10-02-10 Have I ever mentioned how much of a fan of brual modernist architecture I am? No? Well I have now. This pic is of one of my favoutite bits of concrete Sheffield. Its the bottom of the ramp that leads to the Atkinson's car park. There are a number of interesting angles on this ramp and I will be posting some more of them in the future. I dont know why I like concrete so much in many ways it can be a blot on the landscape but sometimes it can just be beautiful. This pic was processed only in lightroom its not a HDR but it kind of looks like it. I boosted the black levels in the image and this began to bring out some amazing tones. A little tweak of the saturation and vibrancy and the tones were there in full effect. I hope you like this one as much as I do. Oh wow! I just looked out the window and we have a blizzard! Damn, I have to go to work in that!

Manual Page Read: Pages 9-11 - Table of contents. (Yes I have decided to start at the begginging, the scattershot approach was getting sketchy).

Images Viewed: Added a new blog to my RSS reader. BEGINBEING. Which describes itself as "curated inspiration". Could be interesting!

Other Inspiration: Met with my project supervisor today who helped steer me further down the path to getting my dissertation done. I need to start planning experiments now. It's getting scary.

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28-01-10 Believe it or not this is practically straight out of the camera. All I did was add a little contrast and sharpen it. What is it though? Well its a bottle of shower gel.For some reason my wife bought me a lot of shower gel for Christmas. She must think I smell. Anyway when I woke up (late) this morning the sun was streaming into my flat again. I noticed the tiny bubbles in the bottle a few weeks ago and I thought it would make for an interesting macro, I grabbed the bottle placed it in the direct sunlight and started shooting through it. About 85 shots later I finally had something usable. Hope you like it!

Manual Page Read: Page 48 - Shooting with the automatic setting.

Images Viewed: I went to a flickr meetup last night! So I'll be taking a look to see if any photos were posted today. Hi to Nick, Paul, Alicia, Martin, Hugo and all the other people who's names I didn't catch.

Other Inspiration: I watched the apple presentation of the iPad last night. Anyone got any thoughts on that? I wasn't impressed.

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