The Home That Never Was

Trying to capture a moment to make something feel real when it isn't. When I go to museums I try that but very rarely succeed. Going through the Falkland Museum I came across this display of a small house from days past. When I took the photo I felt I was able to isolate the elements nicely. I thought it was pretty good but I wasn't sure if I wanted to do anything with it. I recently got Lightroom 3 and found on that a "preset" called "Aged Photo". I think it suited this photo almost as if it was made for it. 

 This was shot with my 50mm 1/4sec f6.3 iso 100.

The Crow

Crows are birds that draw on peoples emotions. You either like them or you don't. I like them. When I hear them cawing it makes me think of waking up on a nice sunny summer morning (or afternoon) and it's one of the first sounds I hear. Brings back a lot of fond memories. This one was having a bath. I took a lot of shots of it splashing about but this one where it stopped to contemplate me for a second was my favourite.

I used the 16-80 at 80mm  1/60th sec f4.5 iso 400

Motion In The Stillness

While driving about in Stanley Park with Dar I happened to look to my right and see this. 

 I used the 16-80 at 70mm 1/160th sec f16 iso 400

A statue of Harry Jerome.  We parked and walked back to get a few photos. I already had the photo in my head from that quick look and this was it. 

It was pretty good in colour but there was something about the background didn't quite sit right with me. I thought I would try it in black and white and the background looked much better (imho of course) but the statue got lost a bit. I brought the colour back to the statue and the sun on the bronze gave it warmth. 

Urban Photographer

When Dar and I go out for photo walks there is usually a photo or two taken of each other. I started working on this photo and soon decided it should be black and white. I used the conversion tool in Photo Shop Elements which has several different styles. The one I settled on was called "Urban/Snapshots". The "Urban" fit I thought especially after I converted it. 

 I used the 16-80 at 80mm 1/250th sec at f4.5 iso 100