… and it needs to go now. But we have a consolation prize, in the form of a ladies’ Speidel watchband and a lovely month-end abstract to go along with it:
I’d like to say this was intentional and it wouldn’t have been hard to accomplish, but this is simply evidence that I accidentally hit the shutter release as I was finished taking a few frames of pre-sunrise twilight, and the camera was moving slightly as I did so. Probably works much better with the faint pastel colors than it would’ve with a truly vivid sunrise. As to exactly how it produced such a mix of typical motion blur and fine, sharp details (look at the weeds near the bottom of the frame,) I really don’t know. But I assure you this is in-camera and not Photoshopped, or even GIMPed.
The next one was wholly intentional, though:
Even worse, this is only evidence of the misting bottle, but what else are you gonna do with roses? Stop and smell them? Sheesh.
Though I did think to try the same frame out with channel clipping – this is what it looks like in strictly the blue channel.
You could say, “There wasn’t even any blue in the image!”, but there is of course: white is a combination of all three color channels at full brightness, and you can also see that the edges of some of the petals go distinctly pinkish, which is produced by adding blue. And you could say, “Why isn’t this all blue then?”, but this is how such things display; when you’re looking at single channels, the only information there is brightness levels, though I suppose I could GIMP it into Blue, but the purpose was high-contrast monochrome, and this fits. The Blue channel is very often the blotchiest, and you can see evidence of this, but most of the detail came out pretty sharply this time around, and so it won the chance to appear here. W00t, as they no longer say.