The assignment for week 21 is ‘Loved Ones’. Here’s Caroline in The Dome, a swanky cocktail bar in Edinburgh.
I had to play with the light balance, as the original raw file was very orange.
Loved Ones – week 21
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forks – week 20
I was away from home and my pc. This photograph was taken using my camera, and processed on my mobile phone using Snapseed.
mirrored montage – week 19
For this week’s challenge, I decided to try something with some coloured pencils. I spent some time arranging the pencils at a 45 degree angle so that the mirroring would produce squares. After the mirroring, I decided on a letterbox crop and rotated the image slightly. Then tweaks to exposure, colours, saturation etc.
Red – week 18
The subject of this week’s challenge is “Red”. Essentially I have enhanced the red in this image.
Dreamscape – week 17
This week’s challenge is to great a ‘dreamscape’ image. This involves taking the same photograph, superimposing one copy over another and blurring the base layer, then adjusting colours and other things.
I took this photograph in St Barnabas churchyard at 7am today.
Selective colour – week 15
The challenge this week is “selective colour” – converting a photograph to black and white, but making one colour stand out.
We have a small display case of butterflies collected in the Amazon in the 1930s. This poor chap looks very muted, but I have made the blues and greens really pop.
Street Photography – week 14
The challenge for this week is Street Photography.
This morning I sat on a bench at the end of the High Street in Bishop’s Waltham with my camera in my lap, using the flip out screen. I was not looking at the camera, but pressed the shutter button when the ‘target’ was lined up with the number plate of the car on the left. Although the second lady is looking at the camera, I don’t think she registered that I took the picture.
Shutter Zoom (week 11)
This week’s assignment took me right out of my comfort zone. It is to use the zoom while taking the photograph.
I have never done anything like this. I spent most of the week thinking about it and avoiding the task. Then I finally got around to it, and took hundreds of images. I like this one best. It is marbles on a lightbox, with lots of Lightroom tweaks. I did use a tripod, but you can see that there is still a little shake in the zoom.
High Key Black and White (week 10)
This week’s challenge has been to take a high key overexposed black and white photograph. Here in the south of England we get snow rarely – some years not at all. So when I woke up earlier this week to find we had a light snowfall overnight, I knew that I had to get out and take my photograph for this week’s challenge. These are some white crocuses in our back garden.
photography by Gabor Kovacs 