Showing posts with label photo fail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo fail. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Bugs'-eye view

It has been raining almost constantly for several weeks. Mushroom heaven! And then the sun forced its way through the clouds for a day.

Walking at the tip of Tyee Spit, I looked down at the moss and discovered that it is dotted with thousands of pinhead mushrooms. And hundreds of dime mushrooms. Even a few eyeball mushrooms. A dozen species, at least: tongues and cups, saucers and cones, puffballs and jellies, and, of course, the usual mushroom-shaped 'shrooms.

I was down on my knees in the soggy grass, taking photos of one, and wanted a photo of the stem. Wanted to see if there even was a stem. But I didn't want to lie face down in the wet; it was very wet. I put my hand down flat and set the camera down on top of it, and took blind photos.

My hand was too fat, and the mushroom too low; the camera saw only grass.

What the camera saw.

I sort of liked this one anyhow, mushroom-deficient as it is.

Now, I'll start processing mushroom photos, with real mushrooms. And a snake, too!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Blue water, blue birds

I've got the blues ...

Taking photos at a birthday party in a living room with deep red walls and not enough light, I played around with my camera settings and white balance. The photos turned out ok, but I forgot to switch everything back. Oops!

On White Rock beach, the next day, all my photos came out blue, blue, very blue. And all my efforts to fix them only made them harsh and artificial.

Here are a couple of blue gulls, with as much colour correction as I could manage:

I loved the pale browns of the wing pattern. Oh, well.

Blue or not, this guy's happy! A whole big sole to himself!

New addition to check list for each day's prep:

  1. Empty memory
  2. Recharge battery
  3. Replace clean lens cloth
  4. Check settings!
Blue bird
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