A journey of photographic adventure, Two Views was born by two friends having a blast and learning from each other on a photo shoot in the autumn sunshine, asking the question “How can we continue to push our photographic boundaries in terms of technical knowledge, new challenges and creativity and have fun at the same time?” The answer we came up with was to set ourselves a project every two weeks, and then publish the results together. Two Views of the same subject / idea or technical approach. By the end of this year we will have covered 26 subjects and produced at least 50+ awesome photographs, and have learned a huge amount along the way! We’d love your comments, critiques and ideas, and if you want to “play along” too, please do let us have your shots by links in the comments sections! TJ & The Brunette

Tuesday 1 November 2011

Datchet by TJ


It was difficult to choose a photo for the first post. I am still only beginning to get to grips with my new Lumix FZ-45 camera. The experience of photographing a beautiful village such as Datchet was exhilarating. Walking around on foot meant so much more could be discovered that ordinarily is missed when you go through such places in a vehicle. The shot I chose in the end was of an old lamppost in a walkway by the church. Both myself and Jules were immediately reminded of the lamppost in “The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe”. So I decided for my first photo to turn the picture from the camera into a version that reminded me of the lamppost in Narnia, obviously allowing for the fact that this lamppost was not in a forest and the path to it from this world was not through a wardrobe! J The changes I made to the photo were fairly straight forward. I turned the image sepia to give it a dated look, I softened the image and also tweaked the brightness and contrast and hey presto the image before you was formed. I have so much to learn, techniques to master and skills to develop, but I am pleased with this first effort.
Here are some of the other photos from the session including the unedited lamppost:


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