A Whole 2 Days

Two days of non-stop shooting has availed a multitude of pictures(most of which I deleted because they just could not be salvaged). All campus photos which include people, buildings, ducks and a dead squirrel (it would have also included a dead fish if I hadnt deleted the photo). With summer almost at an English peak, it became a good opportunity to go out and photograph everything from the living, the inanimate and the dead.

Moving on, still using my E65 so most of the photos are still in monotone to disguise the horrendous amount of noise and the bad discolourations. Will hopefully revert back to the SLR soon when I get a charger. It'll be a little bit more time before that happens so bear with me.


People basking in the sun. As usual, there was major flare because the camera just couldn't process the bright sunshine. It allowed for a good silohuette effect but it did, however, cause some loss of detail in the middle bit of the photo thus the big block of blackness.
Duck photos of course. Taking advantage of the ripple patterns in the water...not too bad I have to say after a spot of editing.



Finally some colour. One of the few which I could salvage but note the massive flare at the top. It's annoying but there are just some things which can't be helped. Also edited the photo to emphasise the reflections in the water

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Study Spring

With a Nokia E65...
will comment later

You know you can Photograph

Who knew a small 2-megapixel camera attached to a mobile phone could do so much...

Of course, there is tonnes of editing involved in terms of colour and tones and what not...


Okay...bottom and top...obviously the same photo but with adiff colour tone. Deliberately done of course with the intention of creating two complately diff atmospheres. The top one was given more colour and a little more character but by decreasing its saturation, it gave the photo a more subdued look which in return I suppose, allowed a more flowing and relaxed feel.

The bottom one sort of did the same thing but by making it almost sepia, it gave the photo a more cold look. Not a very friendly atmosphere. It's still pleasant but you'd much rather hang the top one up in your living room than the bottom one




Note the massive amount of flare in the top one...Flares arent ideal in photos and in fact, you'd be better of without them. An SLR would not have eliminated this problem but it would have definitely reduced it. But in any case, I decided to go against that common belief just for the sake of capturing the rest of the scene which was almost perfect (in my opinion anyways). Having edited the photo however, the flare managed to make that massive hole in the tree with the flares eminating from the middle...not ideal if you think of it as a giant disrupting, displaced bokeh but it in a way (to me anyways) gave the photo a more supernatural and surreal look which, although not intentional, is something I can appreciate


I just realised i have uploaded this photo before but hey....the theme in this post is obviously trees so Im just gonna leave this one up

Subdued

Well, yes...Ive left my photos pretty wordless these past few months(more like this past year)...think I owe everyone (if there's anyone) some photo descriptions...
All the photos were taken with a Nokia E65 and obviously, quality is not as good as an SLR's. So what do you do? Use it's shortcomings to your advantage. No use whining about the fact that the pixels aren't spot on or that the noise is overwhelmingly distracting. The above photo was taken in a very dark setting hence, the amount of noise was unbelievable! So to fix that...

...turn it into a B&W. I also increased the contrast to give it a more retro look. I knew, having taken the photo, that the colour couldn't be salvaged. Why not turn it into a sepia? I felt that there was too much noise for a sepia...sepias in my opinion should have a bit of sharpness to it.


Another E65 photo....i edited it to obtain the sillohuettes. The original photo had very little colour detail on the trees and the building but yet the camera was able to pick up on the crisp detail of the trees and the rich colours of the sky. So I figured the best way to preserve those two features while eliminating the nasty colours on the trees was to increase the contrast which not only blacked out any disgusting colours but also exaggerated the rich gold colour....of course there was a bit of colour tweaking to do in terms of overall warmth of the photo...


I'm preettttyy pleased with myself I have to say =D

Reduced to Nothing

Smart old me lost her SLR camera charger hence, photos here are from mobile. Spring is finally here and I have discovered a beautiful spot by the cathedral...

As you will see, colours are horrible and pictures have very poor detailing (lotsa noise and what not) But am gonna try and use that to my advantage

So maybe you will not get any dynamic, abstract shots for awhile but you'll definitely get some slightly retro-looking ones. Noise is a great passage way for monotones be it sepia or just B&W..All these are coloured though...

Pictorial Decapitation

I'll explain later