Charlie is a wonderful old Labrador Retriever. We’ve been hiking with him and his owner all winter long. No matter what the temperature was – as long as there was any open water – he would swim in a pond or wallow in a muddy puddle.
Tech notes: Not much to report. I did some light processing from the RAW (RW2) image and cropped it as well. One of these days I’ll probably shoot exclusively RAW but I’m not there yet in my workflow.
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
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.
I love guns. I am also a proud supporter of the 2A and member of the NRA. Now that’s out of the way, let’s move on to the photo.
This is really just a phone pic (Samsung Galaxy) but I just loved the lines of the rifle as it sat in shadow. If you’re interested in the shooting aspect of this photo please read about it here. BTW – the rifle is actually an air gun made by Diana of Germany. It is known as a RWS 34 in .177 caliber.
Back in day I photographed weddings. That was all long before digital cameras much less phones with cameras. So this photo says a lot about people, cameras and how people take photos.
Maybe I will come back and write more about this photo in the future but that’s all i have for now!
This photo is another phone pic. Just a quick snap but represents a really fun day out hiking with my family. I also think it was one of the 1st times we hiked with Jasper our little mutt.
