Photowalk 58: Shapes. (And Cold)

Alright. It wasn't Scandinavian Cold. It wasn't Canadian Cold. It wasn't Scott of the Antarctic going out for a wee Cold. But I do know that when I got back from today's Photowalk I couldn't feel my nose. Actually I couldn't feel my fingers feeling my nose.

Anyway, a few shots to look at, I tried to embrace the white skies and concentrate on shapes, converting all today's set to black and white, so tell me what you think...

Wooden Hut On Pier

I've shot this subject a dozen times, but today I was drawn to the reflection, the shape and the perspective. I shuffled around trying to get my camera perpendicular to the ground and pointing straight at the middle of the building to minimise distortion.

A few people came walking past while I was doing this, I'm sure they must have wondered what I was up to....

Industrial Units

What first attracted me to this scene were the chimneys on the left, and that strange looking air extractor. I took a few photographs, but couldn't get further away to minimise the perspective distortion of looking up. Not having a tilt-shift lens (or a camera that could use one anyway!) I opted to take some wider shots and perhaps crop later in post-processing.

As it turned out I liked this, widest one the best anyway - so its the old adage of always take a lot of different shots at different focal lengths and positions of the same subject, you never know what will work the best.

I did have to distort the photo in Elements to straighten the Chimneys and the lamppost, which my lens had curved. (Image - Transform - Distort).

Frozen Moat

I feel cold just looking at this one!

Pushed the contrast in Photoshop Elements using levels and blend modes, and had to clone out a distracting branch on the right.

Highland Cow

These fellas were still hanging around not doing much on my way home, so another attempt at a "Cow Portrait". Like his breath though.

Thanks for checking out my photographs, I think my fingers have started to defrost (I'm typing with my nose), so I'm keen to get out again soon. Snow! I need snow!

Cheers, Rob.