My New Camera

Well, I’ve been using my Lumix micro four thirds camera for a few months now, the experience has been for the most part positive. That said, I have had a couple of things that haven’t been perfect either. The Constant Exposure setting doesn’t work well. When you turn it on, it then lags extremely badly on the screen and when you try to set exposure in low light it acts glitchy and jumps around. You cannot shoot night work with it on for instance. The other thing that isn’t ideal is that if you want to turn on the histogram while you shoot it isn’t responsive enough to use for reference.

I never shot in live view on my DSLRs so I never had these functions available to me anyway so I’m not loosing sleep over it anyway. The overall experience is good so that’s the point, right?

Re-imagining Reality

If anyone has been following me recently, you know that I am now diving deeply into high profile black and white imagery. I am loving it, I find the absence of colour refreshing. Re-imagining reality.

New Beginnings

The last little while we have been talking about shrinking our gear down due to the sheer weight of it. We have traveled more the last couple of years and I’m telling you, after carrying that heavy bag through many airports, I was more ready than ever for a change.

Full frame DSLR kits are a chore to carry around, that’s for sure. I have shot Nikons for several years and I love that stuff. I’d accumulated some top notch glass and I’ll miss that stuff for a long time. Our new stuff is fine quality but it feels very different.

I have to just get past feelings, embrace the new stuff and get on with it.Nat-Geo hasn’t been calling me wanting my work and at my age that isn’t likely to happen. :) It’s time for me to go lighter and be happy, it’s a hobby, something to be enjoyed, right?

We went to the Micro Four Thirds sensor. Considerably smaller than our full frame monsters, therefore a smaller size and noticeably lighter gear! I DO like that! But what about quality? This photo is a hawk we found nearby and it was posing so nicely in that beautiful light, I even overlooked it’s choice of perches.

New Tools

One of the things I like about photography and post processing is that sometimes you learn a new trick or tool and it opens new doors for your creativity. I discovered Gradient Maps in photoshop and have found a couple of interesting places to use it. This is using an orange gradient map and I like it. I’m not great with colours but under the correct circumstances I will try out some things.

As always, comments always welcome.

Confederation Bridge in Black and White

I like a good black and white image. The trouble is that not all images work as well as others but I feel that this one works quite well. The use of black and white helps us to look at more, we see the forms, shapes and lines much easier for one thing.