Well not much to write home about this week, here are a couple of photographs I took this week. The moon was quite large and looming over auckland, so I snapped this shot. The other is of a daisy I took.

Oh… I won a trademe auction a few minutes ago. It was a super duper deal, but it was a nice package for an older nikon camera, and some darkroom dodads, books and stuff. I am currently in the market for a med. format enlarger as well. no luck there yet!

This is my attempt at digital infrared simulation. Its a big overdone, but its just done for effect. I am not crazy about it but here it is:

Today was an excellent day. I found 2 new places to photograph – Northcote Point (see post below) and Karaka Bay.

Karaka Bay – now that was a surprise for me. I spent 1 year in Glendowie, and its only a 5 minute from where i lived then but I never stumbled across it. Grrr. But hey, it was a cool discovery. I’ll probably yap more about this area later.

I decide in the afternoon to go exclusively with my new 85mm lens. This is lens is quite challenging for me – especially after shooting 15mm-30mm wide angle lens. I was used to capturing the entire scene on the lens, now only a tiny segment gets captured! And since there is no zoom, I have to move to the correct position, instead of twisting the lens to do it! The Depth of Field is much greather with the prime lens as well, and I am learning how to throw objects out focus whilst keeping the subject sharp as possible.

Here are today’s B&W results, a mixture of Northcote Point and Karaka Bay:

The Auckland Harbour bridge that is! Alofa Magele, an Auckland living in Brisbane, deserves much credit for these shots as he emailed me the location last week. It was a bit too chilly to stay too long here, my hands were too numb to turn the dials and such.

This is my ‘mist simulation’ shot. I huffed some of my stale morning breath on the lens to give it a soft misty effect:

This shot colours came all out of whack, this was a 30 sec time exposure. I brightened it in photoshop and increase the contrast slightly:

Here is my feeble to get you, the random blog surfer who unwittedly clicked next blog, to critique some photography.

3 of the same images, with different settings:

colour

desaturated (black & white)

desaturated and warmed (sepia)

So which do you prefer, if any? And why do you prefer it?