PhotoFriday :: Wet

Cyclamens left in the rain (given the HDR treatment)

For PhotoFriday‘s topic Wet

PhotoFriday :: Into the Abyss

into the abyss

not the film, more into a deep reflective dream

For PhotoFriday‘s topic Moody

PhotoFriday :: Flowering

For PhotoFriday‘s topic Flowering

Yet another sunset

PhotoProject :: Colour My Day

Over the past week I have been trying to take a coloured themed photo each day, and it was harder than it might seem. Yet colour is everywhere, pretty much anywhere with light starts to deliver a spectrum of wavelength that we see are colours. The photographic challenge here was to see those situations where one colour dominated.

Purple Haze, or not so blue moon.

Looking back through some of last month photos, I was puzzled by the purple haze in my photos. i was experimenting with ISO and Aperture in manual mode trying to “just” get crisp detail in the shadows on the moon but leave the sky black. At the time I hadn’t notice the strong colour cast (it was after all dark at the time). My only thought it is a bad decision by the camera on white balance, which I normally leave set to auto (for not particular reason). Luckily there are lots of tools to fix white balance in retrospect and the one-click fix for colour in picasa fine tuning tab did the trick nicely.

Hello from DaisyWorld

The warmer spring weather has bought out a fresh flush of blooms in my own little DaisyWorld (the more famous daisy world is a nice mathematical model created by James Lovelock to describe his Gaia Hypothesis . If you want a quick overview of the model try this flash animation.

QED: As in the mathematical model in the colder periods, the darker (coloured daisy) predominate this first flowering (only the daisy bushes that are flowering are shown)

twilight

 

Colour Your World

Hidden away, down of the right hand side of the Picasa menu, are some experimental tools. The are all worth checking out, but one I have had some good fun with is the search for .. Colours.

Enjoying the warmth

 

Into the Dusk

 

A flock of black cockatoos, head into the sunset

HDR sunset

HDR sunset, originally uploaded by imageo.

This is all about colour & composition, the patterns of the silhouetted branches and intense colour on the clouds behind. HDRi image created with Dynamic Photo, using smooth compressor tone mapping.

my beach

 

For PhotoFriday topic the beach

More purple

PhotoFriday :: Purple

for PhotoFriday's topic purple

A bee out enjoying the spring sunshine and the lavender blossom

red sky at night