Thursday 13 May 2010

Blue-on-blue contacts needed

Went for a potter around the dunes at Balmedie (maplink) last Friday. It was a lovely evening and gave me an opportunity to try the circular filter with the Canon 40d. And my new HTC Desire smartphone. And give the sofa a chance to regain its shape.

Balmedie beach 070510

Looking southeastish towards Aberdeen (above), and east to the sea (below).

Balmedie beach 070510

Below: just playing with the new filter and trying not to burn out the camera’s sensor.

Balmedie beach 070510

Balmedie beach 070510

Balmedie beach 070510

Balmedie beach 070510

Mike had been describing the differences in the dune shapes since “The Planet” was filmed.

Balmedie beach 070510

Balmedie beach 070510

Close-up above taken with the Camera Zoom Fx app on the HTC Desire.

4 comments:

Ken555 said...

Whoooooo
Aktoman is back ;)

AktoMan said...

No promises, I'm afraid, Ken, but with my Digital Creator course finished, I get a few more weekends and evenings to myself. I've been keeping my wargames blog post updated at the club site:
http://aberdeenwargamesclub.com/?page_id=115

And if I post more Android stuff here, it'll offset Darren going on and on and on and on and on and on about iStuff. ;-)
http://whitespider1066.com

I should get some photos of some TGOc folk when I run through to deliver George's resupply pack. Peewiglet, et al.
http://londonbackpackers.blogspot.com

http://peewiglet.wordpress.com/

BG! said...

Good to see you out and about again, Duncan.

That third pic is a cracker.

AktoMan said...

It's not sharp enough for me, Stef. Difficult for me to judge when angling the camera slightly down to prevent sensor from looking directly at sun. I picked up a Hoya circular polarising filter, so the effects are all natural, apart from some raw balancing.