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The E65 Movement

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