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

[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.