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Monahans Sandhills State Park, TX, USA,
Here are some pictures from camping at Monahans State Park, TX. It was windy and rainy most of the time I was there.
I used my GX7 with the 12-32 and my GF1 with the 20mm.15Mar 11, 2017 -
(Rectangular) Filter Guide for Beginners
Hey guys!
I recently embarked on the adventure of adding filters to my photography setup, and it was a very rocky start because I lacked the knowledge of even the simplest terms (I didn’t even know what to google for to ask the right questions). For that reason, I decided to write up my experiences in hopes of helping other “filter newbies” like me. The pro’s among you will already know all of this, so feel free to click away
If you find any factual errors in my summary, please point them out so I can hopefully correct them (not sure how long I can correct a post); please be kind about spelling or grammar errors, English isn’t my native language
Disclaimer 1: This is going to be a bit longer than your average post, but I hope it will be extensive enough to help anyone interested in getting started with filters make some good choices. I am *not* affiliated with any of the companies I mention (I wish!). I am also not going to use many big words or tech babble – I want to make this as approachable as possible.
Disclaimer 2: This is all coming from a filter newbie, geared towards other newbies. I am not a pro, so any constructive feedback is encouraged!
Why do I need filters? They are too complicated to use.
That’s what I was thinking for the longest time. I assumed I could pretty much do most filter effects in LR or PS. Turns out, I’d much rather get the picture in camera instead of spending hours trying to get it right on the computer. I’m not disputing that someone who’s good at post-processing can’t work magic, but I decided for myself that I wanted to get the effect in camera, if possible, and that’s the viewpoint from which I approached the topic.
If you would like to see some awesome implementations of filters in photography, I can recommend the following videos on Youtube (not boring tutorials, but real-life use of filters):
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Crdome and Harvey's Excellent Adventure
Well it finally happened. For almost 2 years @Crdome has been threatening to give me a visit. On February 28, he showed up at my door, pointed a G85 in my face and said "Show me some obscure places to take photos". At least that's how I remember it. So we went to some obscure places and took photos.
First stop was Old Irontown, a site abandoned in 1876, but now part of a state park.
We went out the next day, and we will post photos of that also.
I had a great couple of days with Michael, and I highly recommend a photo shoot with him.60Mar 20, 2017 -
Bryan Peterson Workshop - Las Vegas
We went to Vegas so that I could take part in the workshop and we could visit with my parents.
The workshop was great. Each day was a full day of shooting from early (6am) to late (8pm). Saturday had a mid-day break, but Sunday was only broken up by a leisurely lunch. Although the web site said there would be 8 participants, we had about 16 people. I don’t think that had a negative impact on the workshop because it felt like everyone was getting as much (or as little) personal attention from Bryan as they wanted. Sometimes everyone wanted to be in basically the same spot, so it only took us one round of shooting to realize that sometimes we would have to shoot in waves. Since everyone was a photographer, everyone was attentive to staying out of others’ shots and happy to relocate if needed.
As you might expect, there were a range of abilities in the photographers. It felt like most people were intermediate to experienced shooters, with a couple of people who needed a bit more attention. I was hoping that we would get to share images, but there just wasn’t time for that. Beyond just transporting us to various locations around the city and Valley of Fire, Bryan talked about technical topics, e.g. shutter speed, depth of field, etc. and artistic aspects like seeing and techniques for specific images.
Bryan has published a couple of books and done a series of YouTube videos for Adorama – 156 and counting! Some of what we shot I had seen in his videos or read about in one of his books. I suspect that everything we did at the workshop is covered in those resources, but it was fun to get out and shoot in an interesting place with some hands-on guidance. Bryan even arranged for a model, which was a nice change for me since I don’t usually shoot models.
I came out of this with about 50 images that I’m keeping. This is a much higher count than I usually share, but there was a larger diversity of images that I usually get in a weekend. I mean, how many...4Mar 19, 2017 -
Few days in Bavarian Forest
We spent a few days in Bayerischer Wald. Of course, we had some time in "Tier-Freigelände im Nationalparkzentrum Lusen" which provides the opportunity to take photographs of animals in a rather natural environment. Please enjoy watching:
(young brown bears in action, image details)
(female wild cat, image details)
(lynx, image details)
(lesser spotted eagle, image details)
(Eurasian eagle-owl, image details)
(lynx, image details)
(female wildcat, image details)21Feb 28, 2017
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