A week in Paris doing The Usual, checkbox fashion. As usual I have the most fun with the worst camera. I need to work out what’s going on there…. Click for bigger images.
Bits of the Pompidou Centre…
850nm IR in various places…
Curiosities…
A couple of colour ones…
… and a reminder of what it’s like in Paris doing the sites, in summer, just prior to the Olympics.
Had a go at panning for speed, among other things. Click for full size.
This is out-of-camera (minor sharpening) but with the Fuji Velvia film sim. I'm struck by what a pronounced UV effect seems to have happened when ordinarily this sim is broadly just saturation (broadly). The leaves are naturally that faintly blue-tinged but fuzzy colour of lavender leaves.
WHIPLASH!
I can see myself becoming quite addicted to making these.
Returned to the Henry Moore Garden with a plan. Of sorts. Take documentary-like images of whole sculptures, large partial-forms and textures, then create a panel with a coherent composition. I’m satisfied with this. It works well to composite everything, then find a high-contrast black-and-white treatment, and bi-colour-process that with bronze-like user-defined colours.
For the record:
Large-form in photoshop layer.
Texture in another layer.
Change blend mode to overlay, though sometimes something else.
Adjust both layers’ levels to taste.
Flatten or export, then black-and-white process with an appropriate filter for dynamic range.
Nik ColorEfex user-defined bi-colour process with colours picked from the original bronzes.
Print-to-file in lightroom as panel.
Experimenting with the X100VI. I do like the close-up stuff. The bokeh is great.
Revisited the Henry Moores and took lots of raw material pictures for future projects. But also these.
Had a day’s work cancelled. Already had the train ticket. Beach.
Blew the highlights, lost the shadows, embraced the noise, welcomed the vignette. Who needs judge approval…?
First time at the Henry Moore Garden. Trying to think in terms of multi-exposure and panel-creation. Fairly happy here. Each is a monochrome 850nm infra-red filtered image of large forms, bi-coloured in post, with a full-colour image of surface detailing blended (‘overlay’) over the top.
Experimenting while very much not being in the horrible environment of the William Blake exhibition upstairs.
These are all processed through Nik Silver Efex - Full Spectrum (Harsh) - with some increase in texture where necessary to create a crisp black and white image, then creating a second image in full colour but gaussian blurred by 80%, layering the B&W above the colour images and then changing the B&W layer blend mode to Overlay/Multiply/Hard Light - whatever had the desired effect.
I realise now I’ve spelt it out that I’ve accidentally invented frequency separation, and then taken it to extremes. Nevertheless I like it.
This last one was the best part of the William Blake exhibition. The rooms went from total dark blue, through green, this red-to-orange room, and then yellow. The idea was nice, but the cramped dark first room just made me feel extra neurodivergent so I had to leave.
RIP
It was literally over the road. I couldn’t not go take a look.
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Extras!…
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H - This is A but warmer. It was bothering me.
