Archive for August, 2010
After the Harvest
Following on from yesterday’s post, fields are being gradually cleared of their grain crops. The oil seed rape is also being cleared away. But the architectural items of the harvested fields are the bales of straw dotted around. The weather has been rather mixed round here, as you can see, so the whole harvest is […]
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Tags: Aperture, Colour, DP2, Harvest, Landscape, Light, Texture
Harvest Time
It’s that time of the year now. The combines have just started and will keep going, all night if necessary, to bring the harvest in. This is mostly what’s planted round here, barley – excellent in beer and for malting for whisky! and, as you might expect, I think it works in black and white […]
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Tags: Aperture, B&W, Colour, DP2, Harvest, Landscape
Pyramid
Modern architecture can produce some striking geometric shapes. This is a modern block of flats in Argyle Street, Glasgow (and yes the sun is shining!): Shot straight up the corner of the building, this shot had exposure reduced by about two-thirds of a stop and the black point moved significantly right to increase the contrast. […]
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Tags: Aperture, Architecture, Colour, Geometry, GF-1, Street
Bicycle Mayhem
Even though people take precautions, sadly it isn’t sometimes enough … This bicycle was securely fastened to a bicycle stand in Buchanan Street, but it didn’t stop it from being stripped .. I was rather lazy for this photograph. I applied a Holga preset in Aperture, because it gave the rather grainy, gritty look I […]
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Tags: Aperture, Colour, GF-1, Street
Gypsy Busker
This old gypsy busker is a frequent sight on Buchanan Street playing tunes straight out of eastern and Central Europe. I finally took her picture today: Taken with a long lens, this has been heavily cropped for compositional reasons. Apart from that, the image needed to be boosted by just over two-thirds of a stop. […]
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Tags: Aperture, Colour, GF-1, Street
Endless Woods
On a long walk round the Atholl Estates in Glen Barvie and Glen Bruar there were long stretches going through woods and forest plantations. I tried to get a sense of this in the picture below. I tried this in colour, but couldn’t make it work for me. Taken in Dynamic B&W mode on the […]
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Tags: B&W, Colour, Drama, GF-1, Landscape
Queen’s View
Coming back from a cycle round Loch Rannoch deep in the Highlands on the eastern edge of the desolate Rannoch Moor we stopped at Queen’s View, a favourite stopping place of Queen Victoria. This looks along Loch Tummel west towards Loch Rannoch and Rannoch Moor. On the left is the mountain of Schiehallion, where the […]
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Tags: Aperture, B&W, GF-1, Landscape, Light
This Morning
This was the sunrise on the way to work this morning. It seemed too much of a gift to pass up; so, I made a hasty stop in a layby to take two pictures. I shot this in jpeg (by accident), and had dialled in a little exposure compensation in camera to reduce blown out […]
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Tags: Aperture, Colour, GF-1, Landscape, Light, Sunrise
The Bend of the Tay
As none of my cameras has the latest new-fangled in-camera stitching or sweep technology for putting panoramas together I have to do this the old-fashioned way – through software. I took some pictures to allow me to experiment with a new application I was trialling – DoubleTake. This shows the River Tay from near Dundee […]
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Half Tide
The Forth Bridges are normally photographed from the larger town of South Queensferry; however, its smaller and less well-known equivalent on the north shore of the Firth offers some interesting and different perspectives – particularly of the Victorian rail bridge, where you can get a real sense of the massive iron structure. North Queensferry, like […]
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Tags: Aperture, Colour, GX200, Landscape, Raw Photo Processor, Ricoh, Ricoh GX200, Seascape, Storm
One Picture, One Day 