This image of “The Storm” was posted here before but this one is different. I have made several different versions because I’ve never got one that I really like before. I’m known for re-editing images as tech advances but in this case, I just never got it right before. I like realistic looking images and this one is very easy to edit too aggressively. I sat down the other day and actually decided that the sky needed to be pulled back considerabky to bring it to the point of looking “real”. I see that a lot, I think many people tend to over process skies, trying to bring out more mood. Darkness is often exaggerated, as is sunset colours. I second guess myself a lot as I don’t want to fall into that category but I know I do from time to time. This will hopefully be the final version of “The Storm”, it looks more accurate to the way I saw it now and I am liking it. Hope you do too.
Photo of the Week #201
This photo was made awhile back, 8 years ago in fact. I’ve always loved this image because it depicts a slice of maritime history. This old shack resided beside the road leading from Tantallon to Peggy’s Cove, can’t remember what that road is called, been awhile. This wonderful piece of fishing heritage is now gone, if you didn’t know where it once stood, you would never know it ever existed.
This is another of my re-edits using some more modern technologies for editing that I now have available to me. Lightroom has come a long way in that time! The new masking tools in Lightroom are a life changer for me, love the versatility we have now.
Photo of the Week # 184
I’m not a religious person but for some reason I find myself drawn to the architecture of old churches. They are unique buildings and they are no longer made like they used to be. Modern churches just don’t have the character they used to have. Many rural places in Canada have great churches to photograph. The Canadian Maritimes have many and from time to time when I have found one in good conditions, I sometimes photograph them.
Tracadie, Nova Scotia
Photo of the Week #151
This photo of the Queensport Light was made a couple of years ago with my 300mm prime. I got the lens for shooting concerts originally but have found some other uses for it. I published another shot of this lighthouse here but I prefer this one using a longer focal length.
Is Aspect Ratio Important?
For a long time when I started processing photographs I was reluctant to alter the aspect ratio of an image. My reasoning was to do with printing and framing rather than composition. I figured that there were all these standard sizes of frames available and you had to stay within those dimensions. Granted, custom framing and matt cutting is an added expense, but not every photograph fits the norm. We want our photograph to be displayed in it’s best form so I began to re-think my practices.
The image below has all of it’s information grouped together in a strip that was on the bottom of the frame while the sky was full of nothing but heavy fog. In this case, there was no reason to leave the sky there. In this case, changing the aspect ratio to a more panoramic crop made more sense. The rule of thumb for composition is if it isn’t helping the image, it is hurting it so the boring sky had to go.
Peaceful Morning