Can I say ‘win!’? Yeah, I can. I’m ordinarily humble about my photographs. I see them in terms of their flaws; softness, blown highlights, uneven horizon, blur and underexposure are what leap out of me when I review them. Recently I have been working on the ‘exposure’ part of matters by trying to nail down correct exposures in difficult situations, such as catching the sunset through a grove of trees.
In this instance I’m happy to say that I believe I’ve nailed it.
(dot dot dot)
These aren’t part of my 365 days of photos, but are instead a bunch of related photos I want to toss out: Dark and foggy. Lovely.
This photo is technically terrible. The stitching is lazy and parts of it are either blurry or outright out of focus. But I don’t care: This photo does its job as both an exposure control test (balancing highlights and shadow) and an experiment in handling perspective correction – in Photoshop – by hand.
As a bonus the image is generally purthy.
Day #9: Hope. Taken on January 9, 2010.
A little less back-to-Earth for today. I feel like all of my recent photos have been too dark – either a metaphorical dark in the sense that I put emphasis on the sheer starkness of a scene (see day 8), or a literal darkness in that I go out and take photos in the middle of the night. This really flies in the face of the big shot in the arm full of hope that I’ve received coming into the new year, so I’m going to indulge myself with a (marginally) more colourful photo of the season’s chill.
Day #8: Frozen grass and leaves at the People’s Park, Galway, Ireland. Taken on December 24, 2009.
I did not forget about yesterday’s post. Well, okay, I did kinda. I slept early and didn’t wake up until almost midnight. About all I could do at that point was to slap up the image on bhalash.com and call it a technical completion. I didn’t skip the day, at any rate. Technically.
Day #1: Foggy dawn at the People’s Park, Headford Road, Galway Ciry. Taken on December 24, 2009.
Two months of waiting for the perfect foggy weather paid off on December 24 when I captured these shots of an amazingly cold Galway morning on the Headford Road. In processing the images, I amm torn between two different styles: A harder and colder interpretation or a warmer and far softer view of the foggy forest.
Today demanded contrast. Minight-dark blacks. Sun-bright, blown-out highlights that will leave your eyes watering. To hell with December cheer!
