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Lovely. What were you looking through?
Alan
Lovely. What were you looking through?
Alan
Hi, good to see you back. looks like you are having a lot of fun photographing these dogs.
I miss your candid human portraits though.
That's really effective. Well spotted framing!
Hello! Nice to hear from you.
I thought this was some sort of PP, until I enlarged the picture. Very clever.
I like these two particularly. The background is nicely blurred. The last shot is a nice symmetrical design.
Thank you. I liked them too. And, suprisingly, it is what I wanted to take, rather than finding them in the photo afterwards.
Alan
These two are also my favorite from your set. In the second one, the green/yellow thing in the background is a bit disturbing though. For such pictures, two tricks I learned that may be of interest :
- use your hand or something to make shadows. A shadow behind your subject ça make it pop like in the first one above, and, more difficult, a shadow on your subject to make it contrast with an almost white background can be very effective.
- if you get down enough and have some grass really in front of your lens, that can make a very nice "natural blur" at the bottom of your picture.
This is a set I shot a few weeks ago, in a Monastery, that is usually closed. It was open to visit, thanks to FAI, a sort of Italian National Trust. Catione Marchese, is a small village near Parma, and I have often passed it when I have visited a client nearby.
It was shot hand held, with all the problems you encounter on a guided tour.
Sharpness is good even relatively SSS you used. You still use your Z7! I find a single camera too much to carry. I admire you guys dedication.
Heat wave
A bit of sunshine and warmer weather make a significant difference. I’m sick and tired of the cold and grey. OM3 is a great camera. Is it the new version or the old one? I had the old one and used the lens the a lot.
Old and new
One of the buildings of
University of Toronto ( built between 1856 and 1859 ) has a soccer field being constructed nearby for athletic endeavors.
I love Harry Potter style tower buildings :)
Spring Is Springing
As it's Easter, I've had the week off work and was looking forward to getting out with the camera quite a bit, only to be scuppered by the weather earlier in the week followed by a sudden bout of sickness towards the end (which I seem to be over now), the latter meaning I missed what turned out to be the best day of the week and worse still, was also a new lens day, so the lens ended up remaining in its box for a few days until I felt well enough to do something with it (pictures from that at a later date).
All that aside, I did manage to get out for a few hours between high winds and showers early in the week for a bit of a wander in Brinscall woods. We're roughly in Bluebell Season here in the UK, so I was hoping to find lush carpets of blue amongst the emerging buds of the woods returning back to life for another whizz around the sun, but the bluebells were a no show and I ended up photographing the growing greenery instead.
All images taken with the GFX100S + 45-100 + CPL on a tripod and processed from individual raw files in Capture One Pro 23.
I don't really have any titles for these, they're all just trying to capture the mood of the woods.
This has long been a favourite spot in these woods. It's taken from a reasonably steep slope that leads out of the oldest part of the woods and into the pinewood plantation higher up the hill. There used to be a fallen tree lying across the wall, which you can still see part of towards the right hand side, but a large part of it finally collapsed and fell off, so it's no longer the great subject it used to be, unfortunately.
This is a longer shot from a slightly different position. I couldn't find a good spot that captured the wall and the trees behind it without including the large branches in the foreground, so I eventually settled for trying to balance them on either side and sort of use them as a frame. You can see the remains of the fallen tree I mentioned above, lying across the wall on the lower right.
Here I've crossed the wall from the previous two photos.
A tighter view, concentrating on the contrast between the foliage and the tangle of trees behind.
This was taken further along the slope (stage left on the previous images). I've photographed these trees before and find them really expressive.
By this point I'd scrambled up the slope to the main woodland path that runs along the top of it. Before the pine plantation was installed, this would have been a busy thoroughfare to access the various farms that once stood on these woodlands (one would have been just off to my left in this shot). Up ahead is the brooding darkness of the pine plantation, always gloomy in comparison to the lower woods.
Incredible details and colours.
I very much like this door at the end of your tour, Nigel.
David
Same here!
Unexpected Bonus Wildlife Round
Note these are taken through double glazing that could do with a bit of a clean. I think they still look pretty good, but the lens is really quite excellent with just air between it and its subject, even at f/2.8.
I must say that I don't like foxes, but they can be pretty when they are not malnourished. The show is pretty sharp despite double-glazing filter :)
@NCV has written: @AlanSh has written:I was out for a walk with a local photo group today. The theme was "Nature" and we learned how to "get down and dirty" to get some interesting shots. Comments appreciated
I like these two particularly. The background is nicely blurred. The last shot is a nice symmetrical design.
These two are also my favorite from your set. In the second one, the green/yellow thing in the background is a bit disturbing though. For such pictures, two tricks I learned that may be of interest :
- use your hand or something to make shadows. A shadow behind your subject ça make it pop like in the first one above, and, more difficult, a shadow on your subject to make it contrast with an almost white background can be very effective.
- if you get down enough and have some grass really in front of your lens, that can make a very nice "natural blur" at the bottom of your picture.
Thanks for the feedback and ideas. The leaf was a crop from a larger image
As you can see - no grass around.
Alan