A not-entirely-satisfying visit to Canary Wharf on an overcast day.
The Walala bridge:
Infra-Red:
Hawksmoor:
Canary Wharf | Gallery
Jelly
Rowney Warren | Gallery
A lovely hour or so at Rowney Warren with Royston Photographic Society’s landscape group. Click images for lightbox.
Tom
Untitled
Manual Work
Gone
I’ve Got You
Happenstance
Interesting. I don’t know why this is doing what it is doing. It’s a trial of eleven stacked exposures while I sign something. Full colour but cold white light on a black t-shirt with a black background. There’s a small amount of blue and green in the shirt, but I don’t think that accounts for the interesting colour blooming on the composited image. It’s not working as a strategy for capturing the 3D shape the sign makes in space, which was the motivation for this, but it’s something to bear in mind and experiment with more in future….
It seems to be movement. A composite of images of me sitting still didn’t do it.
Hmm.
Birth of a Star
Bored at home while a man services the air-source heat pump. It’s a rock and roll lifestyle at Cromwell Towers. Spent the morning taking this astronomical image of a blueberry.
White-Balance Breakthrough
I finally had the advice that enabled me to solve the white-balance problem for my IR images. I had been manually adjusting the Kelvin of my WB, assuming that that would surely cover all of the available points on the cool-to-warm spectrum of the WB on my R5. However if you use the shoot-to-set-WB function and shoot at something green - you get a workable balance from which to channel-swap and whatever to get the effect you want. Many thanks to Ann Miles and Jim Bennett for this.
So this is my first image with a natural-looking sky and spectral vegetation. It’s not art. But it is success!
Double exposure with just one in focus and from a slightly different position.
Botanic Gardens | Cambridge Camera Club
“Gossips”
Subtle double exposure. The ‘other’ image is a close-up of the bark, creating the dappled-colour effect on both trunk and foliage.
Karyotype
Old Chestnut
London Underground
The Braes, towards Ben Tianavaig.
Skye II - Day 5 | Gallery
Last day on Skye so off we went in search of Hairy Coos. Not a coo to be seen. So we found seals instead. Ten-a-penny they are. Before that though, we went to the Braes:
Then Dunvegan Castle, named after the day they all decided to start eating meat and dairy,
Settlement
Skye II - Day 4 | Gallery
Dropped my expensive 100-500 L lens onto the rocks today, bending the mount. “But Jim! You haven’t shot above 35mm all week!” That’s right. But I brought it all the way here to drop it on the rocks at Rhu Falls because I’m exciting and unpredictable.
Skye II - Day 3 | Gallery
Rubha nam Brathairean today followed by Quiraing. Pleasantly far less rain and far less wind!
Quiraing
Then on to Neist Point lighthouse before dinner.
Skye II - Day 2 | Gallery
We happened to be in Elgol at the right time for the tide to be able to access Spar Cave. Mid-September makes this a relatively busy place despite it’s somewhat treacherous nature. Beautiful flowstone formations in the cave, but the nicest pictures were to be taken outside of the cave.
…Then a quick potter around Portree for more why-am-I-doing-this handheld one-second-plus shutter noodling.
Skye II - Day 1 | Gallery
To the Fairy Pools (Glumagan nan Sithichean) with a wide lens and an ND filter like a slab of MDF. It suited the weather - especially the brooding clouds clinging to the summits of Sgurr an Fheadain. True to form, I essentially drove for two days to come here, carried a tripod on my back all the way there, and couldn’t be bothered putting it together for these long exposures or the 20-shot focus-stacking 1/2 second images I decided like a mug to shoot hand-held.
