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I was a little hard pressed for something to post today. Many photos were taken but none with lensbaby lenses. Just didn’t have the right subjects for that. So, I had to turn back to yesterday’s beach walk as there hasn’t been time for a beach walk today. Lot’s of eating though… Anyway, I processed this in Nik Silver efex pro using the Film Noir filter. I’m afraid it looks a little more creepy than artistic but hey, Halloween is coming.
Here is another one from my nighttime adventures in Bordeaux. Once again I got so caught up in the sight seeing I didn’t take time to change lenses. I was going to go out for an early evening stroll with the Sweet 50 but got waylaid in the hotel lobby to join in an evening snack with some of the girls. Just the ticket after a heavy lunch and a long series of three course dinners stretching on from 7 to 10pm. Dinner in France is not a meal, it is an event. Anyway, I decided this one should be monotone since it was close to it anyway but way too yellow from the street lights. I used a sepia tone and added a frame in Nik Color Efex Pro.
We had a whirlwind tour of Paris this morning. The only place we were allowed off the bus was for a photo of the Eiffel Tower. I’m not sure why it had such a strong vignette on the left but it gave it a sort of old timey look so I decided to go with it and processed it in Silver Efex Pro with a Sepia tone and a frame. This was shot with the Trio 28 by the way. I had to crop it some and added a high pass filter as well. I like that the people were in blur. I’m pretty sure I had it on sweet. After dinner I will get my travel blog going so if you want to see more of Paris go to http://jeannehoadley.com/Travel.
I thought about posting an image before I left home but then I thought maybe I’d stop and find something interesting to photograph. Didn’t happen. Once on the road, I’m on the road. I arrived at my Park and Fly hotel in Portland with no new images to show for the day. And though the landscaping was a little tempting I remembered that I still had my coast pictures on the laptop so why not. This Jellyfish was part of the Bandon Labyrinth I photographed in August using the Sweet 50. I’m going to have to do a better job of documenting which lenses I’m using as one thing about Lensbaby is they don’t record metadata. And, while my memory is still pretty good, keeping 100 days worth of images sorted is a challenge even for me.
Since there wasn’t much color in this image to begin with I opted for a black and white treatment in Silver Efex Pro. But first I did a High Pass filter to emphasize the lines. I thought of using a blue tone to represent the sea but it was just too cold so I went for Sepia for the sand. I also added a border since this one is all about lines.
So if this looks a lot like yesterday’s image I count that as a success. My online art group had an assignment this month to create three related images processed in the same way. Since I didn’t get around to shooting something new today I thought I would go back to the Lithia Park images and give it a try. Same black and white conversion in Silver Efex Pro, same Dark Sepia toning, same texture from 2 Lil Owls. And also shot with the Burnside 35. Something about rustic stairs I can never resist. I think the third in the series may also be of stairs.
Today I decided to take a camera walk in Ashland. I circled across the plaza and in to Lithia Park. I had the Burnside 35 mounted on the Canon EOS R, aka the big girl mirrorless camera. One reason I like this image is that it lets the Burnside strut it’s stuff. You can see how it fades off into blur with just a hint of twist in the bokah. I also like the dappling of sun through the boards on the bridge. For processing I made it a monotone with a sepia finish. Then I added a texture which brings back just a hint of color.
It was a busy day and while I did stop by North Mountain Park on my way home I never got around to downloading the images. So, I decided it was time to turn to the archives. I found this chess set at the barnstormer’s vintage fair. I knew as soon as I saw the raw image that it wanted to be black and white. I added a light vignette and a border. This was shot with the Sweet 50 by the way.
I seem to be on a vertical kick lately. Well, a lot of images were made today and I even got a few good ones. My efforts with lensbaby lenses fell a little short however. The light was awfully flat today with typical summer overcast skies at the coast. And the animals I was trying to photograph at the aquarium were moving around a little too much for the manual focus requirements of lensbaby.
This image of Yaquina Head Lighthouse was captured with the Burnside lens mounted on the Canon EOS R. Burnside is designed for street photography at 35 mm but the wide angle is also suitable for lighthouses. In the right conditions Burnside will give a swirly effect in the bokah. It also has a switch on the side that allows you to add more or less vignetting. Burnside is my newest lensbaby and I still need to work with it to master it’s full range of possibilities.
For some reason they have painted the top of the lighthouse black. I remember when it was red like other Oregon lighthouses. But with the flat light there wasn’t much color in the image so I opted to go full on monochrome in Nik Silver Efex Pro. I selected the Yellowed preset but added some structure and contrast. I also touched up some 20th century features like wires running down the side of the lighthouse using the spot healing brush. I also took out a few tourists who did not add to the story I wanted to tell.
I was able to kill two birds with one stone today as I set out to work on the Oregon Coast Project I had only to pull a lensbaby out of the bag to complete the 100 days entry. While I was headed to Newport this trip I had learned that the Circles in the Sands folks would be doing a labyrinth in Bandon today so I made a detour to arrive a little after the crowds had died down. Today they had a heart theme going on. Since I already had the Sol 45 out I went ahead and continued using it on the M3. This image was pretty monotone to begin with so I took it into Nik Silver Efex Pro and chose the Film Noir preset. I see a potential Note card here but I think I might go with a sepia tone when I get around to printing it.
I’ve been thinking about photographing skaters at the ice skating rink for almost a year now. I didn’t make it over there before it closed last year so I finally made a point to go play with my new camera this weekend. Most of the skaters were pretty slow at best or wall huggers at worst, forcing me to back away from the wall where I was trying to photograph. But this guy was into it and created some good motion blur. I treated it with a duo tone effect… not quite black and white but almost.