I had fun playing with my camera in Avila today! The BEST photo, IMHO, is of this bird – once I edited it in Lightroom, I could see SO MUCH DETAIL! The wings, the eye, the feet. Yay!!!
Category: Potpourri
Miscellaneous thoughts and reflections
To say that I’m having fun taking photos is an understatement! A highlight of my days now is capturing photos with my new camera and then reviewing and editing them on my computer. What a fun and creative hobby! In class, we have switched from “program” mode (basically, “auto” mode with raw file format) to “manual” mode. So, I’ve been playing with shutter speed, aperture, ISO, metering, and histogram. Below are a few pics from today, all from Avila Beach, all manual mode on my Fujifilm XE3, and all edited using Adobe Lightroom.
These first three photos show “Frame Within a Frame,” or what I can “Natural Frame,” compositions.
The next three photos are ways of following lines – the lines of the ladder, stairs, or railing.
I had fun playing with shutter speed. In these two sets of photos, the first photo was shot using a verrryyyy slow shutter speed and the second with a very FAST shutter speed. When I look closely at the water, there is so much more detail in the foam and spray with the FAST shutter speed.
The last three photos highlight the water and its beauty.
I had fun hiking with Viza and snapping pics in Poly Canyon! Here are a few of my favorites.
For my Cuesta photography class, we had to capture photos that exemplify various composition principles. From these many photos, we had to pick our four “hero” photos. Each “hero” photo represents our best photo with each representing a different composition technique. These are my four “here” photos.
Frame Within the Frame: Topkapi Palace, the door frame is the outer frame with the woman wearing the hijab centered
Diagonals: the lines of the cloth guide one’s eyes, tea house during Istanbul Culinary Walking Tour
Fore, Middle, and Background: Istanbul synagogue, foreground highlights bullet from a terrorist in the front chair, middle-ground shows other chairs, background is the rear of the synagogue
Symmetry: Balat neighborhood of Istanbul
I’ve been a bit frustrated with how some of my indoor photos have a yellow tint to them. Although I’m taking a photography class at Cuesta, we haven’t discussed “white balance” yet. I did a bit of research on my own and tweaked two photos in Adobe Lightroom. What a big difference!
Before white balance adjustment…
After white balance adjustment…!
Before…
After…!
Welcome to my very first post!
When setting up this website, I thought the learning curve might be a bit steep…deciding on a website host, setting up the site itself, learning how to use the site. Yep! I was right! This has been and continues to be a bit of a challenge. However, here goes! My very first blog post!
What’s coming up: I’m going to transfer my photos and commentary from Facebook over to my blog. This process will take quite awhile, and that’s okay! The journey – both literally and figuratively – continues.
In the meantime, I’m using this blog to post photos and reflections on my current travels. When I’m home, I’ll play “catch-up” and post pics and commentary on past adventures.
[Update: As of 08.08.2022, all p0st-retirement travels have been transferred to my blog! It was a long and cumbersome process, but now I am posting current adventures, thoughts, reflections, photos.]