Such a sunny day yesterday after work that I took myself on a meander around one of my favourite places, the victorian cemetry near my work place. Feeling a little inspired I got snapping with my camera trying to capture a little of the allure that so entices me to wander through the lichen bitten names of the long forgotten dead and buried.
I was a little disapointed with the results when I got home, my camera is very cheap and I still haven't worked out all the settings so many turned out blurred. But last night when I went through them again I decided they did have promise so with a little help from photoshop I managed to brighten them up a bit or in some cases completely distort the colours and I was quite pleased with the results.
posted by Moonpie at 4:37 PM
9 Comments:
Hello! I have followed you over from Rusty Pearl's site, and wanted to meet you. Great blog, and these pictures are wonderful! Who wouldn't want to wander through there, I wonder? You're lucky to have it close by. I am not exactly a Photoshop pro yet, but you have inspired me to mess around a little bit more with my own photos. Great stuff. Anyway, cheers from East Texas!
1:28 AM
Hello znglass!
Pleasure to meet you! I'm glad you enjoyed the photos and that I've inspired you to have a go with Photoshop. It is really good fun and quite easy. It's really handy if you have a crappy camera cause you can brighten up photos no end. For these I just used the 'Adjust Colour' and 'Adjust Brightness and contrast' functions in the 'Enhance' option on the toolbar.It's easy to work out just have a fiddle about, good luck with it. If you get stuck give me a shout and I'll see if I can help.
Cheers,
Moonpie
2:30 PM
Beautiful location.
I love the cemetery on Mansfield Road (near the Goose Fair site). It has this Victorian, "overgrown but cared for look". Maybe you know of it? I used to work near the one in West Bridgford, but being part of a crematorium, it always felt very odd.
I could happily sit here and read my Mary Shelley / Lord Byron books.
11:51 PM
You should be pleased with the results, these are wonderful pictures, so haunting and beautiful. My favorite is the Angel without the tip of it's nose.
I wish I knew how to do more with this computer....but, I keep getting booted off by the people I grew in my womb. Do you think it time I get my own computer??? Or make them go to bed earlier?
Anyway, thanks for your recent visit, I left you a there too, but don't remember what I wrote!
Stay well,
Sue
3:32 AM
Ian,
No I don't know Mansfield road, I did used to go to the goose fair when I was a kid but I can't really place it. These days my trips to Nottingham seem to just involve going to Selecta Discs (I love that shop!)or the Rescue Rooms for bands. I don't really know my way around other than getting to and from the train station.
I've never read any Byron or Mary Shelley. I've had Frankenstein on my 'to read' list for ages, about time I got round to it.
Sue,
Thanks, glad you like them. It is amazing what you can do with computers these days, things are moving so fast it's impossible to keep up. I have to use photoshop at work cause my home computer doesn't have the room to run it but there's been lots of talk between me and my boyfriend about getting a Mac Mini. That way we can get Photoshop, Imovies and Garage Band all of which are amazing programmes. Only trouble with that plan is that I'd never leave the house!
12:28 PM
Holy Crimson Moonpie, I love the way you captured light between the trees and then tweaked the image using Photoshop. I LOVE the flowers, the angel, the Celtic star (?). Really, I like the poetry in your lingo: the allure that so entices me and lichen bitten names. It's nice to see Spring everywhere, too. Ahh.
-g+bb
11:38 PM
Hi Moonpie,
What stunning photos, especially the way the light dances through. Whenever I am in London, I make sure I walk through Brompton's Cemetery. Not so much for the famed Beatrix Potter stuff, but for the beautiful stillness of the place and the Victorian stone statues and old fashioned headstones. I took a few Who girls through there the morning of the 2003 Who Convention, just to show them how beautiful it was, and we made friends with a squirrel. I'll try to dig them up and maybe post them on my blog sometime.
Anyhow, lovely pictures. They reminded me of Brompton's. I've got this thing for cemeteries in old cities.
Cheers,
AM
4:48 AM
Gina,
Hope your move is going well, it's good you have the light of the new moon to help it along.
The 'lichen bitten names' bit was actually borrowed from a Sylvia Plath poem, I'm not sure which one but that line really stuck in my head, it was also part of the inspiration for the photos I think.
Anne Marie,
I don't know of Bromptons I shall look it up. I've always wanted to visit Highgate Cemetery. It's looks really spooky though and with all the stories of vampires I may just end up running around it!
10:43 PM
Wow! These are great!
I'm uber impressed. We should pow-wow...I need some photos taken.
Tom.
4:45 PM
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