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.
Watch the skies!
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness
― Mark Twain
Wandering the streets of London, taking a break from working, I found my road blocked by the Prudential RideLondon Classique, apparently the richest women’s one-day race in professional cycling and awarded UCI WorldTour status by the world’s governing body for cycling, the Union CycIiste Internationale (UCI), the race was taking place on a spectacular 5.5km circuit in central London.
And, as luck would have it, I had my camera with me. In manual mode.
For the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Narrow
*Shot with Nikon D700 and Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.4 g lens at ISO200, f/1.4 at 1/1600s*
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.
Watch the skies!
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?
I never see that prettiest thing-
A cherry bough gone white with Spring-
But what I think, “How gay ‘twould be
To hang me from a flowering tree.
– Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep As A Well
My response to this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo challenge – cherry on top – is (and is meant to be) ambiguous. The olive (which I am strangely proud to have planted, watered and nursed into life) or the lonesome cloud.
Who (which, what) is on top, and does it matter anyway?
(ps – this shot was taken with my iPhone 6S and so is not a particularly good example of my newly embraced manual approach)
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.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer
– Rainer Maria Rilke
so no,
or (yet) yes,
anyone’s
guess
in perpetuity
always, (ambiguity)
the clouds and, the
rain
swept, window
pane
conflated with
snow and a (bitter)sweet
scented, candle
flame
that burned
red
and (yet)
(never)
quite
dead
and
the pain
yes,
exhaled
(from)
that, place
lingering
in perpetuity,
in misty,
(ambiguity)
misty (ambiguity)
My prompt for this week’s Poetry 101 Rehab is MISTY (AMBIGUITY), just because
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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.
Watch the skies!
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