A quiet day today, recovering from a lovely night out with my beautiful wife of five years. We went to our favorite restaurant and enjoyed a great meal and a few drinkies.
I haven’t really thought about the lab today, though it has completely absorbed my mind over the last two weeks—honestly becoming a bit of an unhealthy obsession. I’m still involved, but this week I’m pulling back a little to let them make some firm decisions. After all, it’s their future at stake, not mine.
This image was a chance moment that just unfolded in front of me. It is a brutal crop, so I think I’ll post the uncropped version tomorrow for comparison and let you decide which one has more impact. —csj
UPDATE:
Apologies for the week-long silence! Between my day job, helping to rebrand the lab, setting up their new internet cafe, and reorganizing their retail layout, I simply haven’t had time to get out with my kit.
On top of that, I’m migrating my workflow from PC to Mac—mostly because I fancied a change and wanted to see what all the fuss is about. After a week with the new Mac, the build quality easily surpasses any laptop I’ve owned in the last five years, and the display is absolutely outstanding. Beyond that, though, I don’t find the experience all that different.
In fact, I find macOS a bit limiting when it comes to networking. As an engineer working on corporate networks, I often need to bypass firewall rules using Windows clients that have been standard for years. I’ve yet to find a simple way to do this on OS X without serious firewall reconfiguration. There are other “out-of-the-box” quirks too, like MSN video conferencing requiring a third-party client like aMSN, and VPN configurations being hidden by default. Strange.
Anyway, I’m about as far away from photography as I can get this week. Hopefully, I’ll be back up to speed soon. I’m just awaiting Photoshop and Lightroom for the Mac, and once those are installed, the normal flow on ID7 will resume! Thanks for sticking around. —csj
- taken|19/04/2008 19:16
- camera|Canon EOS 5D
- lens|17 – 40mm L
- focal length|17mm
- aperture|f/4
- shutter speed|1/20 sec
- shooting mode|Manual
- exposure bias|0
- metering mode|pattern
- iso|200
- flash fired|No
- image quality|RAW
- raw converter|Photoshop CS2
- cropped|3×2
Interesting idea. Nice !
I “thought” I preferred this one but going and having a look at the uncropped I think it has much more impact (B&W version). Gives more of a sense of how small this cabin was, almost as if they’d been locked away! Nice either way, just my opinion ;O)
CM
I like it. Creative. Nice tones too.
I like it. Creative. Nice tones too.
Intriguing shot, good inspiration for a story, with the child behind the window looking somewhat frightened. Sounds like it’ll be interesting to see the un-crop, looking forward to it.