Your Canon Photos No. 24: 15th to 21st October 2023

Hi simplejoy, Thank You.

Hi simplejoy,

My favourite is 'Dances on fences', love the composition and colours.

Hi Dunlin, Thank You.

Hi Dunlin,

Love the Autumn colours, so many berries this year around where I live.

Thanks for the link Tim.
I'm still thinking hawthorn. The berries aren't as red as most hawforn berries I see. There's a lot of blackthorn growing very near where I live, and I think the leaves from the photo look like hawthorn leaves. (This photo from that link.)

Thankyou mocha.

Mocha,

Thanks. It is amazing to me every time I see these cars. I do think about the time, energy and money it takes.

A dragonfly and a tree. Shot as RAW, processed in darktable.

I'm pretty happy tonight.

I've been wanting to try my hand at long exposure black and white photography, so I ordered a 10 stop ND filter.
I've also been wanting to get 128Gb SDXC card for my tablet, so that I can take photos out in the field and store them on my tablet.

After I placed my order, I realized that I had ordered a full sIzed SDXC card, and my tablet uses a micro. I went ahead and let my order stand as is, thinking I can use the full sized as a spare for my camera, and ordered a micro for the tablet.

Everything arrived today and works great. The cards went in flawessly..

Now I have to get to work 😀

Steve Thomas

Dunlin,

I like your photos. What camera and lens are you using?

Steve Thomas

@stevet1 I use an Olympus mirrorless camera, the Olympus OM-D E-M10 II, with a kit lens and the Olympus 40-150mm R.
As you know, I used to use Canon DSLRs, but I eventually found the weight just too much. And for someone on a very low budget such as myself, Canon is a pretty poor option for mirrorless cameras. I did consider the Canon 100D, and even shortly a fixed-lens-camera, but I chose to swap brands. The Olympus has some great features (foremost the IBIS) and I enjoy using it, but I'm also hoping to buy another Canon DSLR sometime in the future.

Some fall foliage.

I downloaded this to my tablet and cropped it with Snapseed and uploaded it from there.

Steve Thomas

Looks good.

Dunlin,

Here's the other one I took.

I need to be more patient and look at the Histogram first or something. The light coming off that tree trunk will put your eye out 😀

I wish these DSLR's had a histogram in the viewfinder.

Steve Thomas

Hi Dunlin,

Super photo of the Dragonfly, I'm back into using Linux on a Pi4 at the moment (just for fun) so I'm going to give Darktable a go, I've wanted to try it out before so now's my chance. 😀

Hi Steve,

It's all about highlights and shadows in that photo and probably software will correct it for you. If you shoot in RAW the Dynamic range will be greater than your .jpgs and you will recover those problems much easier.

Hi Steve,

I wouldn't normally edit a photo of your's or anyone elses for that matter, I just want you to see that even in your .jpg the tree trunk has all the detail that you require. You need to lower the highlights of the picture in the software you use.

Mocha,

That's OK. I'm here to learn as well as to share.

Steve