Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts

Monday, 29 November 2021

THE SELECTION

Just a selection and a few of the photos I have managed to work on but sadly I am underpowered with a temperamental laptop and this is just a small selection edit from what is now 10,000 images.

These wee only lightly edited from raw files form a 42 megapixel sensor and reduced to 20% of their original size.





























Saturday, 7 September 2019

A FEW FLOWER SNAPS

Been back at the grindstone .. for a number of weeks though I have a few .. issues as well as obstacles .. I cannot process my RAW files they way I would like .. for the moment.

Been killing it, and myself, for around four to six weeks now. Some self psychological tricks and some brute force. Almost got me killed .. twice in 30 seconds .. bunch of other idiot cyclists and when I avoided them at high speed my heart went wild.

Still here to tell the tale.

Also as it turned out I was being punished .. due to other blogs and for telling the truth, would you believe? Been going on since 2016 though I suspected it a lot sooner.

Now at the time many said I was mad .. but not any more and I did manage to prove it.

I have also been hitting several social media sites to build up interest .. some a month or so others back in January. They have been hitting those too. It seems some truths are not OK while some lies are .. would you believe it?

I have taken a fair few and over 6,100 since I got back into it some weeks back. Along with my Sony A99II I also take out a little Nikon compact I have been using for years. Wish I could replace this with something that is more .. professional, manual, raw files and with much larger apertures.

I will get to the ones taken with the Sony I have ever so slightly altered.

These are taken with the very old Nikon that is a camera for snap photography really ..




















Tuesday, 31 July 2018

ART OF THE DEVIANTS

Well it has been a long rough ride during the roughest and toughest time in my life which seemingly has no end. Not even a flicker of light at the end of the tunnel.

It has taken me weeks to work out what has been up with my photograph rejections and as it turns out ..

  • One site accepted photos it already rejected?!
  • One site was rejecting 33% of 6 and then 100% of over 60?!
  • Another site, Adobe who make Photoshop and Lightroom, tell me that when you edit photos too much they more or less do not become photos any longer?!
    • So I said your software, Lightroom is wrongly named photo-editing software then?!

So it was suggested to me that I look for other sites that cater more for artistic pictures. Oddly enough I already did that and had a tab open. But I did not decide to go with them.

Nor did I go with the next half a dozen I looked at, though I came close a few time and espcailly with one called Folksy.

In the end I went with one called Deviant Art. Seemed OK though I did not know there was a limit to what you can put up without an upgraded account.

Also I went from 2GB down to one and the next day I started uploading and it was back at 2GB so I do not know if the limit is 2GB per day?

I have been rammed into a corner and my health is playing up and I am having difficulties trying to carry out my mission.

Even ow after realising that the evil social services tried to trap my daughter after trying to get her to sign a document that basically stated she was going to get into trouble no matter what and wanted her to fucking agree to it, now confirmed by a solicitor. Even with my heart playing up several times and me wondering if I was going to have a heart attack. Even with my daughter fretting on the phone about what the social services were going to try this time and try next. Even when I kicked a car door with blood coming from my leg and a bruise sure to follow. Even with being called out suddenly to go to my storage lock up to get some stuff out before I lose all my remaining belongings. Even with all that .. I got someone faking crying over a one foot wide strip of carpet needing a vacuum. Yah .. I said tears! I am wondering if I am going to get whined at tomorrow because someone else has been whining today and I was not even in the fucking house at all, all day!

See I keep telling people I just cannot win!

I need to get out .. I need to move on and my finances have all been cut off .. my ad revenue has been frozen. I have been contacted by some suspect people and I even .. hmm lets just say looked at half a dozen times today?

So another plan to fight back and the mountains placed before me..

Deviant Art.

They will help you sell all manner of things of an artistic nature and maybe others?

Here is the place that photos I have played around with in my photo editor to look bright, contrasting, soft and even a little watercolour painting like will end up ..

Friday, 6 July 2018

FREELOADER DOING NOTHING

Well after being accused of being that from someone that is an idiot, tried to twist what I said into something I did not and went back under the rock from whence they came ..

With all the pain, several mornings of nearly collapsing and the searing heat I managed to do four days, well two and two halves after running out of steam, I got out to try and continue on with my photography plans .. as per the agreed business plan I had with my Job Centre at the time only to have the DWP pull the rug from under me one week after going self employed, .. to the person making the comment .. you fucking idiot!

What he would not want to hear is in my second year of blogging I got a call while I was cycling from a lady who got my number from someone I had met who had been reading my blog .. probably inspired to say this due to an early photo of this Hooded Man and I was called a modern day Robin Hood. Was not the first or the last time that was said to me along with a few other things. Nice things before you wonder, lol

To be honest I do not feel like Robin Hood as I have not got a pile of cash I have ripped off the rich and do not feel like I am getting anywhere fast! Lol.

As for the DWP I guess they discovered I was not being kind to them and pulled the funding from a firm they should not have done as they were contractors?!

As for the photographs .. I have taken around 650 to 700 photographs across four days which technically should have been more.

I will spend the next three to four days working my way through them and uploading them .. I will be very happy if I produce between 300 and over the moon if I produce 500 pictures.

I would imagine I have taken around 1,200 to 1,800 pictures and improving my post-processing skills as well as my eye and my use of the Sony A99II camera as I go.

Here are some photos and the first is a return of the Hooded Man from around four or five years ago which became associated with me .. in a way that made me feel kind of honoured ..