Mar 23
Jan Paul had to visit his sister who lives in the city of Breda. It’s been a while since I was there, and we’d planned to shoot some pictures after the visit. It was pretty cold, and I shot a few pictures, but the scenery sucked compared to the rest of the week.
Oh well, it can’t all be a party.
I thought that this picture of castle Bouvigne was the better one of the bunch (too bad it was closed, I would’ve loved to visit it’s English, German and French garden).
I imported the RAW of the picture below in two stages, one sharpened, one extremely blurred. The picture itsself already had a shallow depth of field. I put one in a layer over the other, then used a mask to combine the blurry background with the sharp latern.
The sign warns that the ice is dangerous. I guess a few weeks of freezing just doesn’t help covering some dodgy moats with ice.
Tagged with: blur • bouvigne • castle • DOF • ice • shallow DOF • winter
Nov 13
Last week I wiped the proverbial dust off my Nikon F100, loaded up some Neopan that was supposed to be used up by may 2007, put a 28mm lens on it and a red filter, then walked around Leiden snapping pictures during the whole week.
Today I got the negatives back (I know, I’m a lazy bum because I dont want to develop the film myself-well it serves me right that the fu…errr..darn thing is scratched 
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I scanned in the ones that looked most promising, and I think this wall looks pretty cool. It’s probably from between 1600 and 1800′s by the looks of it. I love the grain, the contrast.It’s a good oppertunity to get rid of the loads of film that occupy the bottom drawer of my fridge.
Tagged with: B&W • black and white • crumbling wall • f/2.8 • Fuji Neopan • high ISO • ISO 1600 • Leiden • Nikkor 28mm • Nikon F100 • shallow DOF • wall
