| Fri, 24 Feb 2006 | Comment on this article via email or flickr |
Photo Blog #27
The subject here should be pretty familiar to many of my viewers - it's the cycle park roof at the William Gates Building in Cambridge. There are some less abstract shots of it here, if you want a better impression.
Camera : Olympus C2040-Z Flash used : No Focal length : 21.0mm Exposure time: 2.500 s Aperture : f/4.0 ISO equiv. : 100 Exposure bias: 1.00 Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : aperture priority |
Camera : Olympus C2040-Z Flash used : No Focal length : 21.0mm Exposure time: 1.300 s Aperture : f/4.0 ISO equiv. : 100 Exposure bias: 0.30 Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : aperture priority |
These are pretty much as they came off the camera - although they look greyscale that's just due to the lighting, and although I considered giving them a tint in the end it seemed easier not to. There was some cropping, and the second one was lightened slightly to match the first. I had intended to make a triptych, but the third shot I didn't really like. There were quite a few hot pixels as well that I had to clone out - my camera seems to be developing more of them than it used to, or perhaps I'm just looking more closely.
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| Fri, 17 Feb 2006 | Comment on this article via email or flickr |
Photo Blog #26
I'd be interested to see if you can immediately tell what this is. Explanation below.
Camera : Olympus C2040-Z Flash used : Yes Focal length : 21.0mm Exposure time: 0.0100 s (1/100) Aperture : f/10.0 ISO equiv. : 100 Metering Mode: spot Exposure : program (auto)
My wife thinks I'm obsessed with photographing fire, but that can't be true as it's only the second fire shot I've posted. I do find it interesting to see what fire looks like when photographed, and I reckon it's a pretty difficult thing to capture, so there is certainly a lot of experimentation.
This is the grain at the end of a log after it has been burning for an hour or two. I've long been curious about the mechanism that turns the very black charred wood into the the very white ash (I'm guessing), while still maintaining the structure of it. It was this and the shapes created as the log splits, that I was trying to capture.
This one isn't that different to the image as it came off the camera, but it has been converted to black and white (was almost so anyway), bit of fiddling with the curves to tweak the contrast, an attempt at adding some subtle film grain (but not sure it's really noticable or appropriate) and a vignette. It's also one of the very few shots I've posted using a flash, and that was unintentional - the camera decided it new better, and on this rare occasion it was right.
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| Fri, 10 Feb 2006 | Comment on this article via email or flickr |
Photo Blog #25
So here is the other foggy one I didn't use last week. Again, I'm not 100% happy with it, but ran out of time processing (I find after a while of looking at a picture I can't judge whether a change has made it better or worse) so it will have to do. As is becoming common, I've got two different versions of the same shot.
This was shot on Jesus Green in Cambridge a couple of weeks ago when there was a serious amount of fog. I found it quite interesting that my camera could see through the fog much better than I could at the time.
Camera : Olympus C2040-Z Flash used : No Focal length : 15.8mm Exposure time: 0.0063 s (1/160) Aperture : f/2.3 ISO equiv. : 100 Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : program (auto)
As far as processing goes, they differ in the tone and the vignette applied, but otherwise are the same.
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| Fri, 03 Feb 2006 | Comment on this article via email or flickr |
Photo Blog #24
I had a few I could have put up this week, and the ones that I didn't use may well make an appearance in the future, but in the end I decided that as I'd posted two monochrome shots recently I'd avoid another foggy one.
Having decided on the subject, I then couldn't choose between two different shots, so you've got both. I've been looking to do more photography at night, and as I cycle past these greenhouses (at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany) which are lit 24/7, they made an easy target. There is a whole row of them - about 100m in total - and they look very impressive on an otherwise dark evening. These photos don't quite capture that, but I'm just about happy with them.
Camera : Olympus C2040-Z Date/Time : 2006:02:26 18:09:47 Flash used : No Focal length : 7.3mm Exposure time: 0.020 s (1/50) Aperture : f/1.8 ISO equiv. : 100 Exposure bias: 0.30 Metering Mode: spot Exposure : aperture priority (semi-auto) |
Camera : Olympus C2040-Z Date/Time : 2006:02:26 18:11:52 Flash used : No Focal length : 21.0mm Exposure time: 0.067 s (1/15) Aperture : f/2.6 ISO equiv. : 100 Exposure bias: 1.00 Metering Mode: spot Exposure : aperture priority (semi-auto) |
As far as processing goes, they've both obviously been cropped, while one was colourized and the other left pretty much as is. I think there was a little curves adjustment and unsharp mask too.
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