Plonqie Pictures

[plonq]

Mother nature is (so far) giving us a beautiful autumn - perhaps as a belated apology for such a sucky summer. After work today we drove down to The Forks and dallied around for a bit before going for sushi. As luck would have it, atara had the camera along, which is good because it was one of those particularly photogenic days that only come along once in a while.

This is the Esplanade Riel. I've posted pictures of it here before but the colours were particularly crisp today.

Here is another view of the bridge. While it has been the object of derision by both locals and visiting dignitaries alike, most of us think that it is a very nice addition to the city. It's really quite striking.

Here is my lame attempt at being "artsy"

Here is a shot from the pedestrian bridge looking south along the river.

We pulled over on the way home to catch this shot of the trees across the river. The sun was catching them just right and the colours were amazing. The trees don't turn a lot of different colours here (mostly just yellow), but it's still quite pretty in its own way.

Same picture again with a slightly different exposure and angle.

I just love what the polarizer does to the colours in a picture.

And finally... oh my! Is that a colour other than yellow? Is that tree lost?

Comments

[fetlock.livejournal.com]

Wow now that camra is really good.
the pics of Winnipeg are so nice i had to save them to put up as a wall paper.

-Fetlock

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Both the camera and the photographer, I have a similar camera and I could never take such great pics

[fetlock.livejournal.com]

with this reply your going to flater the Snowkitty. LOL

I bet you have taken excelent pics with your camra aswell.

me well i got a small old Cam and it dos not compair to this stuff and yours.

my pic on the side was taken by this camra of my fursuit Sinistar and look at him hes such a ham. LOL

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I did some modest tweaking in Photoshop after I got home. When I was pulling the pictures off the card, I noticed that they all had a lot of digital noise and on closer inspection I noticed that the camera was locked at 400 ISO. As a result, the pictures were all grainy, with slightly washed-out colours.

I ran them through a despeckle filter (you might notice that a couple of them are lacking some of the finer details), and I bumped the saturation up a couple of notches to compensate for the higher ISO.

[fuzzytoedcollie.livejournal.com]

Waaaah! Your leaves are changing already. Mine are still all green and such.
*sigh*
Lovely pictures!!! Thanks for sharing them with us :)

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Yours probably turn nicer colours than ours, though. Ours turn, well, yellow.

[funos.livejournal.com]

What's that round structure?

And the polarizer must be why the sky is partially black on the first pic....
makes things look as if the altitude is high and the air thin.

[plonq.livejournal.com]

The round area is part of the Oodena Celebration Circle. It sits at the bottom of a grassy bowl, apparently at the level of of the original 3000-year-old native campsites. It's surrounded by stone monoliths (like the two that can be seen in the picture). The armatures on those monoliths are for naked-eye astronomy; at various points in the year, you can stand in the centre of the circle and the holes on the armatures will line up with different stars. The middle of the circle opens up to become a firepit for various native ceremonies. I should really get back there for a night shot some day because it's pretty neat when it's all lit up.

The darkening of the sky is caused by the polarizer. Another effect of the polarizer is that it tends to bring out clouds that wouldn't otherwise show in a picture. Depending on the angle of the sun, and the direction that you take the picture, it can have virtually no effect on the sky, to turning it almost black like you can see in a couple of the pictures. Also depending on the angle of the light it can really bring out the colours in other parts of the picture - but again, that depends on the time of the day and the angle of the light (and the phase of the moon, and...) It's also very handy for adjusting the reflections in water until they look about right.

[phar.livejournal.com]

It's almost pretty enough to forgive the chilly August and snow earlier this week. :)

-Whitewater