Half-Frame Canoeist
More from my recent excursion to Port Renfrew on the west coast of Vancouver Island. I previously posted a picture of a canoe passing under my feet on a bridge. This is the same bridge, and same canoe too, but shot with the Olympus Pen on film rather than through the DSLR. I shot it as a triptych, but I really think that the diptych works better – it invokes imagination and anticipation better than having all three shots together.
On the other hand, the choice between colour and monochrome is a toss-up for me. I lean towards the monochrome for the diptych as it keeps the picture simple and focused on the emerging canoe since I find those luscious greens a bit of a distraction, but it sure is hard to lose them from the shot.
It would be good to hear your opinions on this image – the cropping, and the monochrome conversion. It may take me a while to get back to you as I am off on a research job with intermittent internet connections.
Caged Stairs
These are single shots from the Olympus Pen. All are taken at the same time on either side of the parking lot behind View Towers.
For the top image, more from the same vantage point can be seen in a vertical triptych at the end of this post, and the rest of the same wall can be seen in this one.
Headland Diptych
I like how the in-camera diptych has changed this linear shoreline in front of Beacon Hill Park into a closed bay. On the left to the east is Clover Point, on the right is Finlayson Point. This image is taken looking from the same location on the Beacon Hill stairs that I have featured quite often around here.
This is perhaps not the best exposure but it does accentuate the transformed shape of the water. The weather was downright lousy – raining and strongly overcast in early January – and even though I had the lens wide open and used the shortest shutter speed I was beyond the exposure range of the Olympus Pen. I think it gives an antique snap shot-y feel to the photograph, which this camera model must often have produced in its heyday, and I like that about it. Nothing about this photo asserts digital sensor or high tech.
Forestry Road
This forestry road crossing over a creek makes for a very nice fliptych, giving a strange feeling of a stream. It too is from the Port Renfrew visit of a couple of weeks ago, click here for more shots from this trip. This location is near to the trails into “Avatar Grove” the site of an environmental campaign to save some large old growth trees. We walked along the trail for a way and it was nice to see some of the trees – but it was too dark for the Olympus Pen (and I had no tripod with me).
I can’t make up my mind if I like the colour or the black and white better, so you get them both. I lean towards the black and white, it makes the image a bit more mysterious I think. The slightly different horizontal alignment (more bridge approach in one than the other) also happens to work really well here, though not intended. It’s hard enough getting the vertical alignments to match – nailing both is pretty tricky.
Sunrise by Trial
This is a much lighter version of a view that I showed before as Storm Drain Sunrise IV – Andy Hooker referred to the cloud as oppressive, which was the perfect term for that photo. The different exposure and treatment of this photo has resulted in a brighter and more welcoming view out at Trial Island.
I don’t know about anyone else but I think the wave line in the foreground adds quite a bit to this picture.
Phi Theta
I can’t easily decide between the Phi and Theta versions of this fliptych, but right at this moment I prefer Theta (above). This is the side of the cabin I stayed in at Port Renfrew a couple of weeks ago. It really is this colour, or very nearly anyway. The driftwood was perfectly placed for a fliptych.
This photo was made with the (well one of the) aim(s) of obscuring the black bar between the frames by placing that edge next to a dark area in the photo. As usual, it is two adjacent frames scanned together as one image, and the camera was rotated 180 degrees between shots.
The roll of film was from my parents, given to me with cameras they no longer needed. It is the first roll of colour I have run through the Olympus Pen. It expired in July 2009 so I was not sure if I would be getting any useable shots. Many turned out quite well, so I am hopeful the remaining two rolls will also be good. I hear they have some more in the freezer, though of what type I am not sure. I have held off shooting this film until I got a neutral density filter that would allow me to expose it in bright light since the camera has a pretty narrow EV band of exposures, and 200 ISO is too fast for bright daylight without cutting a couple of f-stops worth of light. Finding 22.5mm filters is not all that easy, but it has been done.
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