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A trip to manchester on sunday so the wide angle came with me too.
I think its the Nat West building on deansgate
Up and down the road in our worn down shoes.
Talking about good things and singing the blues.
You went your way and I stayed behind.
Be both knew it was just a matter of time.
You're living a dream,
Oh you on top.
My mind is aching,
And lord it won't stop.
That's how it happens living life by the drop.
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
Now I must start by asking you not to laugh.
This is a picture of my Christmas tree. And, more pertinently, it's also my second submission to my Monochrome 100x challenge.
No. Seriously.
Santa had already drunk several bottles of sherry before he fell down my chimney. What was I to do?
OK. Perhaps I'm a little self-deluded. But perhaps I can mitigate your opinion of me a little with a (long {sigh}) explanation.
Firstly, the monochrome challenge. I did say at the start of the challenge that I was allowing split-toning and this is a split-toned version of a black and white image (the split toning was orange/purple but I've shifted the hue a bit so it's more orange/blue now).
Secondly, the Christmas tree. Well, it's an ICM of the LED lights. If you're curious, see my previously published image, Air Traffic Control, for a straight version in the same series.
I mangled it for Mangle It Sliders Sunday. And the symmetry is part of that, using a mirror filter.
One of the reasons I have for attempting a 100x challenge (a small step for mankind, a huge step for me) on a monochrome theme was to wean myself off the Saturation/Vibrancy sliders. Perhaps you can see why from this.
Since starting this Flickr account, three years ago [goodness me... is it really that? I must be older than I thought... though that has been a frequent feeling for a very long time] I have become really curious about human visual perception. So much so that I have been to lectures by scientists on the subject, watched some documentaries, and even read bits here and there.
It's really quite interesting... if you are an odd sort of person.
Take symmetry. This sort of image is instantly appealing to our brains.
For the wrong reasons.
Once our minds have decided that this is six-fold symmetry it just analyses one spoke of the pattern, assumes the other five are the same... and then switches off.
It's appealing because the brain doesn't have to work hard. You might think that our brains are being lazy but really they are being efficient.
Put it this way, if our brains went about analysing images the way a computer does they would overheat and melt in an instant. Efficiency is a way of keeping cool and allowing our visual processing of moving images to be much more sophisticated than any current computer's capability.
But the short story is this: this image really is boring. But you knew that intuitively, didn't you?
As usual for SS I'll include a link to the original in-camera image so you can see how far Santa fell :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday and may your 100x bring you joy!
[Little camera, slow shutter, dark room, just the Christmas tree lights on. Wiggled.
Processed entirely in Affinity Photo.
First developed to increase the black point (equivalent to Levels) to darken the background (see the original where you can see quite a bit of ambient light clouding things).
High Pass filter, fairly aggressively slid, but (and this is key for the result) the blend mode was set to Difference (normally Linear Blend is used for sharpening with this adjustment). That resulted in interesting coloured outlines against a grey background.
Converted to black and white using B&W adjustment and sliding the sliders for the different colour contributions to get something interesting.
Split toned with orange/purple.
Hues shifted a bit, played with contrast a little, just tweaking really...
Then expanded the canvas, to give more room to play - Affinity's mirror filter is quite sophisticated and allows you to drag the cursor around on the image to change the origin of the mirror effect, so you can find something interesting - and used a mirror filter twice, once with two mirrors and once with six.
Dark vignette and we are done :)]
I've been wanting to do this for a long time (no, not drinking coke but shooting people :)) but just don't have the guts to point my camera at people and shoot them. However, when I was at a convention center watching my son competing in the science project contest, I thought of trying it. Equipped with my 70-300mm lens, so I can be as far from the subject :), I started shooting people left and right. At first I was a little scared that somebody might jumped at me and beat me up but I think I got used to it after a few shots :) I will try to post some more shots in the next few days.
I am still busy at work but will try to catch up with you...
Thanks for your visit, comments, and faves!
Have a great day my friends! :)
I really liked this falling apart shed that isn't too far from our subdivision.
I thought the subject really suited black and white processing. It has a subtle split toning applied.
A hot sunny August day and a cyclist pauses for a while on the cliff top at Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire with the Purbeck Hills of Dorset in the background
This is a white hydrangea, which I've not seen before. It's very beautiful and I processed this one as a split tone to take what little color there was out of the photo.
Been on vacation and will be back and catching up soon. Hope everyone is having a great July!
Finally got to do some outdoors stuff for my own pleasure!
30s at f22 with a 24-105L and canon 5d mark II
And quite a lot of tweaking
My award from you is a word or few, not a flashing/dancing/jumping or singing copy/paste item.
Those comments waste my time and will be erased
The use of this photo is allowed only with written authorization of Svante Oldenburg
I don't ever wanna fall in love again.
Don't wait for me, I'm no saint, you see.
At school, I had standardized testing from 8-11:30 so I only had 2 classes, which was nice.
I also took an awesome nap after school and 2 albums leaked that I've really been waiting for. My life is so interesting.
Explored! April 16, 2009
A split-tone image of water over a weir near Longsdon, Staffordshire.
The split-tone conversion was done using software I wrote myself.
Relics form a time when the Isle of Dogs was a commercial port, rather than a centre of financal services, a few of the Stothert & Pitt cranes were retained during the redevelopment of the Island in the 1990s.
An image captured at the North Norfolk Railway autumn steam gala 2016. The original RAW file was fine tuned in Adobe Photoshop then split-toned using an Adobe Lightroom preset filter.
Three panel panoramic image made with a Rolleiflex 2.8F camera w/ 80 2.8 Zeiss Planar lens. Scanned from original split toned gelatin silver prints.
I was on my way out to a walk through the woods and do some telephoto work of the surrounding hills. Just before the Glenwood trails entrance I noticed dozens of these little guys growing along the roadside.
I spent some time photographing different flowers that had opened to different amounts. A couple walks by and inquired about what I was photographing. I explained that I was taking close ups of the flowers. It's always good to try and find something interesting in things that most people would just pass by and not give a second glance.