am miles behind with emails too. I'll try and catch up soon.
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9.30am on 12/3/06 Canon 20D EF 17-40 f/4L USM 20mm (32mm equiv.) f/5.6 1/30 aperture priority +0.0 evaluative 100 no RAW C1 Pro minor |
I didn't have anything much to put up tonight so, given that this week's Photo Friday challenge is Best of 2005, I thought I'd take the opportunity to repost a few of my favourites. I did try to pick one, but it wasn't possible: it was hard enough to whittle it down to four! Anyway, in the end I decided on don't look up #2, space, SG-Blackpool and those eyes again. There were many others I could have chosen, but these are the ones that I'm most attached to, in one way or another. They're also mostly the ones that you suggested yesterday, so thanks for helping me decide.
On another matter: I'd like to thank you all for visiting chromasia over the last twelve months. As always, you've provided great feedback and support, have been understanding when there have been technical problems with the site or I haven't been able to post for other reasons, and have continued to make this project worthwhile. Without you, I'd still take photographs, but I'm sure that the experience wouldn't be anywhere near as rewarding. So thank you, and I hope that you all have a great 2006.
On a personal note: 2005 has been a really hectic year. Finley was born back in August, work has been hectic, we've had numerous projects on the go in terms of sorting out our house, I visited China and so on. And while 2005 was enjoyable, it was bordering on being a little too hectic for my taste, so I'm hoping that 2006 will be a little more relaxed :-)
And finally, after months of trying to sort out the problems with chromasia's server, I've managed to migrate everything to the new server. As I write this the DNS changes haven't propagated so chromasia.com still points to the old server, but this should all sort itself out in a few days. Anyway, chromasia is now hosted/sponsored by Richard Jones who runs pixyBlog. Over the next twelve months or so Richard is going to be developing various online services for photographers and photo libraries, including a hosted photoblog solution and, all being well, I'll be piloting some of these for him in the months ahead. Anyway, many thanks to Richard for providing a home for chromasia.
I'd also like to thank a few other people while I'm here: my wife and kids, for putting up with me constantly disappearing to either take photographs or post-process them, and thanks too to John (Washington) for keeping me company while wandering around Blackpool and the surrounding coast.
So I guess that's about it for this year. Once again, thanks for all your support over the last twelve months, and I hope that you have a great new year :-)
John and I went for a walk along the beach this afternoon – between Blackpool and St. Annes – and came across this TV. Admittedly, it was a little further up the beach when we found it, but it would have been dark by the time the tide came in so we took the liberty of moving it. I think that John will be putting up a similar shot this evening and I'll be putting up a black and white version tomorrow.
Oh, and many thanks to John for lending me his 1Ds for this shot. My batteries had gone flat so I had to beg a few shots with his camera. I suspect he won't let me forget it in a hurry ;-)
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2.55pm on 28/12/05 Canon 1Ds EF 28-70 f/2.8L USM 70mm f/8.0 1/160 aperture priority -1/3 partial 100 no RAW C1 Pro minor rotation |
Update: At PhilB's suggestion, I've entered this one in this week's Photo Friday challenge, Depth of Field.
John and I went for a stroll round some of Blackpool's back streets this lunchtime and I came back with about 100 shots, but the only one I'm happy with is this one. There are probably a few more I'll be able to work on (or, more accurately, will have to work on), but this is the only one that really worked out as I intended. I guess that some days are just not photography days.
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11.54am on 18/12/05 Canon 20D EF 50mm f/1.4 USM f/2.8 1/250 aperture priority -1/3 evaluative 100 no RAW C1 Pro no |
Harmony, now just over two and a half, is mostly quite happy, often quite stroppy, and sometimes upset. In this case I can't even remember what the problem was: we'd be chatting, and taking photographs, and she asked me something to which the answer was no ... this was the result. I should add that two minutes later she was as right as rain, but for those few moments it seemed as though her world had become quite unbearable.
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2.01pm on 16/10/05 Canon 20D EF 50mm f/1.8 II f/2.2 1/125 aperture priority +0.0 evaluative 400 no RAW C1 Pro no |
I did try and take a few shots of our son today, but I wasn't particularly happy with any of them. The 'problem', such as it is, is that because he was late his skin is now quite dry, and he really doesn't look at his best. Hopefully he'll be looking a bit less traumatised in a few days time.
Anyway, we took the youngest three to the park this afternoon and Rhowan and Harmony spent quite a bit of time chasing around under this tree. Most are just a blur of movement, but occasionaly they paused long enough for me to get a focussed shot. This was my favourite of the bunch.
And thanks again for all the comments on Tuesday's shot; 186 comments must be some kind of record :-)
Update: Sorry, I should have mentioned that this is Harmony rather than Rhowan. Also, this was processed quite simply, i.e. it was colorised using the Hue/Saturation tool set to 45, 8, 0.
Update #2: I looked at the Photo Friday challenge earlier this week, and what with one thing and another I promptly forgot about it. But the theme this week is One so I thought this would make a good entry.
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5.32pm on 25/8/05 Canon 20D EF 50mm f/1.8 II f/2.0 1/125 aperture priority -1/3 evaluative 100 no RAW C1 Pro no |
I'm a bit late putting up tonight's entry as I've been processing a set of images that need to be finished by tomorrow, of which this is one – a shot of the Big Wheel on Blackpool's Central pier.
Update: I decided to enter this shot for this week's Photo Friday challenge – Complexity.
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11.32am on 2/8/05 Canon 20D EF 17-40 f/4L USM 17mm (27mm equiv.) f/8.0 1/160 aperture priority +0.0 evaluative 100 no RAW C1 Pro minor |
It's a while since I entered anything in one of the Photo Friday challenges but I couldn't not enter this week's challenge – Somber.
[French sombre, from Old French, from *sombrer, to cast a shadow, from Late Latin subumbrare, from Latin sub umbra, in shadow].
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4.17pm on 23/7/05 Canon 20D EF 70-200 f/4L USM 200mm (320mm equiv.) f/5.6 1/200 aperture priority -2/3 (-2/3 FEC) evaluative 200 580EX RAW C1 Pro flipped horizontally |
This is another shot from my recent trip with John, Paul and Ioannis, and is probably the last I'll put up (as I messed up the rest of them). And as I mentioned one of John's shots yesterday it's Paul's turn today. Ioannis has also put up a shot of me and John.
Update: I've entered this shot in the Photo Friday Orange challenge.
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9.58pm on 23/6/05 Canon 20D EF 17-40 f/4L USM 40mm (64mm equiv.) f/4.0 1/50 aperture priority +0.0 evaluative 100 no RAW C1 Pro minor rotation |
I've put this up a bit early today as I think it's a great example of what we were talking about yesterday; i.e. altering a photograph to match a preconceptualised vision of a scene rather than simply producing some sort of literal representation. Let me know what you think.
Oh, and as you can see from the title, I've entered this one in this week's Photo Friday challenge, Space.
And finally: what story do you think this tells?
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2.37pm on 14/5/05 Canon 20D EF 17-40 f/4L USM 17mm (27mm equiv.) f/8.0 1/320 aperture priority -2/3 evaluative 100 no RAW C1 Pro minor rotation |
