28 Oct 2010

Playing again

I decided to play a little today so I started moving the camera around while pressing the shutter button. I like the effect this had on the tall pine trees we were walking through this afternoon. I set the camera to shutter priority, set the speed to 1/20, let the aperture set itself and moved the camera vertically as I took the picture. I brought the shadows up a tiny bit in Lightroom and that's it.

Earlier I'd been shooting in monochrome straight from the camera but the day was dull and I couldn't find any high-contrast shots except for the pine trees below. Strangely, Lightroom converted them all into colour when I imported them. Must be something to do with converting them to .dng files. But it was easy to convert them back into black and white. And when I saw the beautiful, subtle hues in this close up of bark I was glad I had it in colour.

7 comments:

  1. I love what you did with the first one! And the texture in the second one is amazing, I want to put my hand right into that photo.

    Your b&w is also gorgeous (I can't pick a fave :)).

    P.S. Thank you so much for all the lovely photography encouragement. I'm still on the *very* steep side of the learning curve - but I hear practice makes perfect :)

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  2. These are great shots! I haven't played around with my camera enough! I love what you have done. The tree bark is beautiful and I somehow want to capture that texture on paper! Love it!

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  3. these are fantastic, I love what you did in the first one. Lightroom always converts black and white back into colour, if you want to practice to see which one you like best you can go to 'develop' and then go to 'photo' on the top and click 'create virtual copy' - saves going backwards and forwards.

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  4. Fantastic shot of the pine trees!

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  5. Gorgeous texture and tones in the image of the bark. I too am glad it didn't turn out in b&w.

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  6. Amazing trees! To be honest the first one kinda hurts my eyes, but I keep seeing camera shake images around - I think they're the "in" thing, lol.

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  7. I love that you experiment with your camera. And I love the panning one, an image of colors fit for the imagination. And yes, nature sdoes do her own thing quite well as far as textures and tree bark. That's a lovely shot.

    I'll follow along, interested to see and hear how your adventure in the street photography course goes.

    And thanks for visiting, and especially commenting, on Seeded Earth.

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