Project 365 - Day 36

Last one from the abstract serie. I know I could have posted sooner, but I'm really busy, and it's not always easy for me to post my pictures on a daily basis. I'm really sorry about that, I hope you understand, the good point for you is that there's a lot of new pictures incoming, you just nedd to be patient ! ;-)

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Project 365 - Day 35

Another one from the abstract photography serie that I took. On this one, I worked more on the geometric composition. I also decided to go for a high key style picture, making the lines and colours really pop out.

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Project 365 - Day 34

Second abstract shot from abstract serie playing with colored inks and waters. I really like this one, because of its abstract look and its regular circle. It makes me think of an eye, some people told me that it looked like a strange door opened on the galaxy. I'm happy to see that everyone has its own interpretation of this picture. I think that's one of my best abstract shot so far. The only thing that I would change next time I try this kind of picture, is that I'd use a polarizing filter to prevent having my reflection appearing in the water (you can actually see my hand on this one...)

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Project 365 - Day 33

I was willing to experiment with ink in water photography. Unfortunately for me, the experiment didn't turned out so well, and the results were not those I expected to have. I think mostly because my water container was round, transforming the water in a giant lens, making it impossible to get a sharp picture of the inks in the water. So I decided to adapt myself to the situation and transformed my failure in some abstract shot (yes, once again,... ;-) ). As I was a bit late on my project 365 planning, I took different kind of pictures. This is one of them, I'll post the others a bit later.

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Project 365 - Day 30

Belgium and its well known weather. I'm quite frustrated not being to go outside because of the continuous rain. Well, I admit I could be a bit more courageous, but this kind of weather is very depressing. I was looking at the window and saw all these little droplets. They were like a thousand of little lens reflecting the outside world upside down. At least, it gave me the opportunity to take this shot...

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Project 365 - Day 29

The other day, my daughter was making a cake with my wife. She called me and showed me what she was doing and said: "look how it's nice, why don't you take a picture of it ?" So I decided to take a photograph of it for my project 365.

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Project 365 - Day 28

Still giving a try at abstract shots. This one was taken while I was aboard a car (please take note that I was not driving !). The night was falling and I tried several shots to capture the lights of the cars while on the highway. This is the one that turned out to be the best of the serie...

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Project 365 - Day 26

I've been very sick recently and spent a good week in bed, so I didn't really had the opportunity to take shots and/or post pictures, but here's another one. It's another abstract shot, I'm really beginning to like doing abstract shots !

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Project 365 - Day 25

I was at a gas station the other day. While filling my car, I was looking at the pump. The sun was reflecting on the metal, and I liked the texture and the colors of the metal. I thought I could try a close-up shot of the metal with the three pumps aligned. Well, here's the result, not too bad, but not too good either in my opinion...

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Project 365 - Day 23

I'm taking the opportunity that it's cold to make "cold" pictures. Winter can really draw nice patterns on water and glass. I saw this on a window and tried to capture it to make a nice abstract shot. These patterns always amaze me and my daughter is always angry when we scratch them to see through the windows, she finds these really beautiful....

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Project 365 - Day 22

Looks like winter is finally taking its quarters here in Belgium. The car was totally frozen a morning. As the sky was blue trhat day, it gaves a nicely blue tint to my car. I went for a close-up shot, very minimalistic and almost abstract of the bodywork of the car and a part of a window. The more I look at it, the more I find it looking like a very big close-up of an insect eye.

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Project 365 - Day 21

This is another abstract shot. I was experimenting with a thing called zoom close-up, which I bought on a flea market. This little optic piece has to be screwed on the lens, and allow you to get in focus at 10cm of your subject. This has nothing to do with macro, because if you use it with a wide angle lens, you'll still get the wide angle effect but you can get as close as 10cm of your subject. It gives a lot of creative opportunities. Another effect of this thing is that it soften a little the shots you do with it. I used it with my 50mm 1.4 lens wide open for this shot. The things that looks like bubbles are in fact holes. The iron surface is lit by the daylignt coming through a window, and the orange colour in the holes comes from a lamp that was lit above it. I really like how these holes look like small bubbles !

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Project 365 - Day 20

Sometimes, I really have bad ideas. Let me tell about this one: I wanted to take a picture while driving my car. Not that I particularly wanted to do that, but I wanted to get a shoot from a car that was travelling. The problem is that I was alone so I was the driver. A very bad idea and I don't recommend you to do that. Fortunately for ma, I didn't had an accident. My goal was to try to capture the movement of the car while having the car in front of me sharp. I tried several times, but wasn't satisfied by the result, it's quite difficult, to keep the camera still while focusing on the car in front of me and keeping the same speed as it, all this while driving ! Finally, I tried to shot perpendicularly through my window instead of the windscreen, and this picture is the result ! Not so bad after all... ;-)

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Project 365 - Day 17

Winter seems to finally come to Belgium. The ground was frozen this morning. I went in my garden and tried to capture the frozen grass in the morning sun. I found a small red leaf that I took as the main subject. I found it interesting to have both a contrast between the sun and the frozen grass as well as having a contrast of colours between the red of the lonely tree leaf and the green of the grass.

For those interested, I've added new sets of pictures on my urbex photography website.

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Project 365 - Day 16

I'm really beginning to like taking abstract shots of things. It gives a lot of opportunity to try different things. So here's another "abstract" picture. I took this one because I liked the repetition of the circular pattern. Geometric shapes can be really inspiring !

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Project 365 - Day 15

Early in the morning, I was looking by the window. There was mist outside, and I thought it was looking nice with the lights. I was a little lazy and didn't took my tripod and tried to take a picture. All my shots were blurry, so I decided to make a voluntary long exposure shot that would look abstract. I took this shot with a speed of about 2 seconds, and as soon as I pushed the trigger, I moved my camera, getting nice trails of light.

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Project 365 - Day 10

I've taken this picture while I was waiting for my wife at the station. It's been raining all the day and I was sitting in the car. I had been on an urbex trip all day long and I was quite tired. While I was wondering what I would shot for my today's picture, I looked at  the rain sliding on the windscreen of the car. I had my camera on the rear seats. I grabbed it, and took this shot.

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Project 365 - Day 7

I didn't had time this week-end to post the pictures for my project 365, so here's the one that I take on saturday. I went to see a friend and he showed me the terrain he had bought: a small wood with a pond in the middle of it. I had my old Nikon D3000 with only the 50mm 1.4 argentic lens mounted on it. I took this picture of the trees reflecting on the still water.

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Project 365 - Day 5

Today was a really tough day for my 365 project. I've spent the morning doing urbex in an abandoned train station. The weather was really hostile: little rain and heavy wind blowing. While returning home, I wanted to take a picture of a paper factory along a canal as my picture of the day. The reason I wanted to take this shot is that I wanted to make a long exposure of the factory with heavy clouds above it. I had brought my ND filter with me so I could go for a 30 seconds shot, capturing the clouds as they were moving. When I arrived there, along the canal, the wind was really  really violent. I put my camera on the tripod and tried to get that long exposure shot, but the wind was blowing so strong that even on the tripod, the camera was slightly moving, making all my pictures blurry and unusable.

Back at home, I was wondering what I could shot as my picture of th day, and I saw my desk lamp lighting the wall. I thought it could make an interesting grahic composition. And now, that's the picture you're looking at today. I really like how the 365 project makes you look at the surrounding world to find pictures !

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Project 365 - Day 4

There's an old chapel in the wood not far from where I live. I never had the chance to go look at it, but today I decided that it would be a good opportunity for my photographic 365 days project to go check it out. The chapel is very nice and has been built in 1740 if I believe the date written on it. Unfortunately for me, it was closed and by a big wooden door. I was very impressed by the big lock on the door and took it as the subject of my today's picture.

For those more interested about my urbex pictures, I've added a new gallery on my website about an abandoned veterinary school also known as "Horror labs". You can see it on my photography website.

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