Thou eyes doth not deceive thee.
Well, that was six-eight months of 2011 that flew past and will not be fondly remembered. See this and this for a rough idea. Yes, ouch, but the recovery is going well thanks.
Oh, yeah, meant to post this in November so, missed the last few months too. Oops!
Anyhow, we’ve hopefully signed on a new apartment, 23rd floor penthouse, pending approval tomorrow. We headed back to the UK for a week for Kirsty’s birthday bash and to see the respective families. I’m pondering a camera upgrade this year. And I actually managed to get out with the camera today for a walkaround with one of the POTN members.
Lots of other stuff going on too but that can wait for another post upon our return, in the middle to post middle time enjoy a couple of shots from Vancouver:
Processing details for the above are here
Ok, so I’m a bit late with the first one (blame the day job) so I’ll have to play catch up at some point later.
Honestly I didn’t know which topic to pick first, and then the weekend before last (yes the images have been sitting there for a week or so) I looked up whilst brewing a cuppa in the kitchen and spotted that the kitchen blinds were not simply white slats of plastic, they were…wait for it… white slots of plastic with….drum role please… a fake wood texture. As it happened the sun started peaking from behind the clouds at this point and provide some nice contrasty light through the slats, along with some shaded areas as some gobo [Note: this is a technical term, I'm not making things up for once!] got in the way.
And so the first topic was selected by nature, Texture.
I decided to test my lenses out at the same time so shot a variety of angles with the 24-105mm, 70-200mm, 30mm and 85mm. I was quite surprised at the amount of barrel distortion of the 30mm Sigma, exaggerated by the horizontal lines and by shooting at minimum focus distance. The other surprising thing… two out of the three final shots were from the 70-200mm at full extension, inside, shooting a shaded object. Generally I wouldn’t have picked the lens up for that but I was testing them all, once again that beauty shows it’s worth and reminds me that I should use it more often.
Anyway, less rambling, more pictures. I usually watermark every image but decided to leave it off of the composite one as I found it broke up the flow of the image too much. Enjoy and look forward to the next topic, not sure what it is yet, I’m sure it’ll jump out at me.
Final Composite:
Single Source Images:
{ insert visual of white gloves and mystical waving of wand in to readers mind }
Tada!
The portal page to this blog and, coming later this week/next, the new front end for Project 7.019 is now live. The older version was a bit out of date as Kirstys pictures hadn’t been updated in a while so the link was a tad superfluous. Kirsty now has her own blog dedicated to makeup (Rouge Make Up Artistry) so head over and you can keep up with her work there too.
For those of you that arrive directly to the blog page, bypassing the old entrance, go take a peek, it’s only just over here after all.
Nothing else new at the moment, but if anyone from Vancouver is reading this and they happen to have a used Canon 5D in good condition that they’re selling then let me know!
Until later, hmm, nice cuppa.
