This morning dawned bright and clear with brilliant sunshine, blue skies, a few hazy clouds and a gentle breeze. I SOOOO want to be out with my camera, exploring, experimenting and enjoying myself …
… instead I’m stuck indoors at the computer, ‘on duty’ in our Gallery until at least lunchtime while The Artist is out painting. Even then there’s no guarantee that I’ll be able to get out this afternoon because he may well want to go out painting again after lunch…
I don’t think the Gallery is going too be busy in any sense of the word – the weather and the coming & going nature of holiday Saturdays will see to that. So I shall just have to knuckle down and get on with those tutorials that I’ve now completed downloading from the T189 website in .avi format to replace the Flash ones that didn’t work properly.
These are some of the results of the ‘ageing an image’ tutorial using Elements:
I spotted these arum lilies on sale, displayed in a bucket of water, at the gate of a farm, during a recent walk. I thought they would make a good subject for an aged sepia image.
This is the circular granite Coastguard Tower standing atop Telegraph Hill, the highest point of St. Marys at a shade under 170ft, in the company of the Decca navigation mast and various radio dishes and antennae for transmitting telephone calls and TV signals (yes, we’re still firmly analogue here – and NO cable!) . It probably DID look like this a hundred years ago!
This was taken on an unexpected sea journey back to the mainland after the May half term week with my daughter because fog had grounded the helicopters. Scillonian III came into service in May 1977 so she definitely wasn’t around a hundred years ago!
This is a typical scene on Scilly – a punt drawn up above high tideline and turned over to prevent it filling with rainwater. I liked the diagonal composition with the lobster pot on one side but I couldn’t quite get the angle I wanted. This one is a candidate for the ‘blurring the background’ tutorial in Elements, I think.
Now back to Elements and the tutorials …
Beautiful images Aquamarina. You’re definitely reaping the rewards of practicing the skills from T189! I particularly like the arum lillies – very romantic. I imagine a fiance might have sent this kind of picture to her love who was fighting in the first world war. For some reason lillies always make me think of longing.
Comment by Gingerjo — June 23, 2007 @ 6:12 pm |
Thanks Jo
Finding suitable images for the ’sepia’ treatment was quite interesting – some, like the arum lilies, were almost an obvious choice but others would have looked dreadful. T189 is quite a challenge, isn’t it?
Comment by aquamarina — June 23, 2007 @ 7:56 pm |
Wotcha.. Great images you have from the this blog. Sorry if this is a brief email. Just filing stuff at the press tent in glasto while it its chucking it with rain and all sorts. Thanks for the add. Will return the pleasure in kind. Keep snapping!!
ak
Comment by aworan — June 24, 2007 @ 8:48 am |
Excellent shots, you’ve really captured something about Scilly.
Ironically enough, I am recovering at home on St MArys having just returned from the mainland on the Scillonion III. It was a horrible crossing, I and the three girls were all ill. The ironic thing though is that I actually work for the helicopter Co. on St Marys (I may have helped or hindered you and your daughter when you were stuck) We had a technical today which meant that employees and children drop to the back of the queue………So, as you well know “It happens to the best of us”.
Hope all is well and all the best with future photography……
Merryn.
Comment by Merryn — June 25, 2007 @ 2:24 pm |
I like the tower picture, quite a simple but effective shot. I enjoy getting a peek at what the OU course is like via your posts too.
Comment by Johnson Cameraface — June 30, 2007 @ 9:31 pm |
Hello Merryn (might see you at the heliport on Saturday evening…) and glad you enjoyed my images. Sorry to hear about your bad trip on the Scillonian though :-X Actually it was Dave who organised our transfer from Helicopter to boat. I’m really enjoying T189, it’s a great course.
Thanks JC
I’m fortunate enough to live in a place where there are lots of interesting images to be found. Glad you’re enjoying my insight into T189 – it really is a fantastic course.
Comment by aquamarina — July 2, 2007 @ 8:58 pm |