Coffee Lines
Another shot taken while testing the Olympus XA2 – this crop is a nice complement to yesterday’s post. Below is the uncropped image.
Photo taken in Fernwood at the Parsonage Cafe, purveyors of great coffee and food.
Square Lines IV
More from the Olympus XA2 in Market Square. This is part of this series that I took along one of the decks – here the railings are partially blocked by a staircase.
Square Lines III
More from testing the Olympus XA2. This is part of a series taken while testing two different XA2 cameras.
I thought this shot upwards at a skylight worked out. The view from the balcony above is the first shot in this post.
Square Lines II
Another shot taken while testing the Olympus XA2. This is part of a set that I took along one of the decks. In this case there must have been light reflecting from a window.
Square Diagonals
Visually Market Square is an interesting place – far more than I had realised before I was looking for excuses to shoot film when testing the Olympus XA2.
This is part of a mini-series (the first part is Square Lines) that arises from testing the camera and working through 3 rolls of film as I sorted out light leaks and also bought a second XA2 for myself (the other was for my neighbour). Thus, three rolls of film in just a few days, many of them shot in Market Square.
More shots from Market Square to come, some converted to black and white from colour negatives like most of today’s set, others in colour. All are shot on the same kind of film.
Two Blind Shots
Today I share a post with Melinda Green Harvey featuring photos that we each took in Fan Tan Alley in Chinatown. What a pleasure to have her excellent photography on these pages.
When she was visiting a month ago we toured around Victoria, cameras in hand. In Fan Tan Alley I noticed her taking a picture through some clear plastic vertical strips hanging in an opening in the wall that looks into a room under renovation. I would never have thought to shoot this subject, especially as the light at the far end was extremely bright compared to the foreground and alley. Anyway, I shamelessly stole her concept and took the shot above. She has kindly shared her photo from the same moment, which is below. And, she too is posting both these images on her blog today.
I don’t recall seeing such blinds before. I suppose they serve to let light in, to ventilate and to prevent smaller stuff from flying into the alley.
Shazam
I took these three pictures while showing fellow photographer/blogger Melinda Green Harvey around Victoria a month ago.
Yesterday she posted a photograph from this location (Don’t Just Dream). I thought it would be interesting to post mine as well as there are interesting differences that speak to how different people see the world around them. I commented to this effect on her post, but decided the comment was worthy of a post of my own.
One main difference is what we chose to focus our lenses on. Melinda immediately keyed into the message in the graffiti she photographed. Since she is also a writer her ear/eye is trained to words in a way that mine is not.
While I noticed the graffiti she photographed, and read it, I did not actually Read it, or get its message. Thus I did not bother to photograph that patch. I was more interested in the aged buildings as a whole, and the context they provide for graffiti and thus only took a couple of detail shots.
Another difference is post-processing – Melinda has said in her blog that she shoots mostly with the idea of black and white conversion, and that once a picture is converted she cannot remember the colours of the original. I rarely anticipate a shot will be good in black and white but frequently discover in post that it should be converted.
In this case black and white was in my mind, though the Shazam graffiti is a bright pink and it was with regret that I changed that colour. My detail shots were processed in Photomatix-Pro with tonemapping of a single image while the general setting shot was processed in Lightroom 5. Melinda’s image was processed with NIK Silver Efex. I like how her treatment has made the stone look almost wet and really brings up the detail. It seems like that software may be on my wish list pretty soon!
Top Posts & Pages – Click Thumbnail To View
Recent Comments
♦ FUJITA (藤田光学工業) H.… on Fujitar P.C 35mm F2.5 Asahifle… ehpem on Child’s Grave Kyle Hoyt on Child’s Grave ehpem on Charles Elliott Pole, Universi… Lisa Kadonaga on Charles Elliott Pole, Universi…
burnt embers 