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Jodrell Bank

ad — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:21:31 +0000

Not had much of a chance to try out the 550D since getting it a couple of weeks back, so motored off this evening up to The Cat & Fiddle in the hope of one good shot before the sun went down.

Looks much better big, by the way, so please click it…

Sunny weekend

ad — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:07:07 +0000

SLR…

Hipstamatic…

Iron Men (2)

ad — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:13:27 +0000

Crosby beach yesterday in the company of the metal Gormleys and wouldn’t you know it – forgot the camera. Millions of photos of these fellas must exist already, but I fancied a go all the same and of course had my telephone on me.

Coloured in Mill Colour, cropped, sharpened and slightly contrast-adjusted in Photogene, I like this one with the wind farm and the clouds over the hills in the background. Not a bad resolution either.

Having played with CameraBag and everything else, nothing really stuck till Hipstamatic.

Just checked now and found you can stick higher quality on in the settings. Damn. 525px wide’ll just have to do for these.

Antlers

ad — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:11:39 +0000

One last ice photo from yesterday’s ice adventure. Again, retouching was great fun, so maybe I should get out and shoot more than once every six months.

Weird Ice Splash

ad — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:16:48 +0000

Went for a drive over Snake Pass this afternoon. Came across the other side and a pond had overflowed and flooded the road, so ice had kept freezing on the bushes as cars kept splashing them. Strangest thing I’ve ever seen. Click through for the big pics on Flickr.

I can recommend extensive dodging and burning to make ice sparkle. It’s very therapeutic.

Round Thing

ad — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:50:47 +0000

A £3.50 Ikea light, from above, pepped up on with Photogene on the phone. Love the way the 3GS handles white balance and focus.

Birds

ad — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:52:51 +0000

Never get round to taking photos these days, which is a pity as it’s quick and easy and fun. So went cycling off down the waterpark as the weather’s been good today and photographed some birds. Again. Had to wait ages for this fella to spread ‘em:

HDR you ready to rumble?

ad — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:40:53 +0000

I was looking through some photos online last night and saw some amazing effects that were like nothing I’d ever seen before. So I looked into it and it’s called HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography. This article explains it pretty well and it turns out there’s a massive Flickr pool devoted to it too. Obviously some are pretty ropey as it depends how well you use the software, but it gives a general idea of how incredible they can look. Apparently you should bracket exposures for proper HDR, then the software merges them together for some real magical-looking craziness, but I haven’t done that yet and you can get a good approximation anyway using tone-mapping, which approximates the process by squeezing more out of your usual 16-bit RAW image. I’ve had a go on some more photos from last weekend and here are the patchy results. First the RAWs, then the HDRed-up painting-looking ones.

Wuk at the wikkle wams

ad — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:31:43 +0000

Well, finally, spring has started to spring AT EASTER. So snapped some sheeps (probably too many sheeps), an abandoned house in a field, an abandoned caravan and a tree. Inspired. Well at least I found something to point my camera at for a change.

Lunchtime Hilton

ad — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:31:42 +0000

Got out for a few minutes at lunch to photograph that bloody great monolith of a hideous monstrosity of a silly big pile of greeny glass that’s towering over all of Manchester like some massive shiny robot monster. You know the one. It’s going to look rubbish. And these shots are over processed – I know this – so sue me. I like them.