Capital city architecture

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architecture, art, black and white, blogging101, Canada, daily, photo101, photoaday, Photography, Places

Parliament Buildings

I looked at my email on Blogging 101, then headed off to check what theme was on the daily post (well it was Places when I checked at 8am GMT this morning!
), I then headed over to my email for Photo 101 and when I saw that it was on architecture, I had a little jump for joy, as I knew I could do a post to incorporate all three 🙂 All these photos were taken whilst my family was on holiday in Canada last year visiting my relatives.

Parliament Buildings (original)

The brief for Photo 101 was “”Study architectural forms, and also train your eye to look for shots that will translate well in black and white.”

I have taken quite a few photos of architecture since I started shooting in digital, it is not the genre that I feel most comfortable with, mainly I think due to lack of practice, but that does not stop me taking photos 🙂

Reflections of old

Reflections of old (original)

What is your preference, do you prefer these in black and white or colour, do my conversions work? (all of these were processed in Lightroom). I would LOVE to know what you think.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church (original)

I have a few sites that I bookmarked as of interest on architectural photography, so thought I would share three of them here as I know it is something I would like to practice. After all there is architecture all around us and the UK has some very old examples as well as new for me to practice on:

• Photoblur – I loved the abstract nature of the photographs here and the 10 tips are very good.
• Exposure Guide – some good tips on architecture as well as other genres
• Light Stalking – a nice article with some good points

The power of connecting

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Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. – William Plomer

Sibling connection

Day six on Photography 101 and we were asked to share a photo using our own interpretation of  the word connect and then look at how we tag the post, being used to social media on Flickr and Instagram I have been tagging my photos for years so this I did not find too much of a challenge.

Well connect can mean a lot of things, so the option for photographic subjects was very wide today. The dictionary definitions I found were:

• to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind
• to establish communication between; put in communication
• to have as an accompanying or associated feature
• to cause to be associated, as in a personal or business relationship
• to associate mentally or emotionally
• to link to an electrical or communications system; hook up
• to become connected; join or unite
• (of trains, buses, etc.) to run so as to make connections
• to have or establish successful communication; make contact
• to relate to or be in harmony with another person, one’s work, etc.
• (of an addict or drug dealer) to make direct contact for the illegal sale or purchase of narcotics
• to hit successfully or solidly ie a ball in sport
• of or relating to a connection or connections

Connection point

Connecting with a friend

The Sail bridge – connecting either side of a river

Well day six on Blogging 101 asked us to look at our own about pages, which I did. Being quite introverted, I am not very good at talking about myself, so found doing this quite difficult. It took me ages just to write my first post on here back in January, as I kept writing things down and then wondering to myself, do I really want to share this much with everyone, after all I am a very private family orientated person.

Do my amendments make it more enticing, I am not sure, but at least I have looked at it and amended it, I guess that was the aim of todays task! What do you think?

Macro Monday – the everyday edition

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art, black and white, fine art, kitchen, macro, Photography, Postaday

Even items around the house can look good when seen through a macro lens.

The art of visualisation

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art, black and white, blogging101, fine art, journal, learning, Photography, Postaday, reflection

Going down

Photography is a creative medium. One fundamental that’s not often talked about is the “Art of Visualization”… A concept that originated from one of my favourite photographers the well-known landscape photographer Ansel Adams.

Ansel Adams is well known for his use of visualisation.  He would look at a scene and then visualise  in “his minds eye” the image before making the photograph.  This process can be harder than it seems. To do do this with a scene you need to be in-tune with your inner emotions and how you feel about a scene.  Then you need to know how to manipulate your camera to show your emotional response of the scene in the image on your film or sensor.  Once that is done the next step is to bring that out in your image in post processing.

I am far from being a great photographer, I am just a hobbyist, who enjoys the art and creativity that photography allows me. I do know though that all my favourite images and the ones that get the most positive responses from others have been ones that I have visualised prior to taking and now I do try to do this with most of my shots, although some days especially when I feel I have to take a shot for my 365, I know I slack and it definitely shows!

I found this video on youtube of Ansel Adams talking briefly about the subject.

So next time your out and about with your camera, before you press the shutter, visualise the photo, you might just be surprised with the results.

Solitude

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Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. – Albert Einstein

My Teddy and I

Today’s theme on Photography101 is solitude. We were asked to also consider the placement of the subject in our shot. How can we interpret the state of being alone, or a lonely and uninhabited place? I often as I mentioned previously use the “rule of thirds” and have the grid set on my camera when I take the photo, not that I always stick to it though!

Solitude

This image of the lone barren tree just did not feel right to me unless it was central, after all rules are meant to be bent and broken, especially since each image is different!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds

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Taken in response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Rule of Thirds.”

The Rule of Thirds is a photography concept that puts the subject of the photograph off-center, which usually results in blank space in the rest of the image.

A garlic trio