For the upcoming two week challenge I have chosen “Colour” as the subject. With blossoms everywhere and spring flowers beginning to bloom there should be lots of opportunity. The submissions don’t have to be limited to in-camera compositions. I encourage you to use your creativity through Post Processing by enhancing colour or use double or multiple exposure techniques. Here are links to two photographers that have an eye of colour. Pete Turner and his disciple and former employee Eric Meola
I thought this composition had lots of colour contrast. I like the gobular bush against the straight lines of the hedge. The hedge separates the big spruce tree branches from the uniform grassy area. Processed in photoshop camera raw for colour contrast and selective colour modification on the hedge.
Here is the original which I found too messy with the curb and the street pavement.
Flower season in the local parks. Picture taken May 19.
1/125 sec @f11, ISO 200
Edited in Lightroom.
35mm lens on Canon R5
hibiscus floating ISO 200 105mm f4.8 1/1000
Beautiful colour. love the contrast with the light green duckweed. Great dept of field control.
a composite from a photo of hibiscus and an ICM
original photo of hibiscus ISO 200 105mm 14.0 1/1000
the composite
Creepy demonic baby
Amazingly creepy expression. Is it the angle and the lighting?
I think it is the mostly white eyes…
Another hibiscus shot
Found this along the tiger lily trail yesterday. Enhanced in Photoshop Camera Raw and used Levels tool to give it a bit more punch.
I was trying to enhance the colour of the picture and keep the idea of motion. This is from four consecutive shots in burst mode of the swing ride at Heritage Park, overlaid on top of each other in Photoshop.
1/6400 sec @ F10, ISO 3200
Combined in Photoshop using overlay blend, edited in Lightroom.
35mm lens on Canon R5
Very nice and creative
Cuts and Coffee, downtown barber. I pushed the saturation and some other sliders in Apple Photos to increase the intensity of the colours.
ISO 400, 40 mm, F/5.6, 1/400 s
Last Friday at the Ink Pots
Taken with my cell phone and increased saturation a bit.
Tulip taken in morning light at Reader Rock Garden. With the morning sun at around 10 am there are many opportunities in this garden to snap selectively lit flowers. I used the levels tool to enhance the reds by moving the center slider dramatically to the right.
A little less extreme
Yellows and greens in the Sandy McNabb area today
Taken with my cell phone
I joined Henri at the Reader Gardens and captured a few flower images on a beautiful morning,
Fuji XT-5 on tripod with a 70’300mm lens (I grabbed this lens thinking it was 80mm macro, so had to make do).
F13/ ISO 125/ SS@ 1/125
Next image with a different lens a 16mm wide angle F1.4.
XT-5 on tripod. F16/ ISO 400/ SS@1/135
I was in Haliburton Ontario visiting my brother. We were walking through the Haliburton Sculpture Forest and came across two people sitting on a dock.
Enhanced the colour of the people in Photoshop Elements.
Another photo from the Haliburton Sculpture Forest.
My front yard tulips in the sun
ISO 800, 44 mm, f/10, 1/2000 s
out as much as I can, and the colour is green, both are macro pictures
No. 1 is young mint leaves
No. 2 is a scrub oak blooming, I think.
Went to the orchid show this past weekend.
Taken with my iphone
At the orchid show
Taken with my iphone
Bowl of succulents – Canon EOS 6D – 1/40 sec. @ f/7.1, ISO 400, 100mm.
Shot at Saskatoon Berry Farm last week. F/7.1; 1/80 sec; ISO 400
Shot this morning. Should have a deeper DOF therefore would necessitate a longer exposure (needing a tripod) but I am running out of time. I may try it again sometime as the light source rotates through multiple colours so curious to see what effect it would have at slow shutter speed
F/7.1; 1/80 sec; ISO 400
This is what the set-up looks like