Time Immortal

On Easter Sunday, Grace’s grandfather and dad took us, along with two of Grace’s sisters, out for a drive/tour around Vancouver. We stopped, at one point, by a dock a little to the east of Stanley Park, not too far from Vancouver’s downtown area.

There was a fair bit of subject matter to shoot, including this row of cargo containers, which were literally right next to where we parked. I took the shot kind of haphazardly, holding the camera out over a half-height fence and chancing an unaimed photo; with a bit of cropping, it turned out really well.

Edit-wise, I played around with this photo for a while before deciding on how I wanted to present it, which turned out to be in its original form. I made two other versions of the picture, one in which only the red/orange shades are still coloured, and one in which only the blue shades remain. But while saturation adjustments were fun, I decided to post the original photo as the Pic of the Day.

It was a fairly cloudy day, and I found it a bit surprising that I had to shift the ISO to 200 in order to get good outdoor shots; usually, lightly-coloured clouds improve the lighting in a scene (or at least that has been my experience) because they diffuse the light. Not so today. Still, ISO 200 is pretty tame, and I only did a bit of noise reduction on this picture. I also boosted the orange, blue, and red saturations a little bit, to bring out the containers a bit more.