Yes. I bought Nik. And am lumbering around in it.
Pep Ventosa, but table-top and therefore not
Experimenting with subject rotation and blend modes. And Nik.
I do NOT know how to do this...
Distilled water on rain-x’ed glass
I CAN’T GET TO GRIPS WITH THIS!
This one is oil in water, but I’ve been tried too with (distilled) water droplets on glass. Whatever I’m using I cannot figure out how to get the drop AND the image in the drop in focus. People seem to manage this by mistake when taking pictures through rainy windows, but I can’t decode what that means for doing it intentionally. This image is focus-stacked and it still doesn’t do what I’m after…
Walala Jazz
Monochrome Print - 19 Oct
Judge: David Steele
I was a little miffed because David held back (I think) ten, but decided to award 1st place 20, 2nd place 19, and 3rd place 18, so 17’s for the rest. It would have been nice to have a little separation amongst the held-back-but-didn’t-place images. (Final Race was held back. Hence ire.)
Canary Wharf | Gallery
A not-entirely-satisfying visit to Canary Wharf on an overcast day.
The Walala bridge:
Infra-Red:
Hawksmoor:
Kittinz!
Yes we have new kittens. Yes, they are magnificent.
Rosie-Lee
Tetley
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
Serial Print 2023-2024 Round 1
My first entry into a Cambridge Camera Club competition… This is a “Serial” competition which runs across the year in a series of rounds. You submit one colour and one mono print each round and the ultimate rankings are based upon total points.
Judge: Nick Akers.
16 for Final Race and 17 for Local Maximum. Pretty happy with that given the stunning quality of the submissions!
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.
Royston Arts Festival | Public Vote
This image was voted second in the public vote at the Royston Arts Festival this year. Pretty pleased. Pipped by the inestimable Bob Coote, so no complaints!
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.
