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Up next: red.
Showing posts with label blue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blue. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Blue Mosaic
It's a bit late for the DPS weekend challenge, but I got the spirit of the challenge in (namely taking blue photographs during the weekend). I like these mosaics so much that I think I'm going to do one for every primary and secondary color. Sorry, but I think you guys have seen all of these already. Oh, well. They look better together.
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Up next: red.
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Up next: red.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Max Ash Blue?
I had a shoot planned up Provo Canyon today, but the weather snuffed that idea. It snowed about an inch, then froze, making the roads an absolute nightmare. Needless to say, my urge to drive in the canyon dwindled quickly after that.
Instead, I went outside and took some photos of my swing set. The monkey bars had a cool line of water drops, and I thought the chain that the swings hang from would make a cool macro too. Since it was cloudy, and early in the morning, there was a very defined blue tint to the light. I set my white balance to "Cloudy," and my photos were still really blue. I probably should have set it to Tungsten or something to compensate, but I figured with "Cloudy," I would be getting an accurate representation of the light temperature.
click to enlarge, or see it on Flickr
Aperture: f/2.6
Shutter Speed: 1/40
ISO: 80
Tripod
click to enlarge, or see it on Flickr
Aperture: f/2.6
Shutter Speed: 1/60
ISO: 80
Tripod
The first photo was unadulterated as far as color goes. I didn't touch the levels, saturation, or anything else that affects color. I just added a bit of contrast and slapped on a vignette.
The second photo, which I'm much happier with, was played with more. I took some blue and a little green out and added a bit of red via the Levels box, and bumped the contrast down a little. It wasn't until after I cropped to square and added the vignette that I realized how close this looked to a Max Ash photo, whose effect I tried to copy in this post. Actually, I have a sneaking suspicion that his photos are HDR processed first, and THEN converted to monochrome, etc. I'll have to try that sometime.
Either way, not bad to have one and a half keepers from a shoot that consisted of 10 photos in my backyard. These will go into my "blue" mosaic, which will be similar to the "green" mosaic I did in this post, which is why I cropped to 1:1. I hope to do a lot of themed mosaics, as they're fun to put together.
Instead, I went outside and took some photos of my swing set. The monkey bars had a cool line of water drops, and I thought the chain that the swings hang from would make a cool macro too. Since it was cloudy, and early in the morning, there was a very defined blue tint to the light. I set my white balance to "Cloudy," and my photos were still really blue. I probably should have set it to Tungsten or something to compensate, but I figured with "Cloudy," I would be getting an accurate representation of the light temperature.
click to enlarge, or see it on Flickr
Aperture: f/2.6
Shutter Speed: 1/40
ISO: 80
Tripod
click to enlarge, or see it on Flickr
Aperture: f/2.6
Shutter Speed: 1/60
ISO: 80
Tripod
The first photo was unadulterated as far as color goes. I didn't touch the levels, saturation, or anything else that affects color. I just added a bit of contrast and slapped on a vignette.
The second photo, which I'm much happier with, was played with more. I took some blue and a little green out and added a bit of red via the Levels box, and bumped the contrast down a little. It wasn't until after I cropped to square and added the vignette that I realized how close this looked to a Max Ash photo, whose effect I tried to copy in this post. Actually, I have a sneaking suspicion that his photos are HDR processed first, and THEN converted to monochrome, etc. I'll have to try that sometime.
Either way, not bad to have one and a half keepers from a shoot that consisted of 10 photos in my backyard. These will go into my "blue" mosaic, which will be similar to the "green" mosaic I did in this post, which is why I cropped to 1:1. I hope to do a lot of themed mosaics, as they're fun to put together.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Beginning of Blue
The DPS challenge I talked about in my last post sounded interesting, so today I started taking pictures of blue stuff for the weekend. I got a chance to try out my new monopod that I got for my birthday (woot!), and got lucky with a nice capture right off the bat.
click to enlarge, or see it on Flickr
Aperture: f/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/640
ISO: 80
Monopod
Normally I strongly dislike tilted shots like this with the horizon purposely skewed. But I kind of like how it made the picture feel. It's a swing; you're not supposed to be perfectly level.
Hopefully I'll get enough shots to do another collage, this time in blue. I've started tagging all my photos with the dominant color so I can do things like that a little more easily. And by "easily," I mean "with less wading through folders looking for specific photos."
click to enlarge, or see it on Flickr
Aperture: f/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/640
ISO: 80
Monopod
Normally I strongly dislike tilted shots like this with the horizon purposely skewed. But I kind of like how it made the picture feel. It's a swing; you're not supposed to be perfectly level.
Hopefully I'll get enough shots to do another collage, this time in blue. I've started tagging all my photos with the dominant color so I can do things like that a little more easily. And by "easily," I mean "with less wading through folders looking for specific photos."
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