Hamilton Harbour Panorama – Colour or B&W?

Hamilton Harbour Panorama in Colour
Hamilton Harbour Panorama in Colour
Hamilton Harbour Panorama in B&W
Hamilton Harbour Panorama in B&W (mostly)

The photos for each panorama were taken by a DJI Mini 2 drone shooting in raw (DNG) format. ISO was fixed at 100 and the aperture for each photo was 2.8. Shutter speeds varied from 1/2000 to 1/3200 S. The photos were then post-processed in Luminar 4.

I’m partial to the monochromatic version myself. What about you?

Playing with the New Drone

It’s so cool having a camera that you can position anywhere. It opens up a whole new world in photography for me.

The Allanburg Bridge
Trainyard from Above
Hwy 20 leading to the Allanburg Bridge

Man with Sticks on his Back

The original of this photo had a lot more detail, but I liked the way it looked when I applied a “toy camera” effect to it and converted it to this shade of black and white.

Shot on a Nikon J2 back in 2014 with a 10-33 mm lens, f5.3 @ 1/400 @ ISO 100.

Guiding the Cows Home

Revisiting an old photo from 2014. Shot on a Nikon J2 with Nikkor 10-33 mm lens, f5/6 @ 1/100 @ ISO 400 through the back window of the car I was riding in.

I’m not sure where the cows were or if the boy regularly takes the cows for a walk so they can eat elsewhere, but it was quite a unique photo opportunity!

It wasn’t a very clear picture which is partly why I processed it in this fashion, but I felt the black and white processing gives it a more nostalgic, timeless look.

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2021

I always have the annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day marked in my calendar, but sadly often miss it due to extenuating circumstances.

But not this year…

I started my journey in Port Robinson where I saw this abandoned bridge. I had the camera, a Nikon D750, mounted on a monopod which helped stabilize the 1.5 second exposure. I submitted this image to the Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day exhibit, even though I took some others that I also liked.

Bridge Closed (Pinhole)

 

Moving to a path in the woods next to the bridge, I then took this abstract image of some small trees and bushes. It didn’t start out to be abstract, but a gust of wind hit me just as I was taking the 2 second exposure which resulted in the motion blur. Normally I would have deleted the image but in this case it worked!

Abstract Trees & Bushes (Pinhole)

 

Next I set out along some back roads looking for suitable scenes. This one suited me fine:

Old Fashioned Tree (Pinhole)

 

As well as this one:

Train Tracks (Pinhole)

 

Overall, I think it was a successful day. In past years I’ve gone out and maybe only had one photo I was willing to share. It’s a very hit-and-miss process because you really don’t know how they will look until you get back to your computer to look at them enlarged.

In my case though, the process is much easier than many other photographers because I’m using a digital camera with a pinhole adapter. Many other photographers use homemade cameras with film that of course makes the process much more complicated.

Here is the pinhole adapter that I used. As you can see, the adapter replaces the lens so the pictures are taken without a lens!

Pinhole Adapter on Nikon D750

 

If you’d like to see other photos that were submitted by Canadian photographers, visit here.

Cuba, January 2020

Going to Cuba is always like taking a step back in time. With that in mind, I wanted to create pictures that looked old, and what better way than by making them black and white?

Since I only brought along a tablet on this trip, I used Snapseed to process the pictures. If you don’t have Snapseed installed on your phone or tablet, you really should. In my opinion it’s the best mobile photo editor available, on both iOS and Android.