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Morning Sun Breaching The Big White Dome Thing
Okay... This isn't the first time I have noticed this, but had earlier this Summer - that very noticeable, and annoying, halo effect that is on some of my images.
Even though one of the first things to enter my head as the culprit, was the scanning in of the negative to a digital image done at the Photo Lab I work at, since I had never noticed it before, and that it was on a roll that had gone through my little PS point and shoot camera, thought dumbly that it might somehow have something to do with it.
Now, it also is ridiculously apparent in this photo of the big white dome thing, ticking me off again, because I like this shot. It would just seem that the Noritsu scanner that is at the Photo lab I work, somehow poorly does something in it's scanning of images that are of high contrast, causing this halo effect around darker parts of the image. Has anybody else ever encountered this with their images? I would be interested to know.
I do have my own dedicated film scanner... will perhaps need to run these photo's negatives through and see what results they render.
Looking Up At Lamp Post
Until I get the 24mm f2.8 lens for my F4, I am resorted to only shooting with the 85mm f1.8 on it... which when I am wanting to get a wider field of view and coverage while shooting, I am either SOL, or, have to pull out my Olympus Stylus Epic 35mm PS point and Shoot to capture it. What I ended up doing for these next few shots, when I was wandering around downtown O shooting and and my 85mil was to narrow of a view.
An aside here - you know, I can't look at this photo now without getting an optical illusion of the lampshade being like it is looking down on like a construction, or pith, helmet... as if the bulb is resting atop the pinnacle of a convex shape, instead of being within a concave lampshade that hang down, around it.
Once, Through These Doors
Used to be the lobby of Omaha's black and white - the World Herald newspaper's home. Obviously no longer the case.
Entrance To Joe's Collectibles
Growing up, on the street I used to live, there was a gentleman down the hill, whose garage was so full of this and that, that it's door was unable to be closed, and their car never able to be parked in it. The outside of this place, made me think of my old neighbor's garage... all this stuff just sitting out there, overflowing into this alley.
Red Side Of Building, Flag, St. Peter's
As everyone can attest from viewing the photos on my site from throughout the years, I have a preference for shooting in lovely black and white... but do have to say, that sometimes it is fun to dive deep into, and swim around in the world of color :-)
Which also dictates how I shoot, what type of film I have loaded in my camera, color, or B&W. There is no safer bet than to wonder if whether or not I would have taken this shot in B&W... I most likely never even would have noticed it, as my eye would be looking at things entirely different than to notice this shot, if I had B&W in the camera... would have just walked by it, unnoticed. Just like the preceding shot of the potpourri of crap outside that collectibles place, I wouldn't even had bothered shooting it in B&W, or considered it for a fleeting second to shoot it in B&W... the only reason I did was because of the colors.
I love black and white, but color sure is fun too!
It's A Boy, It's A Boy, Thank God Almighty, It's A Boy!
Unbeknownst to me, around the time I was shooting that previous photo, a hundred and twenty miles away, my brother's wife went unexpectedly into labor three and half weeks early, and delivered her, and my brother here, first, and long anticipated, son.
Upon getting home from shooting, getting the message (I never brought my phone with me that morning), I quickly made the trip up to welcome my little nephew into this here life/world.
The cracker box of a hospital room they were in, warranted me having to pull out my wide PS'r to frame up this shot.
Huh?
The following morning of their little brother being born, on the way to school, I just held my little PS camera over my shoulder, and blindly took a shot of my nieces in the back. The now, not-the-baby-of-the-family, happened to notice my doing so, and just happened to have the camera pointed more in her direction to capture her wondering what her knuckle-headed uncle was doing.
I absolutely love this shot though, again for the colors! My nieces in their colorful school garb, the warm morning sun falling on them... for a blind, over-the-shoulder shot... I should shoot more like that, if I will garner shots like this!
Rural Drive-By
A couple hours after taking the previous photo, I was heading the hundred and twenty miles back home, as I had to be back at work in the Photo Lab. On the drive home, to use up the remaining frames on the roll of film, I intermittently would just lower either the passenger window, or my window, stick the camera out and squeeze off a shot of what I was driving by at seventy miles per hour... these closing three shots, are the result from that.
Rural Drive-By II
Gee, earlier in the morning, I get a pretty nice shot from just blindly holding my camera over my shoulder and shooting... here, I am holding my camera out the window of a seventy mile per hour vehicle, that I am also driving, and capture this rather nice rural scene... are the photo gods trying to tell me something?
Rural Drive-By III
Ever since I was little though, on the countless trips made up through this rural countryside to the northeastern corner of Nebraska, to visit family, I had always thought it was chock full of photo opportunities. But, always wanting to get to the destination, time never taken to pull over and actually capture the many number of shots that I see.
Someday, I will have to purposefully make my going up, and/or back, an extra day or so tacked on, so I can leisurely take my time en route to and from, to pull over and capture the countless shots that I have always wanted to.