When I need a bit of serenity, I go for a walk:
ISO 25 f/2.2 1/1672sec 4.2mm
This photo has Luminar Look, Camden Desat, added to it and then a bit of luminance.
Your thoughts and comments are welcome below.
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Packing
Plans for our move continue to go ahead. We are in the packing phase right at the moment, as you can tell from this collection of things just somewhat randomly sitting in the living room:
ISO 500 f/2.2 1/17sec 4.2mm
In addition to the random collection, I also shot the photo in a bit unbalanced way. Showing the off-kilter that is moving. The photo has the Luminar Look, Quay Desat, added to it.
Your thoughts and comments are welcome below.
This photo was shot for and in response too, Tuesday Photo Challenge, Return. Frank’s photo this week shows what will be another part of the move for me, a flight to the United States. But that is still to come, for now, it’s back to packing.
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Daily Record Weekly Photo Wrap-Up: Week 63
Plenty of bright sun over the course of the week, something that comes through in this gallery. As a result, most of my work this week tended toward vivid colors and contrasts:
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Welcome to this week’s installment of my daily photographic record. Posts in this series will be photos from the week before, roughly Friday through Friday. This, once a week, wrap-up post will publish on Sunday. The photos for this post will be in a gallery format, they will have all been taken on my phone. The captions on the photos will be an indication of the photo-editing software used to edit them, or simply “as-shot” for those that are unedited.
Writing a weekly wrap up with a gallery is a way for me to gather my thoughts on what has caught my attention in the previous week. It will be a way of filtering through what I am thinking about photographically. I’ll also be able to come back to these posts and look at what trends emerge over time.
As with all my posts, your comments are welcome. I appreciate your interaction with my work here on this blog. It is my intention to publish in this series on Sunday. Every Sunday that is possible. Looking at my year, I already know there are some weeks where I will not be close enough to my technology to make a post possible. In an effort to keep this project pleasant for myself, I won’t be attempting catch-up posts.
Hope to see you in the comments below and in this space next week!
Cheers!
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: Week 20
The challenge this week asks for a landscape image using negative space. To me, this image is as much about the solid blue as it is the more variant tones of white in the clouds. The simpler, more even, blue is an important canvas for the texture of the sky:
ISO 25 f/2.2 1/12821 sec 4.2mm
The photo has the Luminar Look, Somerset, applied to it. I’ve also cropped the image slightly and added a vignette. Your thoughts and comments are welcome below.
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What I Am Working On: Interpretation
While a good majority of my photography is about recording a scene and then editing to show what I saw, it is fun also to interpret a scene. That was the case when I shot this photo at the Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam in the Fall of 2016:
ISO 200 f/2.7 1/200sec 4.3mm
This photo gives you an idea of what the bronze statues around Rembrandt’s statue look like. They are an interpretation and tribute to his painting The Night Watch. I took the first photo as a way of remembering the overall scene. Then I took this photo:
ISO 200 f/2.7 1/250sec 4.3mm
It was a more detailed shot of the statues, as I found their texture to be very interesting. I knew I wanted a few things out of my interpretation. The first was to keep that detail of the bronze as an important element. The second was to use the terribly blown out sky in a creative way:
ISO 200 f/2.7 1/250sec 4.3mm
An adjustment to the detail slider helped bring the clarity I wanted. I used the “small details” only. The Luminar Look, Enigma, gave me the glowing sky I wanted.
Now a word about cropping. The first crop was done in-camera. That was the conscious step of photographing the whole scene and then asking myself what I found most interesting about what was in front of me and then taking a photo of that. That is how the second photo came to be. I often approach photography this way. Particularly when I travel, I find this a nice exercise in being in the moment. It makes for nice memories too, when I looked at these original files this morning, I could remember this moment. The second crop was done during the editing process, that Booking.com building is pretty distracting. When the crop didn’t remove it entirely, I used the clone and stamp tool to take the rest of it out.
The last edit was to set a vignette with the center on the statue. It’s a pretty subtle vignette, particularly compared to some of the other, more drastic, edits. A bit of a final nudge.
Your thoughts, comments, or questions about my method or the edits are welcome below.
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Added to Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Cropping the Shot.
Made With Luminar: Dolbadarn Castle
This shot of Dolbadarn Castle was taken on August 18, 2016.
ISO 500 f/11 1/100sec 50mm
Usually, with photos included in this series, I show the original file. I opted not to with this post because one of my children was in the original file. Other first adjustments included white balance and an increase in the luminance of the greens and yellows in the image. I did also crop this image. The Luminar Look, Past Days, was added at 100% with adjustments to the split toning and texture amount filters.
Added to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge, Decayed or Rusty.
The Made with Luminar Series
This image is part of a project I am calling Made with Luminar. What the images in this series have in common is the software used to edit them, Luminar 3. As with my usual blog posts particulars of the camera settings can be found in the caption below the image. I’ll then explain what other filters and edits have been applied, often mentioning what layer and therefore order that they were applied. The text of these posts includes any Luminar “Looks” that have been applied to the photo. Each look is a series of presets that are applied to the photo. Where applicable I will mention what changes I have made to any of the looks. A full explanation of looks is available here on their website, https://skylum.com/luminar/user-guides/chapter-14-working-with-luminar-looks
You can assume basic edits have been applied. My most common edits are cropping, detail enhancement, and vignette. Specific questions or thoughts on the image are welcome in the comment section below.
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Daily Photo Record Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 62
Join me for another week of going round and round the village! Not that I see a lot of people but the lost property is beginning to pile up, so I know folks are out.
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Welcome to this week’s installment of my daily photographic record. Posts in this series will be photos from the week before, roughly Friday through Friday. This, once a week, wrap-up post will publish on Sunday. The photos for this post will be in a gallery format, they will have all been taken on my phone. The captions on the photos will be an indication of the photo-editing software used to edit them, or simply “as-shot” for those that are unedited.
Writing a weekly wrap up with a gallery is a way for me to gather my thoughts on what has caught my attention in the previous week. It will be a way of filtering through what I am thinking about photographically. I’ll also be able to come back to these posts and look at what trends emerge over time.
As with all my posts, your comments are welcome. I appreciate your interaction with my work here on this blog. It is my intention to publish in this series on Sunday. Every Sunday that is possible. Looking at my year, I already know there are some weeks where I will not be close enough to my technology to make a post possible. In an effort to keep this project pleasant for myself, I won’t be attempting catch-up posts.
Hope to see you in the comments below and in this space next week!
Cheers!
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: Week 19
The challenge set for this week is Aging. It’s a beautiful time of year for that, with a lot of flowers blooming and then fading. This wisteria on the garden wall of a nearby neighbour is stunning. I take photos of it every year. It also smells wonderful. A close look though and you will see that parts of the blooms have begun to fade:
ISO 25 f/2.2 1/905sec 4.2mm
The photo has been cropped and had some luminance added. It has the Luminar Look, Aethereal added and set to 32%. Your thoughts and comments are welcome below.
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Wordless Wednesday: The View Near Beddgelert, Wales
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August 16, 2016.
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