Photography

Being a rookie photographer I often make mistakes with my camera settings. Most of the time I don’t let it bother me and I adjust and retake the shot. There are occasions where I do get a bit upset with my bungled settings because I know I likely won’t be back to that spot again in the near future or they have caused me to miss a candid/action shot. Below is an example of one of those moments. It is a sunset shot from our trip to Massachusetts where I had the settings all wrong. After looking through my photos from the trip I was frustrated that I didn’t try a bit harder to create a better image.

ashburham sunset_1.jpg — Shot with my Canon 7d Mark II and Canon 18-55 kit lens

Thankfully all was not lost and smarter people than me were able to create programs that can help beginners create a usable end result even when we fail with our camera settings. Below is the image after some work in Adobe Lightroom. It is certainly not perfect and I won’t be printing it large due to the noise in the lower half of the image but it is presentable and provides me with a decent image to remember the trip by. It is amazing how much detail I was able to recover. This also shows my improving skills with Lightroom. There is no way I would have ended up with this result when I first started with the program. I am enjoying finding and learning how to use all the tools Lightroom offers. Now I just need to get everything right in camera so that I don’t have to work so hard in post.

ashburham sunset.jpg — Thank God for photo editing software!

Floating

One of the rare times where Oshie actually wanted to run around while I had the camera out.

Shot with my Canon 7d Mark II and 50mm f/1.8 lens.

December 5, 2016 2

Fetch

A game that doesn’t last long when played with Oshie unless we are at the beach and that is only because it is an excuse to get in the water.

Shot with my Canon 7d Mark II and Canon 50mm f/1.8

December 5, 2016 2

Learning Tricks

Oshie is a fast learner. A little repetition with coupled with a reward and he will do almost anything you want him to. Nancy taught him how to play dead in just a few tries a few months ago. He doesn’t get it every time and sometimes he gets so excited that he goes through every trick he knows before actually doing the one you want just so he can get the treat. It can be pretty entertaining to watch.

Here he is playing dead. Not an entirely convincing performance ha-ha.

November 30, 2016 2

UXO

This is the sign at the beginning of the path where I like to take my lunch time photo walks at work. There are some spots where I would like to walk off the path to get some interesting shots but I don’t think I want to risk getting blown up. Apparently some of the Ordnance is from the World War II era.