Shot last week when the weather was a bit better, this billboard is in Aldgate, London. I guess it’s no coincidence that it was placed right below a flight path — you can just see the plane top left of the poster.
Canon 500N, 1/1000sec, f/5.6, ISO 200, focal length 50mm
Click on the thumbnails below for different versions of the same billboard (but without the plane)…
The Southend Airshow has been held every Spring Bank Holiday weekend for 22 years now. Sometimes the weather is glorious, sometimes cloudy, but this year’s was probably the worst ever. It rained almost continually for the whole two days, but still didn’t stop this family of four from enjoying the show. This is the only shot I took this year.
Canon 400D, 1/100sec, f/7.1, ISO 400, focal length 44mm, cropped at sides
As seen through a crack in the footbridge over a railway, New Forest.
Canon 500N (film), ISO 200, cropped at right
This shot is from Brockenhurst in the New Forest.
Canon 500N (film), 1/90sec, ISO 400, focal length 50mm
This is on the beach at Alum Bay, Isle of Wight. It’s there to stop people climbing on the dangerous cliffs that give the area its famous coloured sand. The original shot was a little flat so I have bumped up the colours a bit in Photoshop.
Canon 500N, ISO 200
There was me hoping to get some nice shots of the Needles on a day trip to the Isle of Wight… unfortunately visibility that day was very poor so I had to find something else to photograph. This is the ‘Talking Telescope’ viewpoint at Alum Bay — on a nice day you can get a good view of the Needles from it.
Canon 500N, ISO 200
A sky/tree shot from the New Forest last week. Taken near Ashurst.
Canon 500N (film), ISO 200
This is a self portrait taken in the New Forest, near Brockenhurst.
Canon 500N (film), 1/20sec, f/5.6, ISO 400, tripod, self timer
Essential footwear for walking in the New Forest (apparently).
Canon 500N (film), ISO 400
More trees from last week in the New Forest. If I had a ND grad filter I guess I could have made it darker across the top.
Canon 500N (film), ISO 400
These markings were spray-painted onto a felled tree in the New Forest. There were several others alongside it so I guess it means they are diseased trees marked out by the Forestry Commission?
Canon 500N (film), ISO 400, focal length 50mm
All this week I will posting my shots from the New Forest last week. All are shot on film due to the problem with my digital camera.
In this first shot, look carefully at the bottom of the frame and you can see the lone figure walking in the forest. This was shot near Ashurst.
Canon 500N (film), ISO 400
And this is the final, and my favourite, of the three picture style experiments. I particularly love the colours in the brickwork. High contrast and high saturation set on the camera’s user-defined picture function.
Canon 400D, 1/100sec, f/8, ISO 100, focal length 47mm
And now, a couple more examples of my experiment with the user-defined picture style (see yesterday’s post for details). The colours are much stronger than they would have been on the standard setting, and I really like the light across the door.
Canon 400D, 1/125sec, f/7.1, ISO 200, focal length 41mm
A friend of mine (thanks, Chris) suggested experimenting with the 400D’s picture style menu. So I tried increasing the contrast and saturation in one of the user-defined picture styles and am quite pleased with the results. I’ll certainly be using it in the future as I prefer the brighter colours.
Canon 400D, 1/160sec, f/9, ISO 100, focal length 70mm
Click on the image below for a comparison of two versions, Canon’s standard default on the right and my user-defined style on the left.
The second of my graveside shots.
Some more colourful shots tomorrow, I promise…
Canon 400D, 1/80sec, f/5.6, ISO 400, focal length 70mm
Next up, a couple of slightly morbid ones I’m afraid; both from the graveyard pictured in yesterday’s post. This is an extreme close up of detail on one of the gravestones; I like the depth of field on it.
Canon 400D, 1/160sec, f/9, ISO 1600, focal length 70mm
I pass this church on my train commute to work every day, and I thought it would be a good place to take some shots. It’s St Margaret’s of Antioch in Bowers Gifford, Essex, and was taken near dusk a couple of Sundays ago.
Canon 400D, 1/160sec, f/8, ISO 200, focal length 24mm, cropped at left
Well I am now back from my little break in the New Forest; the bad news is that on the second day of my holiday my 400D decided to die on me. But the good news is that I had my trusty old film camera with me as backup, so was at least able to take a few shots. The main drawback was that I had to be a lot more selective with my shots as getting them processed and printed is very expensive these days; and obviously I couldn’t check images as I went along. On the plus side I do think film gives better colour than digital.
Anyway, this week I am going to post some images I took the week before my trip. That will give me time to sort my New Forest pictures and I’ll post them next week.
In the meantime, Canon please hurry up and fix my 400D!
This is the last of my New Zealand series for now. It shows one of the cars of the Skyline Gondola on its way up the hill overlooking Queenstown. In the background you can see people speeding back down The Luge in go-karts. I waited ages to get the gondola and go-karts in the right position, and although this shot would have been better if I had got it a split second earlier, it’s the best of several shots. I was using a film camera so couldn’t check it at the time.
Canon 500N (film)
This shot shows Lake Wakatipu from Queenstown, New Zealand. I had thought that the mountains in the background were the Remarkables, but looking at a map I now think that they are the Eyre Mountains. Let me know if you can identify them!
Canon 500N (film)
This image shows a brave (or stupid) member of the public preparing to jump 192 metres off of the Sky Tower in Auckland.
Canon 500N (film)
Another one of the Star Princess cruise ship in Auckland bay.
Canon 500N (film)
This is the view from the Sky Deck at the Skycity Sky Tower in Auckland, looking out over the bay where the luxury cruise liner Star Princess is passing by.
Canon 500N (film)
After our helicopter had landed near the top of the Mount Cook range, I took this shot of another helicopter passing overhead. It’s a little harder to spot with the image reproduced at this small size, though.
Canon 500N (film)
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