Llandover Woods

Sand Point

After getting my new camera yesterday, I took it with me today to Magnuson Park, at Sand Point, to met a friend for a walk.

The images here are maybe a little better in execution thatn yesterday's, and have been cropped. A few have had contrast tweaked.


These should be a deeper red, but I suspect that the infrared sensitivity of the camera's image sensor isn't adding white to the mix, making the flowers pink.


These ducks were way out there. This shot was handheld at the equivalent of a 520mm telephoto on a 35mm camera. Image stabilization is great. (Image is cropped significantly.)











For me, photography is more about the process than the product, but I do enjoy the resulting images as well.

New camera - 5/21/08

The first picture with the new camera had to be of Webster, of course.

None of these images demonstrate what the camera is capable of when used carefully. I was just finding my way around the controls. They also are uncropped and untweaked - just the way the came out of the camera.

And my second subject was Archie.

Then I wandered outside for a few flower shots & such.


Most folks have seen stitched panoramas before. What makes this camera interesting is that you only press the shutter once, then shift the camera until a dot aligns with a target, at which point the camera automatically makes another exposure. Repeat that again, and you have a three piece panorama which is automatically stitched in the camera. This example demonstrates some drawbacks, especially in exposure control, which I will be attempting to ameliorate.

The next two images below were taken on my evening walk, a little over a half hour after sunset. It was much darker out than it looks.


Quite a camera. Quite a day.

weeds?

This is the first post to show pictures actually taken the same day. Still with the D450Z, but the SP570UZ is getting closer.

Some of the previous images have been weeds. Probably more that I don't know yet. The same surely applies to todays.

Seems like I should know, so I have got some books coming. Online public library book requests are great.

There's also the county weed folks. Jo brought home a pamphlet & brochure from a local plant sale.

But I didn't go down at 5:30 am just for the weeds (and wildflowers?), but also for the beach.

foograf are us

For the last few weeks, I've been considering getting a new camera to do something more along the lines of "real photography" than the basic blogshots I had been doing with my 1999 1.3 Mp Olympus D450Z.

As part of that exercise, I have been trying to do things I might do with the new camera, using the old camera, to get a better perspective on feature & function priorities - and to make sure I really would go out and take pictures, not just sit on the couch thinking about it.

All the posts in this blog so far are from that exercise. At this point, it is mostly just images, but I may wander back through and add some remarks.

The new camera, an Olympus SP-570UZ, will be here in a few days.

Then we will see what directions this blog goes.

Greenwood - 5/12/08

orchard - 5/6/08

Carkeek Park

beach - 5/5/08

Golden Gardens Park

backyard - 5/4/08

Meadow Point - 5/2/08

Golden Gardens Park