31st December: The End

This pressure of the final day . . . . Busy at home, but decided to go for a drive and make a last effort for my last shot. Ended up walking a long way too, with no spark of inspiration. At my last stop before going home I ended up walking amongst a large number of dinghies tied up, this was the very last one and the words just seemed right, well to me anyway. Plus it's a boat and I seem to like photographing them (since moving the family down to the coast, I guess it's understandable)

Final thanks to Kirstie my wife, for allowing me the time each day to take my shots and process them.

Tags:   365 Boat Itchenor

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30th December: I can see the light . . . .

Almost there now, one more shot to go. Weather has been awful today, so this is a shot of the stained glass window on our landing, wanted to take a shot of it, since moving in for my 365, so just got in there ;-)

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29th December: Little Angel

Something about the eyes of this little angel, a kind of haunting sadness. Took this shot in Chichester Cathedral with the old Canon 350D and nifty fifty.

Thanks for all the super comments on yesterday's shot, you lot are a great bunch :-)

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28th December: East Beach Cafe

Not your average cafe this, described by the Guardian as one of the top 5 beach cafes in the world. East Beach Cafe was completed in June 2007 and has since won more than 20 national and international awards for design, architecture, steelwork, craftsmanship and engineering.

On paper this building was made to be photographed, but I have to say I found it hard to get 'the' shot. I knew before arriving I was going to go for an abstract type shot of the sky and curves and took many shots of that type. But when reviewing the shots at home, I preferred this of a couple (who's daughter had just run inside), as it connects the abstract building to the real world. I also intended to have a colour shot, as the building is a fantastic rust colour, but again I was surprised that I preferred this mono conversion in Silver Efex Pro (used more control points in Silver Efex than ever before, to bring out the detail on the metalwork).

Had a cracking burger inside too ;-)

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27th December: Ship Wrecked

Decided to stop off at Dell Quay and grab a shot of this old wreck on my way to stocking up on groceries. Really pleased how it turned out, the light was all over the place today, plus the strong gusts of wind even wobbled the camera on the tripod.

Merged 3 separate exposures in Photomatix to create HDR image, then in Photoshop minor levels, curves tweaks. Noiseware pro filter used to reduce the digital noise introduced by the work in Photomatix. Used Color Efex Pro and Bleach Bypass filter to bring out the fantastic detail in the ship. The key to making it better still is the use of control points to increase and decrease the effect. For example I didn't what the foreground weed and stones to have the bleach bypass effect applied, as it was just too much. So all along the bottom of the image I applied negative control points. I really feel like I'm getting to grips with Color Efex and Silver Efex pro lately. Finally applied a little high pass filter to regain the crispness lost by the noiseware filter.

Tags:   dec27hdr 365 Boat Wreck HDR Dell Quay

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