Camp 30 - Part II

To the friends who I shared the first blog entry with, thank you for your comments and support.

I have added a few enhancements to the design of these blogs, like the picture as a banner above, and an email sign-up link on the right side.  If you sign up using that feature, you will automatically receive a link to my future blog entries when they are posted.  Hopefully I will have something worthwhile to show you every week or two.

If you are seeing this blog for the first time and don't know what Camp 30 is, check the earlier postings by clicking on the April Archives on the right side of this page.

Now on to those black & white images from Camp 30 I promised.

This was taken in the dining hall.  I really like the tonal range and the "grittiness" of the image.

This image was taken in one of the residence buildings. Again, I like the tonal range and "grittiness".

On a technical note, the colour images from my earlier post were processed as 5 shot HDR's using Nik's HDR Efex Pro.  These black and white images were processed using Nik's Silver Efex Pro 2 from the colour HDR files.  I compared these to a black & white conversion from a single image, and these were much more dynamic.

On a lighter note, Joe in our camera club is a huge fan of "painting with light", so this one is a tribute to him.  These bathroom stalls were nearly pitch black, but the technique is really quite simple. Start with a long exposure, say 15 seconds, and a small aperture, say f16. Then use a flashlight to "paint" in the areas you want to illuminate.  (Doesn't everyone carry a flashlight in their camera bag?). Very fun project to try.  I think Ron is convinced to get a flashlight for his camera bag.

There were many more images taken at Camp 30, these are only a few.  Take a look at my smugmug gallery here for more images from Camp 30.

Stay tuned for images from this weekend's trip.  Don't forget to sign up for future blog entries.

Thanks for following...

Mark

The Start of Something New

As all of you know, I'm pretty heavily into photography, and active with the Richmond Hill Camera Club. And I love showing my work to all of my friends.

As you can imagine, it has become time consuming to send individual emails and include photos, or add a link to my website galleries, trying to remember who was sent what??? Did I forget someone??? So I decided to try writing a blog.

Hopefully you will find this blog interesting, please add comments on what you find interesting, or not so much.

Here are a couple from the weekend.  My good friend Ron and I visited Camp 30, looking for places for future field trips for the camera club.  Camp 30 was a school in Bowmanville Ontario that was converted in the second world war (WWII) into a German Prisoner of War camp.  Right here in Canada!!!  Britain shipped their German POW's here, so that there was little or no chance of the prisoners being freed, only to return to fighting in the war.

After the war Camp 30 was returned to being a school, and has changed hands several times.  It was eventually abandoned in the 1990's.

An absolutely outstanding location for photography, and only an hour from home. 

I hope you enjoy these photos...

This was the dining hall, a big, bright room with very interesting architecture. Not to mention the really cool graffiti.

This was the swimming pool, with a gymnasium across the hallway.

There are many more buildings on the site, this was taken in one of the residence buildings.

Lots more Camp 30 photos over the next few days....