Another old gallery reloaded into WordPress.
Exposure is a great PhotoShop plugin that creates a black and white image that has a similar feel to a load of old film makes. To get good B&W photos you need to do more than just desaturate the image. You need to adjust colour and contrast before the conversion. Exposure 2 does a lot of that for you. A few of these were further altered with PhotoShop brushes to give them cracks and scratches.
I’m moving away from my old galleries and just going to use WordPress from now on. I really like Zenphoto and will keep the old galleries there for an archive. But WordPress Galleries are nicer to look at and people don’t seem to need to have an easy way to refer back to old galleries. So, as a start, here’s my favourite photos in a WordPress tiled gallery.
A gallery of my Star Trek Images. All models created in Wings3D and rendered in Carrara and Photoshop.
Here’s a lesson which I learnt a while ago in anticipation for aliens landing. Always have a camera at arms reach and ready to go. 12 photos in about 20 seconds, I leave my camera on rapid fire, and they were gone.
This cute couple arrived, sat on the arm of the chair for a few seconds, of which I got three almost in focus shots. Another thing to remember is to leave your camera on the correct settings, or at least settings which allow a bit of give when it comes to exposure and focus, which I hadn’t, and with a multipurpose lens (like a zoom), which I had.
Even a simple thing like taken the camera down from ISO1600 to something better suited for bright sunlight is a chore when you’re shooting like this. Hence I tried to get down to 200 and failed to hit the correct button and so all these were grainy. But lightroom is pretty good at smoothing things out. Anyway….
They then jumped up onto the table for a few seconds…
Then they jumped back to the arm of the chair for a few more seconds….
and then they were gone. Thanks for visiting, please come back.
Guest houses are booked.
Flights are booked!
And what’s more, we saved up in advance and paid cash!
No going back now. Come September we pack our bags and off we pop for 23 days! Yup, 23 days!!! Thanks to Matt and Madhavi for letting me leave the store for such a long time. I’ll bring them back some Jammie Dodgers and Monster Munch.
I’m going to blog while we’re out there. Photos and thoughts. As well as Facebook and instagram. I hope you’ll all keep up with our journey.