Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Hereford Photographic Festival
It rained and it rained. This is about 30 yards from The Watershed gallery by the Wye, in constant danger of being flooded.
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Colour management
This started out as a technical exercise, but I've grown to like it (them - it is a series).
Saturday, November 25, 2006
4 Faults, Refusal :-)
Friday, November 24, 2006
Eight Zeds
Colin wondered on my blog why I wasn't putting more of this kind of stuff on Stills. The answer to that was that much of it tends to dilute the photographic element(s) and I considered this a mainly photographic forum. However, that said I can't but help feel curious as to what others think of this kind of work.
The main subject is photographic. Taken with my 105mm macro. The context clash is created with the application of a zebra skin to the knight. The pattern it creates when repeated does my eyes in.
How about yours?
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Back Street Panda
Another Place
According to Antony Gormley, Another Place harnesses the ebb and flow of the
tide to explore man¹s relationship with nature. He explains: The seaside is a good place to do this. Here time is tested by tide, architecture by the elements and the prevalence of sky seems to question the earth¹s substance. In this work human life is tested against planetary time. This sculpture exposes to light and time the nakedness of a particular and peculiar body. It is no hero, no ideal, just the industrially reproduced body of a middle-aged man trying to remain standing and trying to breathe, facing a horizon busy with ships moving materials and manufactured things around the planet.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Clichéd Exmoor
Friday, November 17, 2006
Unfinished work
No, not a cryptic title. I mean this is unfinished in a literal sense. It has been sitting around on my desktop for ages. I bashed it through PS this evening to make a working print, but even as I was doing so I was hovering between some major alternatives - high contrast, low contrast, what to do with the sky, what to do with the pole.....indeed, whether to go back and reshoot with a different camera and start again.
There has been a conversation not quite starting on A&P about the difference between painters who often show unfinished work for comment, and photographers who don't.
So, this is an open work, for commenting. The neg is in pretty good shape. Nothing is either fully black or fully white (the posted version has had a medium amount of contrast added already, but this can be reversed).
There is no 'meaning' of course.
What should I do?
An interresting observation. The sky looks brighter here than it does on Today. It is the same file, but the page background is different.
Today link ......... here
And I must do something about this template to make links show up!
There has been a conversation not quite starting on A&P about the difference between painters who often show unfinished work for comment, and photographers who don't.
So, this is an open work, for commenting. The neg is in pretty good shape. Nothing is either fully black or fully white (the posted version has had a medium amount of contrast added already, but this can be reversed).
There is no 'meaning' of course.
What should I do?
An interresting observation. The sky looks brighter here than it does on Today. It is the same file, but the page background is different.
Today link ......... here
And I must do something about this template to make links show up!
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Train 365
Higashi-kitazawa station, Tokyo.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
after rain
Monday, November 13, 2006
Fire Lines
We came across this scene soon after entering Yellowstone National Park this year. I believe the fire damage was from the 1988 fires that hit the park. I was completely struck by the strong black vertical lines, so much so that it almost stopped being a woodland scene, like someone had taken a harsh brush and started manically painting black lines across the world. I spent some time shooting, which wasn't as popular with the family as one might imagine. Yes, I was surprised too......
Bournemouth Balloons sRGB
This has the sRGB profile embedded and has been converted via
edit>convert to profile>Destination sRGB>Relative Colorimetric.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Bournemouth Balloons
This was processed from RAW in ProPhotoRGB and the JPG has that profile embedded.
The reason that was done was that I had a discussion about colour space with members of the camera club where I said that the only folk who had problems with colours were those who changed colour space. I then did an experiment where I took one of the most colour saturated images I could find and processed it from RAW in sRGB aRGB and ProPhotoRGB. It was only when the ProPhoto print emerged from the printer that I could see some colours were more vivid/saturated. Mark you under tungsten light the dsifference was hard to see, daylight helped. sRGB virtually identical to aRGB. So I decided to do this in ProPhotoRGB as I wanted vivid colours in my print (which I got). Having got the JPG I looked at in Fax Viewer and the colours looked 'right'. I haven't posted yet but the colours look wrong in preview.
I went to a lecture by Hugh Milsom (http://www.hughmilsom.co.uk/) I said to one of the club members I was having the debate with that it was a shame Hugh didn't know anything about colour space because his images would have a bit more colour if he did!
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Nerita communis
Ebay is a wonderful place.
Head and Shoulders (03150007)
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Shoes
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
ley lines
This is a panorama of four images. To see it at a larger size, click on the image.
One of the artists we visited during Herefordshire Open Studios painted lots of views of a hill top called May Hill. She also did collages of church-related symbols and sculptures and, in conversation, it transpired that she was drawn to places that had 'ley lines'. The upshot being that on our way back to our accommodation we visited Kilpeck church, which is Norman and has pagan symbols carved in stone as gargoyles around the roof. Out at the back of the little graveyard was this scene. I am not into New Age or any mysticism but there is no doubting the ability of some landscapes to reflect a long relationship with man. This small dell with the hawthorn growing there seemed to possess such a piece of history. It looks better full screen but I hope that something comes across.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
....and leaves
Last night was spent experimenting with a shot of the dining room table in virtual darkness
lit only by moonlight and the haze of distant street lights. A one hundred and twenty second
exposure. During that time I carefully entered and exited the frame, placing myself here
and there. I imagined the ghostly apparition, a spectre of a half remembered dinner party.
What happened that night? What became of those people? Pffft. So much for experimentation.
So here are some leaves taken this afternoon in Ashridge forest.
