Showing posts with label blue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blue. Show all posts

Thursday, 6 January 2022

Getting it Right in Camera

The challenge was "Blue". I wasn't feeling inspired but I was determined to enter something. It was the final day of the challenge and I had nothing.

It was during a period in which Covid numbers were low, so I was able to go on with my life in something approaching a normal manner. Trouble was that though there were interesting things around, none of them were blue. But this line of grey doors looked interesting. 

Changing the colour of an image in Photoshop is easy, but for this particular challenge no editing was allowed. All changes had to be done in camera. 

No problem. All I had to do was make a couple of changes to my normal settings. First change my white balance. Then I decided this scene would work best as a square, so that required another change to my settings. 

So much easier than my usual workflow where editing takes a lot more time than getting the shot.

Unfortunately my preference for black and white images means I can't often work this way.



Monday, 3 January 2022

Stop Right There

The date was April 1st 2020. South Africa had been in lockdown for four days. At that stage the lockdown was expected to last for 21 days; then it was extended for another two weeks before restrictions were eased slightly. But my own personal restrictions remained in place for a lot longer.

By nature I'm an extremely nervous person and I was particularly concerned about the safety of my elderly mother, so it was to be five months before I could pluck up the courage to go anywhere. In all that time I hadn't even been close to a supermarket, opting to order all our groceries online. But five months later it was a decision I'd come to regret. Returning to a new reality was hard.

But back in April 2020 a three week break from normal life didn't seem that serious.

This was another challenge photo. The challenge was "Exiled in Pandemia". My title was "Stop Right There".



Thursday, 9 June 2016

Windows

I love to take photos of reflections, but don't seem to take anywhere near as many of them as I'd like to. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough. After all this photo was taken at a place I've visited frequently for several years, but I only noticed these patterns for the first time a few months ago.



Linking up with Blue Monday and Weekend Reflections.