As much as anything else I'm putting this one up because it's been so long since we've had a clear blue sky that nearly any shot that includes one looks good to me. I'm now officially fed up with the grey, damp miserableness of the UK winter. Oh, and as with yesterday's shot this is taken with my new 100mm macro lens. I'm seriously impressed with the sharpness of this lens and can quite easily understand why many people refuse to shoot with zooms.
Uptade #2: For a few hours last night there were two versions of chromasia, and comments were being received on both. I had hoped that this was indicative of a minor rupture in the space-time continuum, but apparently chromasia was moved from one server to another so for a while there were two versions, one at the old IP address and one at the new one. And because DNS changes take a while to propagate, different people were seeing different versions. So if you posted a comment on this or any other entry, and it's gone, I'm afraid that you were commenting on the old version which is well on its way to becoming defunct.
Oh, and there appears to be something slightly amiss with chromasia at the moment in that I've received notification of at least three comments on this entry yet none of them appear to be showing up, either on the site or in my database. I'll look into it, but if you do post a comment and it doesn't appear, it's a technical hitch rather than anything personal ;-)
Update: This is very weird. When I load chromasia I see that I have 1 comment from jim, and when I check this against my MySQL database it's confirmed. However, I didn't receive the usual email confirmation of Jim's comment. And to add to the confusion: if I use my ftp client to look at the number of comments on this entry it says there are six, and this is confirmed by the number of email notifications I've received. I'm at a loss. If anyone has any idea as to what's going on I'd be grateful.
capture date camera lens aperture shutter speed shooting mode exposure bias metering mode ISO flash image quality RAW converter cropped?
2.51pm on 1/2/05
Canon 20D
EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
f/8.0
1/250
aperture priority
+0.0
evaluative
100
no
RAW
C1 Pro
minor distortion
comment byjim at 10:39 PM (GMT) on 3 February, 2005
That's an interesting shot. Looks rather sci-fi ish, probably with the comms tower in the background, if that's what it is.
I'm amazed that you find time to take such wonderful photos, and to maintain such a slick site. Very impressive it is too. I have been looking closely at your photos for the past few days, but have thus far not commented. Your Fylde Coast photos are realy excellent. We often visit my wife's aunt in Cleveleys, and spent a while a few nights ago getting excited about how well you have captured the area.
We "only" have three kids, aged 5, 3 and 1, and I spent most of my time feeling completely shattered and worn out. You have 5 kids, and another on the way - and have time for this photoblog too. Have you found a secret way to extract more than 24 hours out of a day?!
Your approach to your photos, and the resulting love for your family which radiates from a lot of them is very touching...
comment by VPra at 01:17 AM (GMT) on 4 February, 2005
Nice pic. the composition you made on shooting vertical lines really works, keep up the good work
comment byAlex at 03:35 AM (GMT) on 4 February, 2005
This shot is seriously cool, the blue sky is amazing. I have a 100mm f/2 that is tack sharp, I love that lens
I'm having the same problems with my site. People leave comments but I never know they're there. It's really strange.
comment by Sharla at 05:01 AM (GMT) on 4 February, 2005
Tech note: I see three comments (Jim, VPra & Alex).
First comment about your shot: I like the balance, how you pushed the comm tower to the right (but not too far) and kept it unfocused just enough, and the height of the fence pickets is just right. The strong black and white contrast of the pickets and the tower over the solid but slightly graded blue is striking -- cold steel against a cold, clear sky. And, yes, the pickets are very sharp!
Second comment: There was a time when industrialized objects as these in an art shot would have bothered me greatly. Then I saw a show from the twenties where many of the greatest photographers had featured industrialized objects in their shots, the subject of the shots, like a simple double-edged razor blade. These were facinating new inventions for them. Their art conveyed a whole new way of looking at these objects.
Your shot today brings back that memory and learning experience.
See, you captured much more than you would have ever guessed.
comment by matthew at 08:34 AM (GMT) on 4 February, 2005
hi,, i just start taking pictures as hobby recently..i have same camera as you and.. i almost visit here and really enjoy watching your pictures.. i just want to say thanks for such a nice pitures i can get inspired by them... Have a nice day !!
comment by jock123 at 10:36 AM (GMT) on 4 February, 2005
I like this a lot, because the elements in themselves are interesting (especially against that vivid blue sky!) but together they form a subliminal structure - I can see a sort of skeletal techno-“Houses of Parliament”, with the tower as the Big Ben clock tower, and the security fence as the gothic façade.
comment byDavid at 12:16 PM (GMT) on 4 February, 2005
Nice, but I think it looks better with between four and six of the pointy things (the comments box came in useful to block out the rest). The way it is, I feel the tower is pushed too far to one side.
comment bymiklos at 12:31 PM (GMT) on 4 February, 2005
That is a very silly mistake to make for a hosting company. You figure they'd fire off an email beforehand to all affected domains on the server, so people won't be sitting there scratching theirs heads trying to figure out what's going on.. Or did they think "Ahhh.. nobody will really notice/care for that couple of hours of downtime" .. Imagine you had a site that lost money on all unscheduled downtime.. Then the host decided to switch servers without notice.. Now THAT would suck. :) Anyway. It seems to be OK now.
I'll post my comment that I posted on the old site: You say you're impressed with the sharpness of this lens, but the foreground is still out of focus. Or seems blurry a bit. Is that due to post-processing?
comment bymiklos at 12:33 PM (GMT) on 4 February, 2005
I gotta say .. This server seems to be faster than the old one though. After submitting a comment, it used to take about 10-15 seconds for the page to refresh (here in Canada) but now it only took about 2 or 3 seconds...
comment bymarc at 03:53 PM (GMT) on 4 February, 2005
I most like the contrast between the lit and shadowed sides of the sharp things, and their.. um... sharpness. The blue sky is just a bonus and the comms tower gives added dimension to the background.
I get frustrated after two weeks of cloudy skies and rain. Can't imagine how you temperate folks deal with it. Glad I'm in the Caribbean! :D
comment byclappstar at 05:19 PM (GMT) on 4 February, 2005
Just curious. Why did you choose 796 pixels by 534 pixels as your standard image size? Love the pics!
comment bydjn1 at 09:02 PM (GMT) on 4 February, 2005
Thanks everyone.
And I do think this is sharp, but the markings on the fence make it look otherwise.
clappstar: my images are normally 784 x 522 because it seemed like a good size at the time. I have thought about upping the width to 800px but I still have quite a few visitors who use an 800x600 screen resolution so I've stuck with this size.
comment byzerosun at 05:37 PM (GMT) on 5 February, 2005
fantastic image. brilliant color and contrast here. i find the tower somewhat distracting though. the arrows are so interesting on their own with their intricate detail, i think it would be more powerful utilizing the empty space of the sky as negative space and having your attention drawn to just the arrows. just a thought...
As much as anything else I'm putting this one up because it's been so long since we've had a clear blue sky that nearly any shot that includes one looks good to me. I'm now officially fed up with the grey, damp miserableness of the UK winter. Oh, and as with yesterday's shot this is taken with my new 100mm macro lens. I'm seriously impressed with the sharpness of this lens and can quite easily understand why many people refuse to shoot with zooms.
Uptade #2: For a few hours last night there were two versions of chromasia, and comments were being received on both. I had hoped that this was indicative of a minor rupture in the space-time continuum, but apparently chromasia was moved from one server to another so for a while there were two versions, one at the old IP address and one at the new one. And because DNS changes take a while to propagate, different people were seeing different versions. So if you posted a comment on this or any other entry, and it's gone, I'm afraid that you were commenting on the old version which is well on its way to becoming defunct.
Oh, and there appears to be something slightly amiss with chromasia at the moment in that I've received notification of at least three comments on this entry yet none of them appear to be showing up, either on the site or in my database. I'll look into it, but if you do post a comment and it doesn't appear, it's a technical hitch rather than anything personal ;-)Update: This is very weird. When I load chromasia I see that I have 1 comment from jim, and when I check this against my MySQL database it's confirmed. However, I didn't receive the usual email confirmation of Jim's comment. And to add to the confusion: if I use my ftp client to look at the number of comments on this entry it says there are six, and this is confirmed by the number of email notifications I've received. I'm at a loss. If anyone has any idea as to what's going on I'd be grateful.
camera
lens
aperture
shutter speed
shooting mode
exposure bias
metering mode
ISO
flash
image quality
RAW converter
cropped?
Canon 20D
EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
f/8.0
1/250
aperture priority
+0.0
evaluative
100
no
RAW
C1 Pro
minor distortion
That's an interesting shot. Looks rather sci-fi ish, probably with the comms tower in the background, if that's what it is.
I'm amazed that you find time to take such wonderful photos, and to maintain such a slick site. Very impressive it is too. I have been looking closely at your photos for the past few days, but have thus far not commented. Your Fylde Coast photos are realy excellent. We often visit my wife's aunt in Cleveleys, and spent a while a few nights ago getting excited about how well you have captured the area.
We "only" have three kids, aged 5, 3 and 1, and I spent most of my time feeling completely shattered and worn out. You have 5 kids, and another on the way - and have time for this photoblog too. Have you found a secret way to extract more than 24 hours out of a day?!
Your approach to your photos, and the resulting love for your family which radiates from a lot of them is very touching...
Nice pic. the composition you made on shooting vertical lines really works, keep up the good work
This shot is seriously cool, the blue sky is amazing. I have a 100mm f/2 that is tack sharp, I love that lens
I'm having the same problems with my site. People leave comments but I never know they're there. It's really strange.
Tech note: I see three comments (Jim, VPra & Alex).
First comment about your shot: I like the balance, how you pushed the comm tower to the right (but not too far) and kept it unfocused just enough, and the height of the fence pickets is just right. The strong black and white contrast of the pickets and the tower over the solid but slightly graded blue is striking -- cold steel against a cold, clear sky. And, yes, the pickets are very sharp!
Second comment: There was a time when industrialized objects as these in an art shot would have bothered me greatly. Then I saw a show from the twenties where many of the greatest photographers had featured industrialized objects in their shots, the subject of the shots, like a simple double-edged razor blade. These were facinating new inventions for them. Their art conveyed a whole new way of looking at these objects.
Your shot today brings back that memory and learning experience.
See, you captured much more than you would have ever guessed.
hi,, i just start taking pictures as hobby recently..i have same camera as you and.. i almost visit here and really enjoy watching your pictures.. i just want to say thanks for such a nice pitures i can get inspired by them... Have a nice day !!
I like this a lot, because the elements in themselves are interesting (especially against that vivid blue sky!) but together they form a subliminal structure - I can see a sort of skeletal techno-“Houses of Parliament”, with the tower as the Big Ben clock tower, and the security fence as the gothic façade.
Nice, but I think it looks better with between four and six of the pointy things (the comments box came in useful to block out the rest). The way it is, I feel the tower is pushed too far to one side.
That is a very silly mistake to make for a hosting company. You figure they'd fire off an email beforehand to all affected domains on the server, so people won't be sitting there scratching theirs heads trying to figure out what's going on.. Or did they think "Ahhh.. nobody will really notice/care for that couple of hours of downtime" .. Imagine you had a site that lost money on all unscheduled downtime.. Then the host decided to switch servers without notice.. Now THAT would suck. :) Anyway. It seems to be OK now.
I'll post my comment that I posted on the old site: You say you're impressed with the sharpness of this lens, but the foreground is still out of focus. Or seems blurry a bit. Is that due to post-processing?
I gotta say .. This server seems to be faster than the old one though. After submitting a comment, it used to take about 10-15 seconds for the page to refresh (here in Canada) but now it only took about 2 or 3 seconds...
I most like the contrast between the lit and shadowed sides of the sharp things, and their.. um... sharpness. The blue sky is just a bonus and the comms tower gives added dimension to the background.
I get frustrated after two weeks of cloudy skies and rain. Can't imagine how you temperate folks deal with it. Glad I'm in the Caribbean! :D
Just curious. Why did you choose 796 pixels by 534 pixels as your standard image size? Love the pics!
Thanks everyone.
And I do think this is sharp, but the markings on the fence make it look otherwise.
clappstar: my images are normally 784 x 522 because it seemed like a good size at the time. I have thought about upping the width to 800px but I still have quite a few visitors who use an 800x600 screen resolution so I've stuck with this size.
fantastic image. brilliant color and contrast here. i find the tower somewhat distracting though. the arrows are so interesting on their own with their intricate detail, i think it would be more powerful utilizing the empty space of the sky as negative space and having your attention drawn to just the arrows. just a thought...