Weekly Photo Projects, Week 40

Week 40: Lyrically Inspired
Blinding Lights
The theme for +Project 52 B&W was Lyrically Inspired. You remember back in class when you would be assigned to write some essay that you thought was stupid? That was my thinking on this. AND! And it involved more work because you had to find a song that would work for a photo. Or you could shoot a photo and find a song, but still, it's a two step process. So I found a song that I really (see video below) and thought I'd find a photo that worked for it. Please note I said "find" and not "shoot". To the archives I went. This shot of San Francisco worked just nicely. In the conversion I played up the contrast, pumped up the whites and got some blinding lights for U2's City of Blinding Lights.


Week 40: Colors
Angelic Colors
I wasn't having any inspiration hit me photographically. Sure the ABC Project was easy enough, but I didn't know what I was going to shoot for +Weekly Photo Project 2013 and our theme of Colors. Or Colours. So I grabbed this quick shot here. I rattled of some HDR brackets just in case too, and glad I did so I could play with Photomatix Pro 5 beta. Not really the best set of brackets to kick the tires of a new program, but I got to see the new interface (kinda simplified) and the new presets, which are actually useful.


You can view my Weekly Photo Project album here.
My black & white project album here.

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