I don’t know how productive it will be but I’m practicing one-handed shooting with a point-and-shoot camera while taking my dog for his morning walk. So imagine me with a dog leash in one hand, the camera in the other and me being pulled in the middle. This was today’s capture.
Up Close
Cats and the Internet
What would the internet be without stuff like this?
Princess Pine in the Snow
To give you a sense of scale these little gals are about 3-4 inches high and seem utterly resistant to winter. This close-up does not show you how they tend to grow in patches. This particular forest has a beautiful area where these are everywhere. But if you walk a couple more minutes along the trail, there are no more to be seen.
In My Kitchen
This old scale has been in my family for years. I think it came from my mother’s side… Anyway, I have photographed it before. My best guess is that those other photos were taken back in 1990 when I was at RIT. Those photos were taken on a medium-format camera with Tri-X film.
This latest photo was taken with a digital camera (Panasonic FZ1000) and I chose to work with the RAW image format this time. I’m finding myself slowly warming up to RAW – but not ready to jump in with both feet yet – so I’m shooting both JPG and RAW at the same time. For reference here’s the JPG version of the same image. Extracting as much data/detail out of the shadows of the RAW was pretty cool. As you can see I also did some minor rotation and cropping to square-up the image.
Exposure on both JPG and RAW (technically .RW2 files) was:
f 3.4
1/1300 second
ISO 125
-0.7 exposure bias
Monarch Night
I shot this one back in the fall (Sept. 2015). It was a fun experiment seeing how long the Monarch would tolerate being held and photographed. The little guy was a great subject allowing me to play with all sorts of flash/drag-shutter images. You can see more in the FB gallery here.