Archive for the ‘Urban’ Category
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
This is a panorama of Irving Oil’s Saint John Refinery located in Saint John, New Brunswick. This is Canada’s largest oil refinery according to Irving. The refinery is truly massive and took 6 images to capture this image.
The six images were shot hand-held and were stitched together in photoshop using automatic adjustments. The resulting panorama was converted to grayscale in Lightroom and slight toning adjustments were made for contrast.
The image above is shown using Microsoft’s Seadragon technology. Scroll and pan inside the image to reveal more detail. You can see my images here
Tags: industrial, irving, Monochrome, oil, panorama, saint john, seadragon, Travel
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
I took a walk around uptown Saint John New Brunswick today, as the sun peaked out of the clouds for a brief few moments. I’ve been here for a couple of weeks on business, but this was the first time I’ve had a chance to take any photos of my surroundings. I’m here for another 2-3 months, so there will be more to come. I’m hoping to get out and see more of my home province and the Maritimes and the great scenery it has to offer.
I don’t do a lot of selective colouring, but I felt that this image needed some spice. Let me know what you think.
P.S. That is a huge snow bank in front of the church. This city has had a huge amount of snow this winter!
P.P.S. The title has been changed from “St Andrew & St David Church” to the proper name of “Trinity Anglican Church”
Tags: Architecture, church, new brunswick, saint john, Selective Colour, snow, Travel
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
The Chrysler Building in New York City as seen from the observation deck on the Empire State Building (taken back in June 2008). I was playing around with split toning and thought this gave the image a nice warm and historic tone.
The image is actually a panorama made from three shots of the building and stitched using Photoshop CS4 (which does a lovely job if I might add). Although this blog won’t do it justice, the level of detail in the image is superb, and I’m definitely going to be shooting more panoramas in the future.
Edit: I’ve embedded Microsoft’s Seadragon viewer so you can click and scroll inside the image to see more detail.
Tags: Architecture, chrysler building, manhattan, monocrhome, New York City, panorama, seadragon, split tone, Travel, Urban
Posted in Architecture, Monochrome, Travel, Urban | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
It seems I have run out of new photos to post today, which I’m going to attribute to the fact that it’s winter and I haven’t really been inspired to do any shooting lately (or at least nothing that I’d bother sharing here on RAWpixels). Not to worry though, as I apparently still have a lot of interesting shots from 2008 that I can share, like this one from New York city.
This is the arch in New York City’s Washington Square park. When I was there in June, it seemed that every landmark or tourist attraction I went to was under some form of renovation. I think this image sums up my trip pretty well.
Tags: Architecture, fence, Monochrome, New York City, Travel, Urban
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