Although Peace seems dark, blurred and far away ....there is a Light!

February 3, 2018

please also view → flic.kr/p/jmjr79 Queen Anne's lace, winter blue edition

Death devours all lovely things:

Lesbia with her sparrow

Shares the darkness,–presently

Every bed is narrow.

Unremembered as old rain

Dries the sheer libation;

And the little petulant hand

Is an annotation.

After all, my erstwhile dear,

My no longer cherished,

Need we say it was not love,

Just because it perished?

~ Passer Mortuus Est by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I noticed this fountain in late afternoon sun as I was riding by on my bike. The photos did not turn out as dramatic as I hoped. I used split toning in Lightroom 5 to get this effect.

Split Toned Grunge created using textures that I captured and then ran through Gradient Mapping and multiple filters.

Full sized textures are found at www.outsidethefray.com.

split tone for the win on this photo

i bounced a flash off the ceiling

CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II

Exposure0.008 sec (1/125)

Aperturef/2.0

Focal Length85 mm

ISO Speed800

Exposure Bias0 EV

FlashOn, Fired

Where do they come from? Where to they go?

Nikkor Q 135mm 1:2.8

Quite an extension from the base.

Have been playing with split-toning in LR3, something I've done very little of. Needless to say am interested in your thoughts.

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.

GX8 w/Kodak Cine Ektanon 63mm f/2.7

always love these sun flare shots

more from this session here: jfieldsphotography.com/blog/?p=873

La superbe photo d'André Giguère durant le thème "Bouteille" m'a convaincu d'acheter une feuille de plexiglas. Voici donc mon premier essai avec un duo de fourchettes. Traitement dans Lightroom: ajout d'un léger 'split-toning' (jaune pour les tons pâles et rouge pour les tons foncés), suppression des poussières.

Used split toning to add yellow to highlights and blue to shadows.

This is my first self-portrait in well over a year. I wanted to accentuate a rugged and exhausted look and create a strong visual impression.

Sarah & Airell

and the picture is distorted too, hehehe

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Have a wonderful HBW!

@ChrisPerriman

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Looks a bit like something from a drama at the theatre... but it is really an observation in the crowd - or the every day theatre if you like. There is something about the expression that awakes my curiousity.

Josie with headphones again. One Alien Bees AB-800 bounced into an umbrella 90 degrees to camera right. I think I shot this with my Contax G2. Split-toning done with Photokit Color.

La Tranche-sur-mer Vendée, France

Nikon D7000 / Nikon 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 VR lens / Adobe PS Lightroom 3

“The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being alive."

-- Peter from The Child Thief [by Brom]

Silhouette of 小猫王, who was a non-voluntary (as opposed to "involuntary", diction matters) model that day. Really, this dude can strike a pose just by striding off into any kinda distance.

A beautiful two tone garden snail shut up shop on my back garden patio. I moved him to a safer sanctuary before mr thrush gave him a rude awakening. I think the fine lines of the shell contrast with the ruggedness of the paving. Best viewed on black.

I really liked this hat display in a shop in Brighton, especially the one bottom left. Did anyone ever really wear a hat like that? It reminds me of one of my Mum's sayings 'If you want to get ahead, get a big hat'...:)