Category Archives: Photography
11.Aug.06 - 13.Aug.06
Filed under Everything Else, Photography
This weekend I went home to Abergavenny for the last time. As I type this the house is no longer ours and my home is now Cardiff, and just Cardiff. This weekend wasn’t all sad though. Here are some things that caught my eye and some of my thoughts:
(Clockwise)
A beautiful white rose growing in my garden;
A hand-made road sign with ‘GOOSE’ written on it;
A one-eyed ginger cat sitting on a freshly made hay bale;
An old abandoned church that scared me;
Parking my car at home and wondering if I’ll ever live in another place where the view out of my rear-view mirror will be like this;
Jasmine, my cat;
The post box opposite my (old) house;
A little girl dragging her dog around the village fête’s dog show and thinking how it looked like a moving carpet;
Seeing some flowers in a traffic cone at a skip and realising that beauty can be where you least expect.
On my mind…
Filed under Photography
There are two things I’ve been thinking about today.
One is about EarShock - one of my ongoing projects - and the other is about how much I’m looking forward to using my camera again. Especially shooting in the RAW format.
EarShock.com has just had a bit of a face-lift. I’ve used the Joomla Open-Source Content Management System to organise the information, created a new logo and added a few reviews that I pilfered (yet referenced) from Amazon and other sites just to temporarily bulk up the website. Take a look and let me know what you think.
Regarding photography, I’ve decided that shooting photos in RAW is great. Really great. A RAW image on my camera is a lot bigger than a normal capture - approx 9Mb per photo. This is because a RAW photo is the digital equivalent of an undeveloped negative when shooting with a film camera. Nothing is applied to the photographs such as white-balance, colour filters, contrast and even saturation. You get the raw image and you edit it, as you please, on your computer.
Another great advantage is that instead of dealing with the usual 256 colour layers as in a normal photograph, RAW has 65,536 - allowing you great flexibility when editing the picture to emphasize or dull-down parts of the photo as required. I’m getting a RAW-fetish and I don’t even fully understand the medium yet!
Last week I saw one of the most beautiful skies of my life and decided to take a photograph. Below are two shots that came out well, edited slightly, but differently, in RAW. You can click on them to see a slightly bigger version.
