2020-12-15 21:17:21
An experiment that showed me a few things:
- Light pollution is a real thing (city is about 15km away)
- m43 sensors in near dark doesn’t work well
- DxO4 DeepPrime reduces noice better that Lightroom
Different paces of life
Yesterday, I once again found myself in town … with a couple of hours to spend before going home again. As usual, I brought my camera with me, despite not feeling inspired, and took a few photos while walking around. I classify them as “learning photos”, a more polite way of saying that none of them were any good, but they serve as reminders of what I could improve until next time … which will be tomorrow (I have to spend a couple of morning hours in town while waiting for the car to get serviced).
Anyway, when I got home I started to look at the photos and there were two that got me thinking about different stages of life. The first is of a mother (I assume) with her child speeding along the street. I assume they were going to the daycare or to visit a doctor (there is a doctor’s office further down the street). A typical day in a parents’ life.
And the other photo was of this gentleman who was standing beside the street, looking like he waited for something/someone, perhaps a taxi or a ride home.
To me, this illustrates two different phases of life with very different paces. I hope that all three of them take the time to enjoy where they are in life.
Taking photos in the dark
One of the advantages of living where I live are the differences between seasons. In “spring-winter” the sun comes along and everything gets a bit brighter, with a bit of luck it gets bright enough to catch a few photos during the day.
In spring trees, plants and flower is starting to grow again and everything gets more colorful
In summer, everything turns green
In autumn, the light starts to get low and suddenly, it’s all very colorful.
Which brings me to winter. Today sun raise was 9:20 and sunset 13:40, and if that’s not enough the last several weeks have been rainy (hello, climate change) and cloudy. In other words it’s dark before work and it’s dark after work, and if I decide to take an afternoon walk it’s “a low light situation” (thanks to whoever who passed in the car).
Fortunately, it’s still possible to take photos … with one change, instead of taking landscape photos I photograph the “city lights” — but since I don’t live in a city it doesn’t happen that often.
When I walk around at home it’s more like this
Still not bad but it gets a bit “limiting”. Not surprisingly this is the season for flash photography 😜
