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This shot is of a Church in Durham city centr, I took the photo as the sun was going down hence the vivid light on the left hand-side of the spire as we look. I've made the sky a little bluer but aside from that there's little editing. I'm running out of good photos to post at the mo 'cos the weather is so miserable (football was cancelled this morning, waterlogged pitch). Hopefully it'll either snow properly or get better soon and I can post some interesting photos!
This is one of the shots from my random walk the other day. I've brought the greens out a bit and levelled is a bit but not much Photoshop here... Football will probably be cancelled again this weekend so I can sense another wander coming on.
As our ever-so-reliable weathermen predicted, Durham got it's first dusting of snow today. Admittedly it was only a little bit overnight but it stuck around long enough for me to get a few shots, I'm quite happy with the results since it's my first time using my tripod. I took this on a little detour back from my only lecture today (Internation Economics - argh) and also went on a walk through the countryside in the late afternoon since football practice was cancelled. I've took some photos from that walk too but they haven't turned out particularly well due to rubbish lighting conditions. I may put one or two up at a latter date but at the moment I think this is the best of the bunch... hope you like it.
This is my first real attempt at doing anything in Photoshop and I'm quite happy with the result. I know that I had a comment from a visitor saying that they didn't like vivid colour against black and white but I quite like it in this case, I think it really emphasises the beauty and makes what would be an average photo in colour look quite spectacular. Not sure how this little fella will do over the next few days, it's forecast to snow here! Hopefully if it does I'll get some pretty awesome shots; I look forward to sharing them with you.
Hey, this is my first night sky shot. You can see that the underside of the clouds have a red/orange tint to them whilst the top side has a more of a silver glow, this is because I took this photo above the science site at my university and the orange glow came from the lights on site. I've dimmed the moon slightly but aside from that there's no further editing. O yeh, I've acquired two tools in one day to help my photography. Firstly, I got myself a copy of Photoshop so let me know of any tips you may have to help me improve my photos. And also, my friend on my corridor gave me a mini-tripod. Apparently it had been in the PA comm. cupboard for months and nobody claimed it so he gave it to me since I told him about my developing hobby in photography! What a guy!
This photo is of an alleyway down the side of a house, I think the rust colour really contrasts against the colours around it. I've experimented with focal softening again, hopefully I haven't overdone it, it's good that Picasa keeps a backup of the original!
I uploaded another entry about the cathedral a minute ago but I've taken it down for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I don't want this blog to appear like an ad for the Durham tourism industry, the cathedral is beautiful and all and I personally love just looking at at when I walk past on my way to lectures but I don't want to be characterised as the person who always takes cathedral shots! Secondly, I'm not sure if the photo was worthy of merit in photography terms since I mainly put it up because it's a shot of a beautiful and magnificent structure. Anyways, I decided to replace that post with one of this leaf. I'm not sure if the softening is a bit much, I might re-do a version without so much softening, I just wanted to highlight the frailty of this little leaf that I saw. Everything else is dying around it but it's just carrying on, and doing quite well by the looks of things! I hope you enjoy this shot, please let me know what your thoughts are regarding the softening or any other aspect. I take it is a huge complement when other photographers take the time to comment on my photos, I truly value your opinion!
