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A rainy night in Dumbarton town centre.
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Following my motto of bad light equals black and white, here is one I captured midday on a blustery overcast day in Northern Minnesota on Lake Superior.
If you look close you can see the icicles hanging from the rocks. I had walked on the top of the pier minutes earlier and could have gone ice skating. The waves had been so high everything including some of the chains between the posts were encased in ice. It may not look all that high from this angle but looking down off the pier standing on the ice was quite concerning.
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Moments are delicate and fleeting in nature. A lifetime is made up of billions of them. We must live every single moment that we have, in the eternal wisdom, so that when we rejoin the Light the impurities of doubt burn away.
I’m coming to the conclusion that wobbly camera pictures are a bit like painting. You use the scene as a paintbrush and sweep it over the sensor. The downside is that you just get about half a second to paint :)
A potter making a pot first creates the shape and fires it. Then she decorates it and glazes it and it looks all wrong. And then she fires it again and a magical transformation occurs. It comes out looking like wonderful art…
So the capture is the pot and the processing is the decoration. I just hope for a bit of magic :)
This is another wobbly one taken on the walk we did a few days ago in Cirencester Park on the Bathurst Estate. We were walking down a long straight lane with field hedges on either side bristling with twigs, with a leafless copse in the distance. I was just holding the camera at waist high while we walked and talked, using Live View to point it and clicking the shutter again and again…
It was the talking that did it, of course. Some of these shots were quite interesting.
Because of the graphic quality of the composition and the brushlike strokes of the twigs I decided to go all dark and moody for Donnerstagmoncrom today. I wanted to convey being outside in a damp, grey, too-long winter…
I'll post a link to the in-camera image in a comment as the processing has brought out a lot that is not obvious in the capture.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Monochrome Monday and 100x :)
[Hand wobbled in the dismal grey of winter light.
Developed in Capture One reducing Clarity, increasing Structure, and retrieving the highlights in the sky. A fair whack of Dehaze. I tried to even out the dark in the hedges and upped the saturation to give Nik Silver Efex more to play with. But I was going overall for dark hedges with just a little detail.
Processed in Affinity reducing Clarity a bit and then sharpened quite a lot with High Pass/Linear blend to bring out the brushlike effect of the twigs.
Converted to mono with Silver Efex with more tinkering. Dark edges and light blue toning for that subtle winter cool melancholia…
16:9 crop.]
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Atrapar esta imagen entre la niebla en el frente de la querida Estación en el mítico Barrio Meridiano V, La Plata, Argentina.
This was taken in the modern Blavatnik building which forms a part of the Tate Modern in London. I love the weird angles of the building and the industrial looking interior. The way the light was spilling in through the windows onto the stairs made this an obvious target to photograph but needed a focal point. A short wait was all it took. Canon EOS 6D & EF 28-80mm f/2.8-4.0L
“We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are. - Bill Watterson
A grab shot in the window of HSBC in Canary Wharf. I liked the strong diagonal, the reflections from behind me in the window (although I partially shaded these with my hand to avoid them covering the detailed areas) and the unusual display of what looked like record covers. I noticed I didn't get questioned by security the whole time despite walking around with a huge camera bag and a big DSLR & lens, even in Canary Wharf. I clearly must look far less suspicious when walking around with my wife! Taken on a Canon EOS 6D with EF 28-80mm f/2.8-4.0L. 28mm, 1/15th sec @ f/5.6, ISO 1250.