This is the end

This is the end, a photo by fangleman on Flickr.

Beautiful friend.
The end.

It is no more. The tough camera that went everywhere and did everything with me. My constant and reliable photography companion, has passed on.

It shows the scars of my influence. It has proudly displayed the scratches, dents, missing pieces, and lost color. It showed the world the hot pixels it developed, and spoke to anyone who cared to ask, about how it was ready for more adventure.

It showed us all what tough meant, never complaining, never tiring. It dived in the oiceans, and flew in the sky. It braved the snow and fell from places high. It was exactly what it said it was, until the end. Tough. Waterproof. Crushproof. Freezeproof.

We'll miss you.

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PHOTO RECIPE:

I placed the Olympus 1030SW into a white plastic container, and poured water onto the caemera. I used on camer flash, because it was there and I had no energy to get a strobe. I shot the on camera flash through a frosty plastic pitcher to diffuse the flash for a few shots, and some I used a white plate as a reflector for fill.

Import raw file into CS5, crop, adjust curves, etc.
The end.

Then it left, as quickly as it came.

Then it left, as quickly as it came., a photo by fangleman on Flickr.

"This" he said, "is my town."

"This" he said, "is my town.", a photo by fangleman on Flickr.

2 shots combined, one above the other - a vertical panorama in a way. Very little other editing even to exposure. Simple handlheld P&S.

The view is across the courtyard of the El Convento Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Note the church at the top right, where Juan Ponce de León lays in death, the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista.

Paradise, lost?

Paradise, lost?, a photo by fangleman on Flickr.

Somewhere in San Juan, PR...

At first look, I didn't like this image much. The more I have looked at it, the more I like it. In fact, things that I considered faults or negatives at first, I am finding are actually postive and good aspects to the image.

Certainly, I'd like to have taken it with my good glass and Canon 40D for better image wuality, but overall the image quality isn't all that bad. Perhaps a little photo editing to give it an old anf low quality film camera look would be beneficial? Maybe....but low-fi digital cameras have their own certain special quality...

Stairs again? Oh yeah...

Stairs again? Oh yeah..., a photo by fangleman on Flickr.

(HDR) Explorer of the Seas in Bermuda

(HDR) Explorer of the Seas in Bermuda, a photo by fangleman on Flickr.

A faked HDR from a single JPEG.
4 different HDR treatments layered in photoshop.

Taken from aboard the Caribbean Princess

She knew it would be a night to remember.

She knew it would be a night to remember., a photo by fangleman on Flickr.

This is SOOC - Straight out of camera. No editing at all.

A nice night shot from inside the El Convento courtyard. This is about west to north west. Our rooom was on the side of the hotel shown on the left of this image.

I used the nightshot setting on my 1030SW P&S, and rested the camera on a raling.

I love the clouds and light quality here. The round windows, and placing the corner off center.