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Photo Of The Day - December 2020
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Carolina wren. I think building a nest under my air conditioning compressor. He may have a chipmunk for a neighbor.
Went the opposite way today, almost the way it came from the camera. Pulley on a cable Ferry near Nelson, BC
Digital photography gurus check out "Earth At Night" on Apple TV, nature documentary series all shot at night with extremely sensitive cameras and lenses. Footage is incredible, color is normal looking. Chance to see animals never seen during the day. I would post a sample, but got yelled at last time because it wasn't my photo. Many of us have struggled with low light photos, this will amaze you. They show you at the end how they shot certain scenes, and the equipment they use.
Oh yes, the geese! Do you guys also have a love/hate relationship with them? Like, they are great up in the air, but when they descend on you with all the poop and aggressive behavior? Like, my tax dollars pay for cleaning up after you guys! 😄
I will keep it on this topic, and share one from a year ago. This was taken in September in the Canadian Arctic. Great hike, no people this time of the year since it's starting to get cold (not too much really, just around +5/-5 ºC). Winter is coming. And these geese are always flying North. Every time. Where do they go? I'd see a flock every once in a while, and always they go north, and I keep yelling that it's the wrong way, and they obviously don't listen.
I wanna go again.
Looks like a painting! Very nice. How did you get the grain effect?
Thank you! I was out on my deck shooting the geese in the rain, using my RX10 M4, and there were a lot of geese with lots of honking, splish-splashing and activity going on. These two geese had just taken off from further down the lake and I looked up just in time to see them right overhead, so started firing away....
I first reviewed and edited the image in DxO PhotoLab 4, decided that this would be a good candidate for B&W conversion, and then used Silver Efex from the NIK Collection 3, which is a plug-in. After looking through a few of the presets on offer decided I liked the grainy effect the best. In the original image the sky was simply a blank, boring grey, even though it was actually lightly raining at the time. I decided that the grainy effect, although not rain, at least was more interesting than the blank grey sky had been. I also adjusted contrast and shadows a bit more there as well, since the lighting situation was already so poor it wasn't as though I was going to be able to present good detail in the feathers and eyes, etc.
Yes, much of the year we have at least some Canada geese in residence, and while it's fine during the majority of the time, when they're hanging out in the lake, it's not so fine when they get out of the water and go wandering around on the walking path that goes partway around the lake, or the boardwalk that goes the remainder of the way! They're indeed messy and one has to really watch when walking. Yuck! At times, yes they can be aggressive, especially in the spring when there are goslings to be protected and Daddy takes charge while Mummy shelters the wee ones. One spring some years ago I was able to spend quite a lot of time shooting the goslings from right after they'd hatched throughout their infancy and toddlerhood before they began morphing into the awkward adolescent stage that precedes their final emergence into adulthood. That was so much fun!
I first reviewed and edited the image in DxO PhotoLab 4, decided that this would be a good candidate for B&W conversion, and then used Silver Efex from the NIK Collection 3, which is a plug-in. After looking through a few of the presets on offer decided I liked the grainy effect the best. In the original image the sky was simply a blank, boring grey, even though it was actually lightly raining at the time. I decided that the grainy effect, although not rain, at least was more interesting than the blank grey sky had been. I also adjusted contrast and shadows a bit more there as well, since the lighting situation was already so poor it wasn't as though I was going to be able to present good detail in the feathers and eyes, etc.
Yes, much of the year we have at least some Canada geese in residence, and while it's fine during the majority of the time, when they're hanging out in the lake, it's not so fine when they get out of the water and go wandering around on the walking path that goes partway around the lake, or the boardwalk that goes the remainder of the way! They're indeed messy and one has to really watch when walking. Yuck! At times, yes they can be aggressive, especially in the spring when there are goslings to be protected and Daddy takes charge while Mummy shelters the wee ones. One spring some years ago I was able to spend quite a lot of time shooting the goslings from right after they'd hatched throughout their infancy and toddlerhood before they began morphing into the awkward adolescent stage that precedes their final emergence into adulthood. That was so much fun!
What a view! It looks just like one of the landscapes/mountains in the interior of Alaska, except that we already have several inches of snow on the ground.
Part of a local yard display, which I have named Inverted Christmas Tree. The inability of the tiny CMOS sensor to handle greens is rather obvious. The 1/4 second shutter speed also a bit of a handicap, although camera was solidly braced.
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Another old Lensbaby Transformer shot...
Cheers
Hugh
Cheers
Hugh
The first photo I took with ProRAW, off my balcony. I would love some feedback if possible.
Thank you!
Thank you!
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Roller coaster track really is massive when you get up close to it!!
