We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
iced
stirred
tapped
salted
burned
queued
smoked
shovelled
seated
forked
deserved
served
consumed
All shots taken with Nikon D700 and Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.4 lens in Manual mode and ISO200. All other settings made on the fly using the camera’s on board exposure meter, plus I confess to drinking and shooting.
I launched this, my latest Project 365, on Monday 13 June 2016 by posting a single photo each day to my Instagram account and to my Flickr account.
I will post an update each Sunday and you can see them all by clicking here.
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What happens when people open their hearts?
They get better
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
fingered
(three)legged
resigned
seated
poured
stacked
seated (again)
cooked
spotted
branded
pulled
fried
wired
bugged
A social event involving fried eggs, a certain suspension of disbelief, and a bug.
And, the additional application of manual settings.
This was a tough test of my manual aspirations, I had to adjust ISO, aperture and shutter speed. These images are far from perfect but they were an interesting challenge.
All images were made with my Nikon D700 and Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.4 lens.
This time out I chose to shoot in JPEG (fine) and use the Nikon monochrome picture control. Yes, it was an experiment. The images were processed in Lightroom CC but all I did was to make some crops and apply the lens profile adjustments that I referred to in an earlier post.
And you, what do these images say to you?
As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
In my piece out in the midday sun | 4 I wrote about my decision to go manual with my camera, the gallery above is my first real attempt at doing so (well, at least the first time to do so for many years).
Each shot was taken with my Nikon D700 and my favourite Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.4 lens. All the shots were taken with ISO200. I selected an aperture of f/1.4 each time because I was looking for a very shallow depth of field. One side effect of using such a shallow depth of field at this lens (at least in my experience) is that the images are not so sharp, but I still love the effect. The only auto setting that I left in place was white balance which I left sitting at auto. The images were recorded as NEF (Nikon’s proprietary RAW format) which I left at 12-bit (maybe I will switch this back to 14-bit). I used the camera’s on board exposure meter to help figure out the best shutter speed to allow the wide open aperture that I had selected, it was a very sunny day, without a cloud in sight, so some of the shutter speeds were very fast.
I developed the images in Lightroom CC applying the lens correction tools to ‘remove chromatic aberration’ and ‘enable profile corrections’ for the lens that I had chosen. I must also confess that I did also tweak the exposure setting, and add a little sharpening, on a couple of the images, so my experiment was not as pure as my original intention.
But, by and large, these images were as shot using manual settings. I have no plans to revert to any auto settings any time soon, what do you think?
Also, this is part 7 of changing seasons, I missed parts 4, 5 and 6 but then nobody’s perfect.
Oh, and as you can see, I am busy growing a selection of things that can be dropped into drinks, although I forgot to include a shot of my first vine.
I launched my latest Project 365 on Monday 13 June 2016 by posting a single photo each day to my Instagram account and to my Flickr account. I posted my first weekly update (late) on Saturday 25 June 2016. (This post is also late, but at least on the right day, my plan is to post at noon, but hey…)
My favourite here is 030 | 365 I imagine that it is the kind of view one might have in low orbit over a plant like Jupiter, gases swirling beneath with one of its moons in the distance. Or, maybe I need new glasses?
I will post an update each Sunday and you can see them all by clicking here.
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I still want to collect my thoughts and – I can’t, and now there are these little details, these little details…
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When I saw this challenge,I knew I would be unable to resist, I have been neglecting both my photography and my writing recently. Tempted to find a lazy shot from my archive, I walked outside and took a shot of the first thing I saw. It is far from technically good, it was hand held, and taken too quickly. But hey, it’s Friday afternoon, it’s Summer and I’ve been writing proposals all day and it’s now time for a beer, no?
for wordpress weekly photo challenge – details
*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor af-s 70-200mm f/4 lens at 160mm, 1/250s f/4 and IS 1250, should really go back with a tripod and do this properly but decided to submit this anyway as it’s friday*
I launched my latest Project 365 on Monday 13 June 2016 by posting a single photo each day to my Instagram account and to my Flickr account. I posted my first weekly update (late) on Saturday 25 June 2016. (This post is late and should have been published on Sunday, 10 July 2016)
I will post an update each Sunday and you can see them all by clicking here.
Watch the skies!
I launched my latest Project 365 on Monday 13 June 2016 by posting a single photo each day to my Instagram account and to my Flickr account. I posted my first weekly update (late) on Saturday 25 June 2016. (This post is late and should have been published on Sunday, 3 July 2016)
I will post an update each Sunday and you can see them all by clicking here.
Watch the skies!
I launched my latest Project 365 on Monday 13 June 2016 by posting a single photo each day to my Instagram account and to my Flickr account. I posted my first weekly update (late) on Saturday 25 June 2016.
I will post an update each Sunday and you can see them all by clicking here.
Watch the skies!
andy townend 