Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Monday, May 12, 2014
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Monday, February 4, 2013
Monday, October 1, 2012
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Homestead in History
Aged, tired and beautifully rich with stories and life, I am sure, but quiet enough for us to remember our own.
I love to add textures and layers over-top of images of old structures, like homes and barns. Playing with the colour and feel of each image is so rewarding once the right mix appears before my eyes. I know it is right when what I see marries with what I feel and it becomes one.
I shot this at a speed of 1/500 and an aperture of f/10. The speed was necessary as I was in a moving vehicle when shooting. The depth of field afforded with f/10 was adequate to the image.
I shot this at a speed of 1/500 and an aperture of f/10. The speed was necessary as I was in a moving vehicle when shooting. The depth of field afforded with f/10 was adequate to the image.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Getting Some Air
For me, this picture needed a bit of processing beyond what I would normally do when converting an image from RAW. I brought it into Lightroom and played until the saturation and contrast were what I wanted. I developed my own preset awhile ago which I used and changed it up a bit with a few tweaks. Then I exported to Photoshop to add a texture layer over top, further aging the image while warming up the colours a touch.
Creativity begins long before the shutter is clicked and long after the image is uploaded to the computer. Don't stop short.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Vintage Steel
I love taking pictures of musical instruments. One day I will head over to spend some time with my father-in-law and get some shots of him playing his saxophone, mandolin, harmonica, guitar, and any other instrument he has that I have forgotten at the moment.
In the meantime, I will keep taking pictures of the musical instruments we have here. Today I brought my husband's vintage steel guitar outside to shoot. The overcast sky was just right for my little shooting adventure.
Using f2.8 and a shutter speed of 1/400 I snapped a bunch of photos with my prime lens.
I quite like the rough textures of the fence and grass surrounding the sleek guitar with smooth lines. It is also a little bit quirky to photograph this outside - which I also like.
Getting low to the patio I got in much closer for this shot. I enjoy how the fence echos the guitar in design, first with the wood knot repeating the shape of the tone knob and then the shape of the wetter wood on the fence bottom replicating the form of the bunched up chord, only inverted. Finally the direction and lines of the wood grain are quite similar to the lines of the guitar strings.
And finally, much closer. With the darker shadows, this one is a little more moody.
In the meantime, I will keep taking pictures of the musical instruments we have here. Today I brought my husband's vintage steel guitar outside to shoot. The overcast sky was just right for my little shooting adventure.
Using f2.8 and a shutter speed of 1/400 I snapped a bunch of photos with my prime lens.
I quite like the rough textures of the fence and grass surrounding the sleek guitar with smooth lines. It is also a little bit quirky to photograph this outside - which I also like.
Getting low to the patio I got in much closer for this shot. I enjoy how the fence echos the guitar in design, first with the wood knot repeating the shape of the tone knob and then the shape of the wetter wood on the fence bottom replicating the form of the bunched up chord, only inverted. Finally the direction and lines of the wood grain are quite similar to the lines of the guitar strings.
And finally, much closer. With the darker shadows, this one is a little more moody.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Winnipeg's Exchange District
The Exchange District in our dear city is a community rich in both architecture and arts. I can take endless photos of the aging buildings that have their stories mortared between their bricks. It is as though taking their pictures allows me to imagine for a little while longer what those stories might be while understanding the tales held in the bricks and boards may well be different than my mind's wanderings and wonderings. Yet I am still free to imagine.
I find this composition to be interesting and engaging. The vintage billboard on the aging building is juxtaposed with the metal and wires found immediately beside it, as though echoing the marking with reality.
Without the bird, I think this image would lose something of importance. Flying, she moves freely between the wires and away from the building and the tales it holds. She is not bound to man's memories.
I find this composition to be interesting and engaging. The vintage billboard on the aging building is juxtaposed with the metal and wires found immediately beside it, as though echoing the marking with reality.
Without the bird, I think this image would lose something of importance. Flying, she moves freely between the wires and away from the building and the tales it holds. She is not bound to man's memories.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Resting
There are a few buses parked in a fenced in field in our neighborhood. The buses are aged. The years have taken their toll and yet they don't seem done to me. They continue to give in the way of memories. You don't have to gaze at these for long for a memory or two to come to mind. Even at rest, we can well imagine their glory days as we are transported back in time.
I took this shot through a chain linked fence. The plastic that was threaded through the fencing didn't allow for my lens to poke through. As a result the edges are softened. No matter, I brought the image into photoshop and played with some textures, further aging the image and creating even more of a retro feel. Not all images are lost to limitations!
I took this shot through a chain linked fence. The plastic that was threaded through the fencing didn't allow for my lens to poke through. As a result the edges are softened. No matter, I brought the image into photoshop and played with some textures, further aging the image and creating even more of a retro feel. Not all images are lost to limitations!
Monday, April 23, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
Space Between
There is space between time. Sometimes long and wide. Sometimes short. What fills the space for you?
I took this picture of a vintage spoon. The spoon belonged to my mother. I believe it was part of a set received as a wedding gift.
Many years lie between the day this gift was received and the day I took this image. Much fills that space. Laughter and tears, hardship and happiness, disappointments and dreams.
I think sometimes we can be in a hurry to fill up the spaces with many things but I think we might just lose sight of the fact that there is already something of significance in some of the spaces...quiet. Might I suggest that leaving room for space, for quiet, is important every now and again? It allows us room to breathe, to consider, to reflect, to enjoy, to notice, to hear.
I deliberately left space in this shot, hopefully allowing room for you and your reflections.
Using a 60 mm macro lens, I was able to get up close and personal, capturing the textures in the worn edges of the spoon and also the grain in the wood surface it rests on. Adding a layer in processing allowed for additional focus on age and time's passage, without getting too cluttered and distracting. When adding layers, choose wisely. Just as a well chosen digital layer can be a tool to enhance your image, it can also detract if the wrong one is chosen.
I took this picture of a vintage spoon. The spoon belonged to my mother. I believe it was part of a set received as a wedding gift.
Many years lie between the day this gift was received and the day I took this image. Much fills that space. Laughter and tears, hardship and happiness, disappointments and dreams.
I think sometimes we can be in a hurry to fill up the spaces with many things but I think we might just lose sight of the fact that there is already something of significance in some of the spaces...quiet. Might I suggest that leaving room for space, for quiet, is important every now and again? It allows us room to breathe, to consider, to reflect, to enjoy, to notice, to hear.
I deliberately left space in this shot, hopefully allowing room for you and your reflections.
Using a 60 mm macro lens, I was able to get up close and personal, capturing the textures in the worn edges of the spoon and also the grain in the wood surface it rests on. Adding a layer in processing allowed for additional focus on age and time's passage, without getting too cluttered and distracting. When adding layers, choose wisely. Just as a well chosen digital layer can be a tool to enhance your image, it can also detract if the wrong one is chosen.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Retro Ride
Come with me to a gentler time.
Bicycles and baskets, soda pops and swing bands.
As you may have noticed I am going through my images and also taking photos that bring me to another time, another place. Seeing places or things can immediately retrieve experiences from our archives and parade them through our mind's eye. They can also conjure up delightful imaginative stories of what it might have been to experience another time.
Bicycles and baskets, soda pops and swing bands.
As you may have noticed I am going through my images and also taking photos that bring me to another time, another place. Seeing places or things can immediately retrieve experiences from our archives and parade them through our mind's eye. They can also conjure up delightful imaginative stories of what it might have been to experience another time.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Memories
A picture can be worth a thousand words and maybe a memory or two as well.
A pencil sharpener is not very beautiful nor is it ugly. So what is it about this that made you look or keeps you here? It is exactly the type of object that many of us have used. We can remember standing in front of this sharpening our pencils for a spelling test in grade school or to finish a sketch in art class. We can hear the sharpener grind the orange painted wood away. We can smell the shavings and lead. We can see ourselves emptying the canister into the metal waste can. It is just one simple object that quickly places us back in specific places and times.
If you were to choose one object that would reach into many people's memory banks, what would it be?
A pencil sharpener is not very beautiful nor is it ugly. So what is it about this that made you look or keeps you here? It is exactly the type of object that many of us have used. We can remember standing in front of this sharpening our pencils for a spelling test in grade school or to finish a sketch in art class. We can hear the sharpener grind the orange painted wood away. We can smell the shavings and lead. We can see ourselves emptying the canister into the metal waste can. It is just one simple object that quickly places us back in specific places and times.
If you were to choose one object that would reach into many people's memory banks, what would it be?
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Featured Etsy Seller - DeLaBelle
Today I would like to feature another Etsy shop, DeLaBelle. DeLaBelle, a vintage clothing shop, is located in Victoria, BC, and aims to supply vintage clothing with an indie feel. The items are feminine, whimsical and romantic. DeLaBelle is earth-friendly, recycling yesteryear's treasures. They try to use soaps and scents that are natural and safe for the environment.
Here are just a few items from DeLaBelle's Etsy store. Be sure to stop by and visit her shop. You won't be sorry you took the time to do so!
Here are just a few items from DeLaBelle's Etsy store. Be sure to stop by and visit her shop. You won't be sorry you took the time to do so!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Currently on the front page of Etsy
"Still Hinged" has been included in a lovely treasury curated by my tleague peep, rachelrolseth.
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