Shooting Windows
The collaboration with Melinda Green Harvey continues. Her co-post for today can be found here .
The shadow in the photo above is Melinda’s and was cast while she was taking the photo below at Jordan River. Jordan River is a very small place beside the road from Victoria to Port Renfrew on the south west edge of Vancouver Island.
Beside the highway are some old buildings from a logging operation that was based here. I have photographed these buildings before and knew that Melinda would like them too. We poked around more than I had done before, and found a derelict house that was open, and you will see photos from inside it tomorrow.
I don’t know if the builder was anticipating flooding but foundations rising to the window sills seems a bit excessive. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. After all they provide nice grain for Melinda’s shadow.
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For other posts in this collaboration click on this link.
My photo – Canon 5Dii, Canon 16-38/2.8 lens @ 35mm
Melinda photo – Nikon D7000, 28/1.8 lens
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burnt embers 
This is turning out to be a great idea – two quite different approaches and both valid and worth viewing. Evidence that we all see differently. Wish I had a buddy over here to experiment with this idea.
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Hi Andy. I think it might be about the same distance from Lubbock to the UK as it is to British Columbia so perhaps your wish will be answered (ok, I just looked, 7+hrs flying time to me, 12+hrs flying time to you) so quite a difference.
Maybe you could try other variations from a distance, like sharing a raw file with someone and both of you processing it in your own ways to see how the image gets interpreted. I was thinking it might be fun to do something like that with a small group of photographers to see how the same electronic data are interpreted.
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Your suggestion has I know been done on-line before with some HDR brackets, but I don’t think it has been done with a single RAW Image. It’s an interesting idea…
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I’ve seen thos hdr bracket exchanges a while back now. Perhaps that is where the idea came from.
I’d be game to try even though my post processing skills are a bit rudimentary. And I bet there are others that would like to as well.
Melinda and I just discovered it takes quite a bit of time just agreeing on the process and organising the details and sharing shortlinks before publication and so on. Probably did not help that we crammed more than a week of posts into an afternoon. Or tried to.
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Andy – maybe you and Ehpem should just plan to meet up here in Texas?
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Excellent idea!
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Maybe I should head back to Whistler BC for a ski trip and take in Vancouver Island at the same time!
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Great idea – you would be welcome to stay with us. And if the season is a good one, there is said to be good skiing on Vancouver Island too at Mt. Washington – not nearly as montane as Whistler area but some years gets a lot of snow.
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Too bad I can’t entice you with any skiing in Texas….
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I hear you have floods down your way, Melinda. Hope you are not affected by them or the Tornado we have heard about.
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Thank you for thinking of me, Andy. We’ve gotten a lot of rain, but no flooding in our part of the state. I have a quite a few acquaintances who live in the San Marcos and Wimberley areas, which were hit by devastating and deadly floods over the weekend; it’s a sad time in our state.
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I think it would have been nice if you provided an old chair for Mel’s photos, but she seems to be doing fine without it.
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That’s a good point. I was trying to travel (relatively) light, so left the chair at home. If my Photoshop skills were better, I could just add one in.
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A chair would have be a thoughtful gesture. A short step-ladder more so! Or one of those 1950s kitchen stools with a step that folds in underneath.
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I’ve been thinking of getting a pair of those short stilts like painters and drywall hangers use (http://thd.co/1C8pTAg).
Although with my inherent clumsiness, that may be not be best idea I’ve had.
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I’d hate using them among blackberry vines like we had here. The “toes” would always be catching.
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But the vines would cushion the inevitable falls. And if was the right time of the year, we’d be able to get a bit of a snack while we were down.
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Nice use of the Royal We! You aren’t going to convince me to strap those things on. Especially around thorns. Though they could be handy for the really high up berries that is just not enough incentive.
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Ok, then…if you don’t want to be adventuresome. Let me know if we change our mind!
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