A Picture a day (My 365) . . . Made it to the End!

Like the beach huts, another shot I'd like to do myself.
Think you're coping with this better than me at the moment. :thumbs:
 
5th October: Pasta Twirls, Macro HDR Solarized Style.

Another day in desperate search of inspiration, spent far too long processing this shot!

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Thanks Dave, was a very boring shot straight from the camera, The solarization effect gives it an abstract edginess.
 
6th October: Fun in a box!

Why is it that the box is always more fun than what's inside?

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Thanks Jonny, the elephants were actually my wife's toy's when she was a wee one, so they've had good use :)
 
8th October: Portsmouth Guildhall

Glorious weather today (after the awful rain yesterday). First time I've seen the Guildhall, what a fantastic building. Only had the nifty fifty lens today, so took my trademark angled shot. Not much processing needed on this image, as I used the polarizer.

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Thanks mate.

Only a slight bit of contrast on this image, so that blue is from the polarizer. I knew the sun was in the right place and when I turned the polarizer I got all excited :geek:

I know the angles are not to everyone's liking, but I love it, as most of the time you would never see these objects like this, unless you stopped and tilted your head ;)
 
Polarizers really help a sky don't they, always looks good even through the viewfinder.
 
I love polarizers, if I could only have one filter it would be a polarizer. Providing your subject is at 90 degrees to the sun they are amazing :)
 
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It's a great building, some of the folks at work were amazed when I told the sky was not the result of any heavy photoshop processing, you should definitely get one ;)
 
Thanks Jonny, I could have shouted up to close the window :D But as you say, it adds something to the image
 
Thanks 78, it was a dark and overcast day, so I had to resort to this close shot with no sky, but it works as a nice abstract image
 
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10th October: Little Hidden Barn

Just visible in the next field, I spotted this barn and decided it would make do for today's shot. Tried 3 different exposures for HDR treatment, but looked ghastly. Think I maybe going off HDR effect a little now, leaning more towards additional effects and tweaks in Photoshop.

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Is the door open or is it just me?? ;)

I think I've gone off HDR a bit as well, I used it for a few urbex shots recently, but it didn't do anything that I couldn't have done better through PP. I can see me having a film grain fetish for a while though...
 
. . . it does look like the door is open ;)

Agree with you mate, I saw a recent article in Digital Camera Magazine, where 3 toggers took different shots around Cardif, one chap did HDR shots and they looked shocking, one had massive halo's around the buildings. Since then I've just gone right off HDR. As you say, can be done better in Photoshop (and I'm discovering more neat tweaks in Photoshop all the time).

Yep that film grain is just lush!!!
 
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11th October: AN2 under stormy skies.

Made a quick dash to Popham airfield, lots of people but not many planes, saw a Yak that I'd not seen before, but other than that nothing much. So this is a shot of Popham's resident AN2 Antanov, the world's biggest single engine biplane. Had a nice chat with an old timer engineer. This AN2 was built in 1985, Russian design, built in Poland and registered in Bulgaria. They continued to make AN2's up until 2002.

Took the 24-105 and flash for change rather than the 100-400 zoom. After 35 mins, I sat in the car and was considering how long to wait around to see if any other planes would arrive and then heavens opened and made my decision for me.

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