Project 52 by John B. Harle

[MilT0s]

Thank you, Miltos. I looked at your site, so coming from you high praise indeed!

Thank you for your kind words John!

[johnbharle]

This is at Trafalgar Square. I was shooting with a fast shutter speed to stop the motion of the water. Not sure, but I may have been too successful. (Didn't think to take this shot with auto exposure.) It seems snowy to me. However, I showed it to a couple of friends who like it. This is very cropped and I like the line I get from the street lamps and Big Ben. I also like the color saturation and the effect from a graduated filter on the clouds.

[johnbharle]

At Trafalgar Square. Didn't do much to these. Didn't crop. Just used a graduated filter to bring out the clouds, which were what attracted my attention when I shot them.

[johnbharle]

At Westminster Abbey.

[Geoff F]

Week 32. I agree that using a fast shutter speed as turned the rain to snow. But, it is difficult to get rain to look like rain.

Week 33. I think you have tried to show too much with these shots and encountered lens distortion errors. Cropping tighter, possibly with a 5 x 4 ratio, would limit the distortion.

The last shot works well.

[johnbharle]

Week 33. I think you have tried to show too much with these shots and encountered lens distortion errors. Cropping tighter, possibly with a 5 x 4 ratio, would limit the distortion.

I'm not sure, but I think what you are calling a distortion error is what I liked about these shots, eg, the wide-angle-ness of them. I guess the buildings don't look right, but my focus is the clouds. I feel they look good. Still, it wouldn't hurt to try a crop and get everything into proper perspective

The last shot works well.

Thank you Geoff. As I said above, coming from you, high praise indeed!

[johnbharle]

I have moved from the London portion of my trip to the Denmark portion. This is a fountain near the Royal Palace in Copenhagen. Again, I was trying to stop the motion of the water. The waters dance, but not sure if it's actually an interesting picture otherwise.



Here we came up from behind the Little Mermaid statue. We were on a boat tour of Copenhagen. Someone stuck what looks like a flag in the mermaid's asscrack...Tourists

[johnbharle]

Going out to the car one foggy morning towards the end of September, I ran back into the house, got my camera and snapped this. Since then I have been so swamped at work that I sat the camera down and haven't picked it up until today. I'd forgotten I'd taken this. I think it was a very lucky shot, but I'm pleased with it.

[johnbharle]

Hmmmm....looks different up here on the board. Guess it's something with the compression.

[Geoff F]

Strange effect there John.

Looking at full screen size, there is some form of banding running from the left side around the sun to the right edge.

I've never encountered this effect before.

Perhaps somebody can give a scientific explanation.

[johnbharle]

Strange effect there John.

Looking at full screen size, there is some form of banding running from the left side around the sun to the right edge.

I've never encountered this effect before.

Perhaps somebody can give a scientific explanation.

I went back and looked. I can see the effect on the jpg I have in my computer. It must have something to do with my development settings in Lightroom. It's not a bad effect. Kinda gives an "arty" mood. But I'd like to consciously inject artiness into my pics :-)

[johnbharle]

Solstice candles.


The beauty berries have just shriveled on the branch. I'm afraid we're coming into another drought year.

[Goldcoastgolfer]

I love the mood portrayed by both photos. There's a minor distraction in the bottom left of the second photo that could be cloned out though.

[johnbharle]

I love the mood portrayed by both photos. There's a minor distraction in the bottom left of the second photo that could be cloned out though.

You know, I got so intent on the middle, I totally missed that part. Thanks for clueing me in.

[johnbharle]

Limping along to the end, I did go out and photograph last week while I took some time off. Looking back over the year, I see that my "focus" throughout most of the year seemed to be on macro photography. But I got a good long lens (70-300mm) for xmas this year, so I close out with a few from the new lens. These are from the countryside around my home town.

This has been an enjoyable project. I do feel that I'm better coming out of the year, almost solely because of the great support and criticism I received from this group. Thanks guys!!! I have to echo the sentiment that there were simply too many projects for me to be able to keep up. Hell, I couldn't even keep up with my own project for a good portion of the year :-& Anyway, Happy New Year to all and on to a higher plane of photography for us all!

Who can refuse a windmill?


And of course, we have country roads in abundance...




And then, a country road WITH a windmill...Yippee!


And with these, I close my thread.
john