Last night at Royston Rockets. Many thanks to the club for letting us get in their way.
An extra one for fun:
UPDATE: Royston Rockets have used the top image in their website banner.
Wildflowers
Another experiment. Two identical images. Completely desaturated the green in one. Blurred the other. Layered the blurred colour image behind the desaturated one and set the top image to 45% opacity. Theoretically our brains fit wobbly colour to crisp edges (according to watercolour lessons I had years ago) and this is my finding the point where it starts to not.
Extra one. Double exposure with intentional camera movement on one of them:
Three Elements
A quick technical experiment for creating multi-exposures without the background diluting the strength of the single-exposure foreground. Because I have a plan for tomorrow night. We’ll see….
(Buckyballs)
Cube
Under One Flag
Pride 2023 (Gallery)
Impish
Free
Like No-One’s Watching
Sliding Into Your Demonic Messages
Titania Trust
Floss
Angel
Ultraviolet Flower Test
Hmm… Turns out if you filter out all visible and IR light, you don’t have much light left (!) so it’s hard to get a high shutter speed or small aperture. These all employed a UV torch to help that. I was naively hoping for otherwise-invisible patterns to emerge but either I’m capturing the light wrong, or I’m misremembering something from my childhood about bees….
Dahlias
Not sure which of these I prefer…
Doomscroll Alternative
Hill Farm peonies
Order & Chaos
Meaning business
Royston Rockets Compo Night
Excellent shoes
Barely rescued from the gloom
YAAAH!
Ikebana
I cannot decide if large-aperture multi-focus stacking creates a different image from a single smaller-aperture exposure (all other things being equal). My impression is that it creates a feeling of looking at a painted work (traditionally all parts in minute focus) that I do not feel with a straightforward large depth of field…
Pretending to not be geocaching
Small-Leaved Lime
Crosshatch
Laidlaw Music Centre
Black & White (IR) St Andrews
Edgecliff
Castle
South Castle Street
Giant Spider
Castle Sands
Oscar
10-month old Oscar was in his happy place chasing tennis balls on the East Sands.
Letting light in on magic… This looked a bit flat, but then I applied a linear gradient mask to the background and desaturated the distance, very satisfyingly giving it more depth.
