The weekend has felt a long time coming this week. Luckily, its a long weekend in New Zealand with Labour Day. I had time for a quick walk before dinner after work today, and had a look around the back streets of Takapuna. Armed with my Nex and the kit lens, I took this simple image of a door and stairwell coming out of the back of a building.
In post processing I converted to Black and White, pushed the contrast and added some vignette. What’s behind that door?
Perhaps its the weekend!
As mentioned yesterday, I had not had much time to take photos after work recently. Today I had time, but limited thoughts around what I felt like capturing.
I took a wander around a local park and came across an old run down building. Once home and looking at the shots, there still was not a lot of inspiration…just an off day I guess.
What I did do was experiment a little with colouring the image (it was shot in B&W). I remember doing this years ago with film black and white images, so had a go at the digital equivalent. I cropped this image quite significantly from the original, and also added some blur layers, simply because I felt it worked better for what I think I was looking for in my final result.
So there we are, a slightly blurred, lightly coloured image for a ‘slightly blurred mind’ kind of day…
Even though the days are slowly getting longer, of late it seem like I have less and less time free to go out and shoot some photos…I’ll have to do something about that, but for now, here is an image I took several weeks back on the Sony Nex 5N at Cornwall Park.
Post processing wise, I played with the levels a little and added a slight colour tone to the image.
Sheep are funny animals. The have the ability to be a bit intimidating the way they stare at you breathing heavily. In reality I expect most the time they would think the opposite, breathing heavily, panicking what that human is going to do next. For anyone looking for a ‘sheep movie’ try the New Zealand filmed Black Sheep.
Fingers crossed I can get some images tomorrow!
Dropping in to see some family after work today, I caught a quick snap of the lavender in full bloom.
Using Gimp in post processing, I desaturated several colours, slightly adjusted levels and added a little sharpness.
Sort and sweet for today!
Mondays are usually a busy day for me. Its back to work, and then training with the fire service in the evening. Today was particularly busy with me setting up for some employer awards. End result of all of this being no time for taking some images (although I did get a few shot at the awards)
‘Mondays End’ was shot the other weekend on the Olympus four thirds DSLR I borrowed. A nice simple and relaxing image shot laying in the long grass with the telephoto lens.
Only resizing done in post processing, with the colour etc. straight from the camera.
