14

Sep

The Passage

Another composite picture, although in this case, both the photos used were taken within the past week. Despite the appearance of this tunnel from this photo, the ceiling is actually only about 1.5 m high. I had to shoot this from a position kneeling on the floor. These tunnels are about 300 years old, and were originally used as dungeons. Luckily, there are some lights around now, so you can see where you are going, and more importantly, so you have light to take pictures by.

When you are trying to put a person into a picture digitally, the biggest challenge is anchoring the person to the floor. Here, I created a shadow by duplicating the person layer then using transform in Photoshop and Gaussian blur, but I’m still not hugely convinced by it. If anyone has any further suggestions for anchoring digital people through shadows, I’d love to hear them!

A man walks alone down a tunnel

by Tim Daniels - lapseoftheshutter.com

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08

Jun

Manor II

Another of the rather old, magnificient houses aroud where I live. In this case, it was clear from the facade that the house was fairly old, so I felt it needed processing to emphasise this. Quite simply, I just added one texture layer, then performed some curves/levels adjustments to the house and foreground, as well as adding the birds into the scene. As it wasn’t a particularly impressive day in terms of light, the ‘strength’ of this processing hasn’t negatively affected the image in the same way it might had I shot this at a more traditional time for photography – early morning or late evening.

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07

Jun

Graveyard

A graveyard at sunset. For this shot, I processed the image with the Indian Summer filter from Nik software’s Color Efex Pro. This filter turns greens to various shades of red/orange, which can be quite effective if you wish to show grass or tree leaves in a drought-like state. Generally, I use it on graveyard photos as that sense of dead grass works well in this kind of setting.

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06

Jun

Futuristic Church

A church with a bit of a sci-fi sky. It took a while to actually get the sky on this one right. It is actually a combination of two separate sky layers that then have had textures applied over the top. I wanted something quite futuristic to contrast with the many hundreds of years old building towering into the sky and I think the result works quite well.

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03

Jun

The Underpass

The underside of a motorway at night. I really liked the sense of perspective you get from standing under these kind of concrete structures, seeing the same units repeated again and again off into the distance. I decided to shoot this one at night to get the angled light coming off the streetlights and converted to a toned black and white to show off the textures of the concrete.

With hindsight, it might have been better to shoot in the daylight so that the shutter speed was slow enough to capture some cars moving across the scene, but then the lighting would not have worked as well. As always, you have to make compromises.

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19

May

The Lone Walk

Something a bit different from my usual photos here. I wanted to try something with the processing that would turn a pretty standard photo into a more atmospheric, emotive shot. This is a split toned black & white conversion, that is also cropped from a landscape perspective. The point the lens is focussed on is actually slightly out of frame because of the crop, but I think the de-focussed effect only adds to the image.

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