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Behind The Lens
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This photo almost never happened. I was out on a long walk, as you do, looking for something interesting to shoot. After two hours worth of aimless and fruitless walk I was about to give up and head home. On the way back I reached a fork on the road. I always took the easy straight road but for some reason I decided to take the long road instead. A minute in I froze. That was it. What I've spent the whole day looking for. Five minutes away from home on the other side of the Tyne River, the beautiful snaking of the road was just the perfect ending for a long day!Time
It was late afternoon just before the golden hour as the sun was about to set.Lighting
Since it was a random encounter it was completely up to luck that the sun was setting!Equipment
The shot was taken with my beaten Panasonic G3 (it survived 2 and a half pints of lager poured over it, clumsy bartender) and the beautifully compact Panasonic 14mm f2.5 prime (seriously the combo is amazing for street photography)Inspiration
The inspiration was completely of the moment. I saw the road as it unfolded and in that instance I knew it was perfect for selective colouring, the yellow lines were in perfect contrast to the black asphalt!Editing
I first did some basic editing in Lightroom and then passed the image to Photoshop to do the black and white conversion and the extraction of the yellow colour of the lanes.In my camera bag
Well there are three items I never leave the house without, like ever. The lens: Olympus's 12 to 40mm f2.8 pro. That lens is ridiculously amazing. It's sharp, bright and heavy and oh yes weather sealed! It's perfect for most every situation. The grip. I've been using the HLD-7 grip pretty much since I bought my camera. It doubles the battery allows for awesome portrait photography and it's pretty much never off my camera. The final piece of the puzzle is also the most awesome. The Olympus EM-1 is an amazing camera. The speed is amazing and battery life is really good and the wireless connectivity a great bonus. But the most mind boggling aspect of the camera is the stabilization. Oh the stabilization is pure magic. I've been able to take handheld shots of up to a 1/4th of a second and that's with my caffeine fuelled hands. It's really a thing of beauty!Feedback
I'm really an amateur in photography so I'm probably one of the last people you should ask for advice but I'll do my best. Go for it. Just take the shot. You see something that clicks in your head then just shoot it. Capture the image on your SD card and on your mind and then try to match them up. In this instance I just saw the scene in black and white and the yellow lines popping out. It then took about an hour's worth of work to bring the photograph on the same level as the scene I had in my mind. I'm not 100% sure what I said makes sense to everyone else or just me but hey I warned you!
