Finally I feel good enough to start getting out more! Today was a long, rainy day and I had that urge to get out and enjoy the weather. I absolutely love rainy days, I love that atmosphere and the colours that are heightened from the artificial lighting and reflections all around. And of course it's even more fun with the beautiful colours of autumn really picking up. I opted for the 35mm lens on the Canon AE-1 for these, with a mist filter which gave everything a bit more softness. I always love how the mist filter impacts an image, especially on days with lots of beautiful light.
These were from the park nearby, I walked around just a few hours before sunset and enjoyed the colours around. It was raining at the time but not too much, it remained tolerable enough to walk around without the camera getting wet. Not many people were around, which is a fairly common aspect of rainy days here in Armenia. Armenians absolutely hate rain, you'll see people avoiding rain as much as possible. This for me makes the parks more fun, it's quieter, more free. More silent around for me to enjoy the peace and get a feeling of that atmosphere that is often lingering within such environments: large Soviet structures and designs. The feeling of a lost world. All with the beauty of falling leaves around.
I went for a more Aerochrome look for these, while they're shot digitally, I wanted to mimic the film stock style that is really beautiful for natural shots. Though I didn't want so much of the Aerochrome's intense reds and pinks. Only one of the images I didn't mind it so much for, where the reds and pinks compliment the park's large columns that wrap around the central part. I think this is one of the most beautiful parks I have seen in and around Yerevan. It has such a charm to it that others don't have. It feels old, beautiful, and still rather natural without too much of today's minimalist influence, albeit for the benches.
I actually really liked how these came out in the end. I don't really enjoy the editing process much, nor overdoing things, and sometimes that's really easy when it comes to tweaking colours so much that they become rather dominant in the image itself.