I wasn’t really inspired by anything today. I think I’m going to have few days like this through the year. Took a drive around town but nothing jumped out at me. So I sat for a while looking at the buildings and I liked the shadows on these buildings. A basic black and white architectural detail study. PSE6 with Nik Silver Efex conversion.…
Month: January 2011
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The photo pretty much sums up the day. Winter is still here. I don’t think I have ever taken so many ice pictures as I have this month. Pentax K20D, DA17-70 Frozen Ford
Learning curve
Since I’m working on my 365 photo project this year, I find myself out shooting more than past winters. The area I live in doesn’t have grand vistas to photograph – no snow-covered mountains – no charming rural scenes. There is a lot of rural areas, of course, but “charming” isn’t a word I would use to describe them. We don’t have…
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We are getting a little more snow today in southwest PA. Driving around town I spotted this railing and snow-covered steps in front of a church. I thought I would try a little more “normal” shot today. I was thinking black and white when I shot it, visualizing a high contrast “abstract” street type shot. I’m not sure if I succeeded…
A few more shots from yesterday
Just posting a few more shots I did yesterday. All of these photos seem like they were taken in a rurual area. Actually, this is a farm in the middle of an upscale suburban neighborhood, right across the street from a large shopping mall. I did various processing on the photos, using what I thought was best for the shots.…
365-19
Winter around here just seems to lend itself to textural photos. Everything is a bit drab. Nature is idle, just waiting for new life in spring. I have to thank SkeletalMess again for the textures. I don’t have the stock or inclination to make my own just yet. Pentax K20D, DA17-70 Branch
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Out shopping today instead of shooting. I saw this balloon on the ceiling at a mall, two stories above the children’s play area. Had to do a little work in PSE6 with curves, contrast, etc. to get it looking halfway nice. Still a little noisy but not too bad. Shot with the Lumix LX-3. Toy Go Bye-bye
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Experimenting with macro again. I took even more pictures of ice today but tried to avoid selecting yet another ice shot for my 365. The “moon” in this shot is actually a small crystal “switch”, about 3-4mm in size, on a small 4″ glass electric guitar figurine. The “stars” are, of course, dust! Shot with my 28mm Super-Takumar lens reverse mounted and Sunpak flash.…
365-16
Watching too much playoff football this weekend (go Steelers!) instead of finding photo subjects. I’m still holding off taking a picture of my coffee though. Out to the porch and captured some ice hanging from the downspout. There’s a bit of a creepy face in there somewhere at least. Pentax K20D, DA17-70 Center Ice
Guitar Pics – moving camera technique
Just thought I would post another picture I took today that I like. I have a large glass that’s full of guitar pics of various size, thickness and materials. They add a lot of tonal options on both acoustic and electric guitar. This is a long exposure where basically I framed the shot, snapped the shutter and moved the camera…
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