Greyscale, grayscale, monochrome, black & white, whatever you want to call it. Too often viewed as the realm of the darkroom photographer, greyscale images can add a lot to your galleries and really grab the eye when done well. This is a demonstration of several different digital editing techniques to give your color-free images a bit of an edge.
As before, it’s best if your monitor is
I finally got around to completing one of the two videos that I had on the docket, but we have to lead into it a little.
The backstory: With the gout of warm weather a short while back, the various amphibians around the yard (among many other critters) leapt into action and were out making a dogawful racket some nights – as in, it was actually painful to listen to from short
It means… actually, it doesn’t mean a damn thing, because I haven’t done a weekly topic on Thursdays since, oh, 2021, but I like the idea of new people coming here and thinking they’re missing out. Well, sure, of course they are, if they’re new, but even more so than they really are. All this presumes that new people are actually coming here, and this whole
Program Auto? Sport Mode? Shutter-Priority? Manual? What mode should I be using on my camera?
Well, no one mode will do it all for you, but it’s true enough that you can accomplish damn near everything with only two or three – I generally switch back and forth between Aperture-Priority and Manual, but that has quite a bit to do with my subject matter and shooting methods. So let’s
I’m not doing terribly well on cleaning out the backlog, partially because there’s no real subject/theme among most of the pics, so I’m just throwing up a couple for the time being, recent avian images.
A few days back, The Girlfriend and I did a pass through Goose Creek State Park in the late morning, turning up surprisingly little – the place seemed almost
I have a small collection of the same subject from two consecutive days, but the best images were the first and tapered off a bit from there, so we’re doing them mostly in reverse order.
Four or five days ago (depending on when I actually post this – it’s 11 PM right now,) the day dawned quite foggy, and I looked out at the pond and saw practically nothing. No, it wasn’t quite
Just illustrating one of the common pitfalls of nature photography.
The other day while I was up in the bathroom observing the ducks (which sounds weird if you haven’t been following along,) a pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) was hopping excitedly between a couple of trees in relatively plain sight, and I say “relatively” because there is no completely plain sight
There were about 2-3 minutes today when seeing this was actually possible, so The Girlfriend and I are extremely lucky to have been there when it happened. But as we were walking the property and discussing where some trees would be going, I spotted this microspud booking as fast as it was able across the gravel driveway.
This is easily the smallest turtle I’ve ever found,
So, shutter speed. What is it? Should we fear it? Was it bestowed upon us by aliens? The answer to two of these is, “No,” so let’s look at the remaining one, and add in how to avoid the stumbling blocks.
Basic answer: shutter speed is how long the camera is admitting light to the sensor or film. Except not really – it’s how long it can
And so, part two of the visit to Mattamuskeet National Widlife Refuge, focusing entirely on the one species that made a cameo in the first. The foreshadowing of the day came early on, when we saw a pair of birds far in the distance crossing the road.
This is cropped from the full frame at 600mm, so suffice to say I wasn’t identifying them based on what I saw in the viewfinder,
