A little autumn vignette from this morning before the sun got up. A lone leaf stuck to the virtually vertical windscreen of a parked van, which was reflecting the cool blue of the clear cloudless sky on this sub-zero dawn. The frost patterns really caught my eye.
Posted by Lewis Thomson on November 9, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Love this John!! Very well taken, send some frost southwards please
Cheers,
Lewis.
Posted by Ian Haskell on November 9, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Smashing shot John...
Ian
Posted by Tim Taylor on November 10, 2009 at 2:07 AM
What Maggie said. How often do we walk past extraordinary sights and not notice them? I guess that's one of the roles of good photographers to point them out to us.
I think the thing is that I virtually ALWAYS have a camera with me, so that forces me to think photo. However when I spotted this I had a dog on a lead in one hand and a 17 month old boy on a lead in the other - but I had the lead of the camera round my neck!
I ended up with dog tied to my right leg, small boy tied to the left leg, and my elbows resting on the van bonnet to take the pics, as both restrained creatures tried to escape.
We all get into a tizzy about pixel count, noise, macro ability, field curvature, chromatic abberation blah blah blah and the reality is the small compacts are superb, some more so than others - and I rate the Canon G series very highly - so we are spoiled for choice of picture-making tools. Publishable work is easily obtained with these small cameras - you just need to have it tucked into your jacket and easily to hand.
Posted by David Sewell on November 10, 2009 at 4:10 AM
I sold my small camera (although in truth it wasn't that small). Looking at this I think I may just have to treat myself. Great work and, as others have said, something I would probably have missed.
I'm experimenting with Lightroom for output just now and I have to say the colours in the Lr preview look rather warmer than they do when they get onto the web. I did redo the pic after first upload, and it toned down a tad but still way overblue. I think I need to do some internal colour management in Lr - must be some options I've set wrongly.
I really whacked the slider back this time and it seems to have improved somewhat. Has it improved the view from your armchair?
Posted by Chris O'Reilly on November 11, 2009 at 10:12 AM
John
There seems to have been an improvement in the colour but additionally, the tonal range (and thus, tonal separation) is much improved: the large 'feather-like' patterns in the ice have become much easier to see and the shot benefits greatly from this.
Thanks Chris. There's certanly a great deal more control in Lightroom's develop module than there is in CS2 and I'm still exploring the various options.
Discussion
20 repliesCanon G9, ISO 200, 1/60 f2.8, handheld, RAW.
Beautiful!! And with a G9 as well!
The detail in the leaf is reflected by the patterning on the window,brilliant!!
Craig
www.craigchurchill.co.uk
and well spotted
Love this John!! Very well taken, send some frost southwards please
Cheers,
Lewis.
Ian
Tim
I think the thing is that I virtually ALWAYS have a camera with me, so that forces me to think photo. However when I spotted this I had a dog on a lead in one hand and a 17 month old boy on a lead in the other - but I had the lead of the camera round my neck!
I ended up with dog tied to my right leg, small boy tied to the left leg, and my elbows resting on the van bonnet to take the pics, as both restrained creatures tried to escape.
We all get into a tizzy about pixel count, noise, macro ability, field curvature, chromatic abberation blah blah blah and the reality is the small compacts are superb, some more so than others - and I rate the Canon G series very highly - so we are spoiled for choice of picture-making tools. Publishable work is easily obtained with these small cameras - you just need to have it tucked into your jacket and easily to hand.
David
Well seen and taken - inspirational!
David
T
Brett
Is the colour any better now Tom/Brett?
I'm experimenting with Lightroom for output just now and I have to say the colours in the Lr preview look rather warmer than they do when they get onto the web. I did redo the pic after first upload, and it toned down a tad but still way overblue. I think I need to do some internal colour management in Lr - must be some options I've set wrongly.
I really whacked the slider back this time and it seems to have improved somewhat. Has it improved the view from your armchair?
There seems to have been an improvement in the colour but additionally, the tonal range (and thus, tonal separation) is much improved: the large 'feather-like' patterns in the ice have become much easier to see and the shot benefits greatly from this.
Cheers,
Chris