My 365 Photo Tour

I’m all packed and ready for the off. Infact I am at the station at the moment. I had to employ my phone again for this shot as all my camera equipment is packed. It’s a pretty good camera all in all. Anyway part of the theme behind this 365 was to capture the essence of the day and I have done that here I think. 

We fly tomorrow so it is unlikely I will get tomorrows shot up on the day, you’ll probably get them Thursday, also with there being a 9 hour time difference shots may appear after midnight UK time. I will adjust the blog as needed to have the correct posts on the correct days. 

Here’s the stats:
Exposure:0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture:f/2.4
Focal Length:3.2 mm
Flash:Auto, Fired

Wow, 2 months down!!! 10 to go and I’m starting this month off with a discovery. I have lived in Sheffield for nearly 6+1/2 years now and never before, have I seen this statue that is pretty much in the centre of town! Yeah I know, I must walk round with my eyes shut (and sometimes I really think I do). Anyway, the sun was out at pretty much "The magic hour" so I thought I would take a few shots. I think I learnt something on this one too, I feel that the background maybe a bit distracting and take away from the statue itself, however I could not get a different angle due to restrictions on where I could actually walk. Let me know what you think, my view is that the composition was below par…

Here’s the stats:
Exposure:0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture:f/6.3
Focal Length:55 mm
ISO Speed:400
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Flash:No Flash

Today’s title has 2 meanings I guess. After yesterdays pitiful submission that I am openly not proud of at all I wanted to do something good that took effort. I had had this shot in mind for a while now and so I thought today would be a good day to put that to work. I must say it was hard work to get the setup right, it involved some neodymium magnets some black thread and a lot of patience to get the paper clips hovering in the right place and not sticking to each other. Anyway this is what I came up with, I increased the blacks in lightroom and upped the vibrancy a bit to bring out the redness of the target.

I am pretty pleased with it to be honest. I can see myself messing about with magnets more in this 365!

Here’s the stats:
Exposure:0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture:f/5.3
Focal Length:42 mm
ISO Speed:400
Exposure Bias:+1 EV
Flash:Auto, Fired, Return detected

Today I made a mistake, I left my camera at home twice. I went into town at lunch and left it then and tonight I am at a fundraising night and I left it at home for that too. So tonight I have employed the use of my phone for tonights shot. If I am honest the photo has reflected a lot of today. Beer at lunch and now means tomorrow could have a slow start. 

Anyway it’s a racing night here and the race is about to start. No stats on this one. 

It’s a poor show for tonight I know. Apologies.

THis is the Frog and Parrot pub in Sheffield, it’s one of my more favoured venues in this fair city and so today I thought I would take a shot of it. The blues from the down lights make it even more impressive at night so I waited till dark to take the shot. Processed in lightroom I simply upped the clarity a bit and left the rest as is.

This is also a preview of one of the themes I want to do over the next few months with this 365. More to come on that soon!

Here’s the stats:
Exposure:0.3
Aperture:f/4.2
Focal Length:26 mm
ISO Speed:400
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Flash:No Flash

Today was another office day and it has to be said my imagination has been bit lacking over the last few days as all I have been doing is working working working… Anyway I was trawling flickr for inspiration and saw a lot of shot’s using hands. So I thought I would have a go. I messed around with a number of shot’s angles and positions and then converted them to black and white and ran them through Color Efex Pro. This was my fav of the lot

I am watching the Olympic Womens Ice Hockey final. Being part Canadian this is big match for me. Canada vs USA and we just scored a 2nd goal WOOOO 2-0 Canada

Here’s the stats:
Exposure:0.125 sec (1/8)
Aperture:f/4.8
Focal Length:38 mm
ISO Speed:200
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Flash:No Flash

Today I cooked a Jalfrezi curry. I cooked it this morning and put it in a container to let the flavours infuse to the chiken more and took it to work with me. I then heated it up with some Uncle Ben’s microwave rice and had it for dinner. If I do say so myself it was pretty good! I thought I would make it my shot for the day.

Added a small amount of Vignetting in Lightroom and that was about it.

Here’s the stats:
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Auto, Fired, Return detected

This is my passport, it’s been pretty well used, and even gone for a swim at the base of a waterfall (someone forgot to remove it from their pocket). I have been pretty lucky with countries I have visited, including Venezuela, Canada and many parts of Europe. I am off travelling again soon as well. I am heading off to Canada for a ski break away. I will of course continue to do my 365, infact I am really looking forward to taking shot’s that are not from my home, office or Sheffield. I however may well not be able to post them each day. I will when I can put them up either in batches or if I have a regular internet connection the post them daily. I know in the Second week I will but the 1st week I am not 100% sure. Best way to follow items when I post them is to subscribe to my RSS feed.

Post processing on this was done in Color Efex Pro.

Here’s the stats:
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 40 mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Auto, Fired, Return detected

This is Jamie. I work with Jamie and today he was a little but frustrated by how slow a customers computer was running. As a result whilst waiting for it to do things he has a little bit of waiting. Of course he productively spent it doing this. Good Ole Jamie.

Processed in LightRoom, given a square crop and I added some grain to this. I am not overly happy with the post processing I did on the shot, however I ran out of time in order for me to get the photo posted today.

Here’s the stats:
Exposure:0.04 sec (1/25)
Aperture:f/5.6
Focal Length:55 mm
ISO Speed:400
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Flash:No Flash

Just when we thought we had seen the last of the white powdery stuff (no not cocaine) it returns. So as any photographer should I went out with my camera. I took a selection of shot’s and this was one of my fav’s. Not done much with it. Brought out the darks a wee bit and straightened it slightly.

That’s All.

Here’s the stats:
Exposure:0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture:f/4.0
Focal Length:26 mm
ISO Speed:400
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Flash:No Flash