Night Train (a Series)
This painting series was a bit unique for me. It had a common theme in terms of the subject matter – all of the images were drawn from what I saw (and captured with photos) during the night while on a train between Edmonton and Vancouver in November of 2007. What was unique for me was the use of oil pastel on a number of the works, and oil paint on a couple of larger ones.
“Rolling Through the Night”, oil on canvas, 41 by 51 cm, Nov 2008
“November Rockies Dusk”, oil pastel on paper, 23 x 30 cm, 2009
“Passing in the Night”, oil pastel on paper, 23 x 30 cm, 2008
“Night Siding”, oil pastel on paper, 23 x 30 cm, 2009
“Dawn Arrival”, oil pastel on paper, 23 x 30 cm, 2009
“Supporting the Dawn”, oil pastel on paper, 30 x 23 cm, 2008
“Morning Train into Vancouver “, oil on hardboard, 61 x 71 cm, 2008
Moving This Way and That
I have often used camera motion during a long exposure to create an abstract photo. I recently took some of these photos one evening in downtown Edmonton and discovered after the fact that I have used a good variety of camera motions for different effects.
Dance in the Distance
Cycles of Light
Towers of Dripping Light
Side Step
Scratchy
December Magic (part 2)
More magical long exposure photos from the dark days of December:
Blue Path Purple Sky
Path on the Edge
Lights into the Bend
Bus Shelter
Into the Winter Night
See December Magic (part 1) for more similar images.
Saturation in the Night
Here in the first week of December, there doesn’t seem to be much color in the landscape but not much doesn’t mean none. Here are a series of images created today – mostly four second hand-held exposures with kicked up color saturation and contrast in the post-processing.
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Blue Moon 2
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Friday Night Frights
Something a little different today. I have continued with my experiment from yesterday – of using a very slow (1 second) shutter speed and “painting” with light.
What I found on my camera tonight were a number of images that I find a little bit disturbing – unsettling is perhaps a better word. Some are colorful, playful and interesting but somehow they seem like something out of a bad dream – Welcome to my nightmare…
Twilight Cascade
Take the Bridge
The Tangle in the Night
Light Storm
Bad Dream
How do these images make you feel? What quality (or lack thereof) do you think accounts for the feeling?
7 Favorite Photos
Here are seven of my favorite photos taken in the last week – the end of January into the first few days of February. Over these days the weather in Edmonton has changed from wind chills below -30C to mild sunny days with temperatures of +5. On the cold days I had no choice but to take photos with my Nikon DSLR but on the warm days I was able to break out (and most importantly operate it with my bare hands) my iPhone.
Cold and Busy
China Gate Lion
Blue Shakes
Golden Horizon
Branches
Puddles in the Alley
Light Arc
Color in a Cold Dark City
Consider this part two of my presentation of photos taken on the cold snowy night of January 14th in downtown Edmonton. In a previous post I shared 7 black and white photos from that evening. In this post we look at color photos, although admittedly in some images the colors are pretty subtle.
Trees, Signs and Lights in a Snowstorm
Some Kind of Snow Monster?
Fighter
Snow Booth
Stairwell
Lights at the Corner
Lonely Bike Rack
Jasper Avenue Southside
Snow on the Wires, Snow on the Windows
Lamp and Snow Mounds
Snow Load
Silver Winter Nights
We’ve had a couple of days of warmer weather recently (I’m talking about the minus single digits Celsius) so I was able to do some outdoor iPhoneography. I have been doing photography with my Nikon in recent weeks since I can operate it with gloves on my hands but I’ve kind of missed working with the iPhone. The challenge of course is that the iPhone screen (on which the “virtual shutter button” lies) can only be operated with an ungloved finger. I can’t leave my hand exposed for too long but at these temperatures I can pop it in and out of the pocket of my parka just long enough to get a photo.
I’ve been exploring a new (to me) app: CameraBag. It features a number of treatments of photos which reminds me somewhat of what I can do with the Hipstamatic app. The big plus with CameraBag is that treatment can be applied to an image stored in the library and one can easily flip through the different filters after the fact.
One CameraBag treatment I’ve grown to like, particularly for winter nighttime photos is the “Silver” option. This option does offer a number of color tints but I like the blue for these winter shots. Here are three photos from last night (2010 Dec 14), in downtown Edmonton, in a moderately heavy snow, using CameraBag Silver:
Winter Fence and Shadow
Snowy Street
Tree - Trunk
I did adjust the contrast and brightness a bit on this last photo using PSMobile after taking it with CameraBag
Garages at Night
Some more black and white night images – of a couple of lovely old garages in my neighborhood.
An (almost) dark back alley
Winter Night and Lights
Here are three black and white photos from this evening:
Lights in the Valley
Walking Home on a Cold Winter Night
Rowland Road and Dawson Bridge
Black and White in the Night
Earlier today I was thinking to myself that even though I’ve lugging a camera around with me in the dark late afternoon/early evenings, I am just not finding, not creating anything interesting . Well I may have had a bit of a breakthrough this night (well actually just after 6PM). I like what I captured, especially after converting to black and white:
The Bend in Alex Taylor Road
Two Street Lights
Rowland Road
Shadow on the Snow
Glow Across the Road
Down a Deserted Rowland Road
Night on 92nd Street
Night Light on the Alley
Arcs of Abstraction
These photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D80 at 1600 ASA and processed with Nikon Capture NX2.
Randall Talbot - Artist 