LR_-0507 - Well I liked it after attempting to get what I pressed the button on :)
Shot 507 with the new box and lens, so slowly, slowly catch the monkey.
LR
Canon EOS 7D + EF-S15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Freehand
Great Broadband
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Stumped Fungi
Blue Monday - The Flip Flop, flop
LR_-0731 - Just the one at the entrance to the woods
Bit of Fats to whirl away the time
Experiments in Light continue - The Thistle
LR_-0725 - Love the colour in these, still a little bit of a focus issue and light still all over the place, Work In Progress then
Look Daddy, bubbles
IMG_0268_PScrop_LR - My little Princess with bubbles, everybody home at the weekend, lots of smiles all round and even the sun done it's bit to. Slightly windy for a bubble day, but persevered as the children where insistent :)
Another below
sBay to the West
LR-0426 - New lens, sorry if they are boring you, but just trying different stuff to see how I go. Another that didn't make it as SOOC, so some Lightroom treatment to understand what went wrong :)
Free hand, probably should have used the tripod
Do It Daily @ Today's Posting
Make a photograph with a low horizon line today., post it then Tag it with #TP264
AWe Some MG 818
IMG_0142_PS-1 - Went out to try the new lens and Sunday dinner, saw this in the car park and just had to pop a few shots off.
Sadly just could find an angle with just the MG, a few months ago this would have been stored for future generations. So loaded up Photoshop Elements 10 and had a play around, quite pleased with the result, probably still needs to be progressed some more, but I am only a novice.
The original is below, shame about the car behind
Just the Two ...Close and Distant
IMG_0195 - As the day progresses, seem to be getting the hang of the new lens. Slight problems with AF seems to be alternative focus, rather than auto at the moment, probably because I have never really used it before.
SOOC
Canon EOS D7
Freehand
Out of the Light - Shady Character, but ever green
Out of the Light - Shady Character, but ever green, originally uploaded by Rusty Marvin (experimenting).
P1860130 - Always to dark, yes I know but I sort of like em that way.
SOOC
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Free hand
Out of the light - Take me to your Leader
P1860119 - Bit of fun in the woods on a Saturday afternoon.morning, to knackered to think what time of day it was
SOOC
DMC G1 + LUMIX G 14/F2.5
Freehand
Happy Fairy Friday
LR-1850019 - HFF
Happy Fence Friday everyone Have a super weekend.
Tweaked in LIghtroom
DMC G1 + Wide angle lens
FReehand
Thursday, 26 July 2012
Out of the Light - Attraction or Necessity
P1850744 - Unusual to find spiders on Ferns, well in this neck of the woods, mainly ferns or fronds are not much use as they move around a lot, so building your web would be a waste of time. NOt quite the image I wanted, but it was there and had to have a pop at it.
SOOC
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Free hand
Do It Daily @ Today's Posting
Illustrate attraction in a photograph today., post it then Tag it with #TP261
The Old School House, but I might be wrong !
P1840935 - I was always told this was the original school house in Heathenstreet (16th Century) now Havenstreet. The small hamlet was considered to be in control of what is now Ryde, some three miles away. The ecclestical parish was formed from Arreton and Newchurch in 1853, some 22 years later the railway arrived, in 1892 the Ryde and Haven street councils joined and built a larger single room school house opposite. This were I may be wrong, in the sense that above (now converted to a dwelling) may have been something else, perhaps a chapel (but the dates are all wrong). The image below shows Havenstreet and Ryde School board 1896, four years after the building above. The Victorian era saw huge population booms, perhaps there was no statistics and another larger building was built or there was political going on's to join the two parishes together (Havenstreet and Ryde).
Ryde the now larger town did not really change from a small fishing village until the end of the 19th Century, made popular by sail powered boats collecting fresh water from Monkton Mead, this included the first fleets that sailed to Australia all 1,030 of which 753 were Convicts & their children!
The school house below was in use up to a few years ago and certainly was a single group school house with children from the legal attendance age (5) up to 11 year old. Now a community centre.
The whole education age thing has been turned inside out, the Isle of Wight Education unit has followed central governments requirements and now there are huge school units on one site. The school units are now in a two stage set 5-11, 11-16 (I think), which aligns to pre the 11 plus exam system (which was remove due to incompatibility of little people of those age groups). The logic may be based on the decline in children of school age, aligning to the post war peaks of baby boomer's, the boomer's-boomer's and now their off spring with smaller family in recent years.
The third picture in the series relates to the school used in the Havenstreet catchment area. This makes we wonder if free transport is provided. Some legal requirement to transport children to school who lived more than three away from the school. Or the flocks of urban assault vehicles containing one or two children with the yummy mummies, driving like they are in charge of a tank crushing the revolution every morning and afternoon. Most think they are driving a Hummer or something that wide or wider........ok for another day before I drift off topic.
SOOC (All)
DMC G1 + Wide angle lens
Freehand
Scavenger Challenge
12. Bonus points for a one-room schoolhouse, the assignment specifies school buildings.
Do It Daily @ Today's Posting
Practice storytelling today. Look for 3 images that tell a story, and make a set of photos that go together. #TP258
Out of the Light - Comes the Bokeh
P1850259 - Ok I'll admit it, completely in love with little bits of light, what you don't see is the hundreds of these I take for my own amusement (without the Bokeh though).
SOOC
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Free hand
Do It Daily @ Today's Posting
Bokeh'in crazy so lets see your shots with Bokeh in today., post it then Tag it with #TP260
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Out of the Light - Hogweed Light Express
P1840721 - The light was from the side and at 10:00, so I think it meets the requirements. Here we are on a bright sunny day just after 10:00 am with visual sight of heat rising quickly from the stream and its banks, playing tricks with your eyes. Sometimes you can catch these moments other times you catch something else, here's the else :)
SOOC
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Tripod
Do It Daily @ Today's Posting
Challenge: Side lighting can emphasize texture and add depth to a photo. Make a dramatic photo with side lighting today., post it then Tag it with #TP259
Out of the Light - Comes the Dark
P1840711 - These are midges on a very bright day flying around in swarms ready to get any bare skin showing. Taken at about 20 foot away and the edge of another woods about 60 foot away. Sun was to the right, just in case you're interested.
The World is full of surprises and you never know, what or how things happen, but they do!
SOOC
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Tripod
Do It Daily @ Today's Posting
Insects are everywhere. Photograph a bug in your environment (no spiders - they're arachnids).#TP257
Bubble Camera Caught in the Moment
LR_P1830540_Sq-2 - How to whirl away your Saturday, I wish!
Went to a Birthday party at a friends house and chilled
Photoshop crop and blur, plus a slight shadow tweak in Lightroom
DMC G1 + wide angle
Free hand
Saturday, 21 July 2012
Clouds and the Internet - or - Web Clouds
LR-1820900 - Well all the best placed plans of mice and men, do not always work out. The next series has been mixed, but something didn't quite work well in the cooker, oh well back to the drawing board and some shots of the sky and stuff.
Apologies to my fellow Today's Posting friends, for not being around that much, limited time and had to run with a whole bunch of ideas I have had. You can view the results of 50 Shades of Grey if you like.
Light room tweaks, probably made it worse than the original
DMC G1 + LUMIX G 14/F2.5
Free hand
Do It Daily @ Today's Posting
What's your favorite device to access the Internet? Make a photograph of it today.
#TP244
Well it's the twisted pair in the telephone lines for me, no fibre here
Friday, 20 July 2012
50 Shades of Grey - Isha - the study of
50 Shades of Grey - Isha
P1810867_PS - A Not So Real candid - there's a clue for the next set!
This is Isha, leather moulded into a figure, watched these guys making these amazing skill once they had mastered it and when you think it comes from a flat hide, you have to be impress as they mould it by hand using water and the sun and a lump of wood.
Nicer in the light box
Cinematic 16:9 Tweak with the colour a little, added the black borders in PS, the blur on the hair is intentional to give the impression of breeze
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Tripod - lighting 7 watt energy bulb, on the floor below, bounced off a black form board, pen torch, swiped twice down the nose line, highlighting the chin.
Concept was to create a set of candid's, doing something or expressing an emotion to build a story up using a cinematic cut/crop 16:9. So you can view the set 50 Shades of Grey or use the tags #rm50shadesofgrey
Scavenger Challenge
20 These photographs should together create one cohesive series with a specific theme.
Theme is to challenge myself to take some candid's and present them in a single style
50 Shades of Grey - Entangled Entrapment
LR-1810659_PS - Another one from the long, I missed the sunset story. So here is a little more of the fence.
HFF - Happy Fence Friday everyone here's hoping your weekend brings you everything you want..!
Cinematic 16:9 few tweaks in Lightroom, black borders in PS
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
Concept was to create a set of candid's, doing something or expressing an emotion to build a story up using a cinematic cut/crop 16:9. So you can view the set 50 Shades of Grey or use the tags #rm50shadesofgrey
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
50 Shades of Grey - Rock and a Hard Place
P1810782_PS - Been waiting days (seen it on Monday lunchtime) for the sun to come out, so finally gave up today and thought the sky would match the rocks. Really strong breeze, so could not quite get the position I wanted but liked it anyways.
Cinematic 16:9 SOOC just added the black borders in PS
DMC G1 + DMC G1 + LUMIX G 14/F2.5
Freehand
Concept was to create a set of candid's, doing something or expressing an emotion to build a story up using a cinematic cut/crop 16:9. So you can view the set 50 Shades of Grey or use the tags #rm50shadesofgrey
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
50 Shades of Grey - The Lonely dancer
P1810742_PS - Not quite your normal candid, but love the simplicity, there is a whole back story to this, that could go on for hours. Here's the short version; saw this wonderful sunset going off as I drove up the dual carriageway, unable to stop for a number of reason, managed to pull in to a service station, not for fuel and wondered if I could get some shots of the sun set or had I missed the best bit, well I had, but came across this bit of fence, more of it later and popped a few shots.
Cinematic 16:9 SOOC just added the black borders in PS
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
Concept was to create a set of candid's, doing something or expressing an emotion to build a story up using a cinematic cut/crop 16:9. So you can view the set 50 Shades of Grey or use the tags #rm50shadesofgrey
50 Shades of Grey - Engrossed
P1810350_PS - There are a few ways to deal with a ferry crossing on a regular basis, read the paper, use the laptop, sit and chat, take pictures; but the common factor appears to be Coffee!
This guy got his coffee his paper and sat completely engrossed for the whole trip.
Cinematic 16:9 crop and black borders in PS
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
Do It Daily @ Today's Posting
Make a photograph that features a sign of some sort today. Maybe a stop sign. Maybe an information sign. Or an advert. #TP251
Concept was to create a set of candid's, doing something or expressing an emotion to build a story up using a cinematic cut/crop 16:9. So you can view the set 50 Shades of Grey or use the tags #rm50shadesofgrey
50 Shades of Grey - Contemplation
P1810377_PS - Thinking about ..................
Cinematic 16:9 crop and black borders in PS
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
Concept was to create a set of candid's, doing something or expressing an emotion to build a story up using a cinematic cut/crop 16:9. So you can view the set 50 Shades of Grey or use the tags #rm50shadesofgrey
Monday, 16 July 2012
50 Shades of Grey - Bemused
P1810525_PS - Just coming into dock and a handful of people came out on deck to see where they were going to disembark. This lady came out on to the deck and just stared straight ahead not a glimpse and almost not a flicker in her facial expression, it must have been sun somewhere or she didn't like day light.
Cinematic 16:9 crop and black borders in PS
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
50 Shades of Grey - Proud
P1810403_PS - This guy was nearly running around the boat with his daughter getting her stop every now and then to take a shot on the mobile phone.
Cinematic 16:9 crop and black borders in PS
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
50 Shades of Grey - OMG it did!
P1800645_PS - Another family candid, now I could write a whole back story on this one, but didn't watch them interact (mainly because the other family) but this lot provided a huge range of emotions, from pointing surprise, OMG thinking perhaps wishing.
Cinematic 16:9 crop and black borders in PS - nit harsher on the crop here, there was some hair detail in the original, but trying to use the expressionism to make an OMG statement
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
Been thinking about how to improve the crop and watched (unusual for me) a film Cowboys and Aliens or something like that, which interestingly continually cut the tops of peoples heads off the frame, there was very little facial activity or speaking, but they seemed to make powerful statements.
50 Shades of Grey - Wish
- Another family candid, now I could write a whole back story on this one, but didn't watch them interact (mainly because the other family) but this lot provided a huge range of emotions, from pointing surprise, OMG thinking perhaps wishing.
Cinematic 16:9 crop and black borders in PS
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
Been thinking about how to improve the crop and watched (unusual for me) a film Cowboys and Aliens or something like that, which interestingly continually cut the tops of peoples heads off the frame, there was very little facial activity or speaking, but they seemed to make powerful statements.
Sunday, 15 July 2012
50 Shades of Grey - Hunger or Fad
P1800231_PS - Makes you wonder, if we in the so called civilized world eat because we are hungry or it is something we do at a set brought on from our childhood. Then what does civilized mean, drive a car and get angry because the person is going to fast or to slow, walk in to a super market and get cross because your favorite product has gone or is that is the uncivilized world you cannot connect to the internet !
any ways couple of lads having some chips while the lady in the distance is trying to get into a famous restaurant before it opens.
Cinematic 16:9 crop and black borders in PS
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Tripod
Saturday, 14 July 2012
50 Shades of Grey - Communicaiton
P1800808_PS - This family of three spent most of their time on the top deck, the lady (assumed to be mother) spent the whole time of the phone. She also had really detailed make up on, the daughter with her DM's and pig tails, but having a Gothic stance, Dad just happy to be dad :) The set of them made me smile.
Cinematic 16:9 crop and black borders in PS
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
50 Shades of Grey - The Sneaker
P1800817_PS - This lady appeared to sneak up to the top deck of the car ferry for a quick tote on a cigarette. Still playing with the back of people on the candid's, mainly to understand composition and frame them.
Cinematic 16:9 crop and black borders in PS
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
Fender Bender Sculpture by Morris
LR-1800906-2 - You have seen bits of it before, it is an Post Office van, continuing on the red theme from yesterdays poppies.
Fairly convinced it is a Morris Minor van, but it would appear have a side valve engine, so this ages it before my time.
Bit of a play with colours in Lightroom - taken in between heavy showers whilst wandering around the woods.
DMC G1 + LUMIX G 14/F2.5
Tripod
Scavenger Challenge
5. Old rusty trucks and cars make interesting photographic subjects. Search one out!
HPFF - The Escape Artist
P1800510 - Saw these last Friday, but as some had pull the tip all the water out the sky lever, they did pose in front of the lens, windy today but a little bit of sun.
Happy Poppy Fence Friday here's hoping you all have an excellent weekend apologies, been a bit busy, I have been viewing and pop the occasional comment when I get a few spare moments and not sleeping.
SOOC
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Free hand
Three or Thirds and another bell in the sky
P1800359 - had some terfic clouds over the Medway today, so a couple of shots and really thought I should probably get something in for some thirds.
SOOC - rotate anticlockwise
DMC G1 + LUMIX G 14/F2.5 Focus Mode:Auto, Continuous, AFMode: Auto or Face Detect
Free hand
Do It Daily @ Today's Posting
Illustrate the rule of thirds using a busy background., post it then Tag it with #TP246
Liking the lens distortion at the top
The Cloud Maker
P1800420 - It is an oldchimney down on the dockyards that is not longer used, we had some terfic clouds over the Medway today and like the whole theory behind something pumping out clouds.
SOOC - rotate anticlockwise
DMC G1 + LUMIX G 14/F2.5 Focus Mode:Auto, Continuous, AFMode: Auto or Face Detect
Free hand
Shame I could not manage to get the chimney detail in this
PS It really nice in 1600
Bike Candid
P1800333 - Basically just liked the idea, so went for it
SOOC
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Tripod
Princess and Teddy - FE137 and FE25 - home port
P1800211 Both registered in Folkestone
SOOC
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Tripod
FE137 and FE25
FE75 - Shades of Blue Folkestone (Rowena)
P1800166
SOOC
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II
Tripod
FE75 Rowena
P for Purple P40 - Registered Portsmouth
P1800162 - yes on the lean but kinda of like it that was
SOOC
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II
Tripod
When the Chips are down - Just Do It!
P1800269_LR - Lightroom crop, quite pleased with these shots, all manual focus and with the sun from the right at 45 degrees against a black ground
Lightroom crop only
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II
Tripod
When the Chips are down ......apply air breaks
P1800258 - There's a story to it, but something went wrong with my settings on Flickr
SOOC
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
Was an Empty beach
P1800086 - There I was one mile plus of beach not a soul in site, click, not quite click, what's that in my frame
SOOC
DMC G1 + LUMIX G 14/F2.5
Freehand
Monday Blue Bell on a Wire! aka Out of Tune
P1800068 - The answer is I don't know, a piece of wire on post 40 foot high holds the bell and it has a smaller wire for the knocker.
SOOC
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
Scavenger Challenge
11. Ring a bell? Doorbells, bicycle bells, jingle bells, steeple bells...if it dings, it's good.
A K DOLVEN
TITLE: Out of Tune
Location: Old Rotunda site, seafront
Born: 1953 Oslo, Norway
Lives/Works: London and Lofoten, Norway
Since the 1990s Norwegian artist A K Dolven has worked with the idea of being at odds with one’s surroundings, and more specifically, for the past three years, with disused bells. ‘Out of Tune’ continues a series of similar titles such as ‘Out of Time’, ‘Out of Balance’ and ‘Out of Season’.
Folkestone Seafront, opposite The Leas Lift, CT20 1PX Dolven’s installation features a 16th-century tenor bell from Scraptoft Church in Leicestershire, which had been removed for not being in tune with the others. It will be suspended from a steel cable strung between two 20m high steel beams, placed 30m apart. The bell can be rung by visitors using a traditional rope bell-pull. citation
Things to do on a rainy day ..
LR-1790537 - Down at the Met on Ventnor Esplanade, lunch with Mrs RM and daughter, nice day on the inside, will admit the outside was pretty rotten. Spotted these snuck in the corner only illuminated by the light from the window, had to crop some people out the way and would of liked to get more than one shot in, but getting looks :)
Played a little with the tones a little in Lightroom, crop
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
You still singing along !
P1790641_LR_PS - Best I could do in poor light conditions today, candid wave!
Played a little with the tones a little in LIghtroom, just to see if I could make it any better, liking the 16:9 crop and borders and title added in Photoshop 10
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
We're all going on a ............!
P1790514_lr_ps - Intentionally out of focus, why because I liked it, took a few and this one expressed the weather more than any of the others :)
You know the words, so click here and sing along, might bring a smile to your face.
The ratio is at 16:9 Cinematic, probably could have done with a thicker band ?
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Freehand
Grain in Focus Layers
P1790619 - Ventured South, not yet understood why the weather is always bad when we do this.
Wanted to get a different view of a beach and really liked this, probably not every-bodies couple of tea, but some will and some won't, so tell me if you do or don't :)
SOOC
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Free hand
Scavenger Challenge
3. Grain can refer to a food type, wood, sand, a visual texture in a photo, etc. Go grainy!
Experiment - At 30 Paces - Fern I
P1750325 - A group of images/photographs taken at between 25 and 40 feet (10-13 metres) with a Panasonic DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus). Forming part of experimenting with a new lens, just to see how far you can go. A handful taken in windy conditions and low light, so quite pleased with the results on most.
SOOC
DMC G1 + Canon 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 II (manual focus)
Tripod
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