Friday, March 1, 2019

First Nice Day; A Good Time To Get Out And Wander

Brakeman riding the rear of the train. (click to enlarge)
Fujifilm X-T3; 16-55mm f/2.8 lens @ 21mm; 1/180th sec. @ f/8; ISO 200
Tuesday was the first nice day we have had in a while.  The rain had fallen 13 out of the previous 15 days.  Tuesday was sunny and temperatures rose to the high 50s F (12 C).  What I saw was not just a nice day but an opportunity to get out to wander around to see if I could find something of visual interest to me.  Getting out is a good way to stave off those winter blues.  Spring is just three weeks away!

 I grabbed my small Lowe Pro Flipside 300 AW II backpack filled with my Fujfilm gear and headed out of the door.  I didn't really know where I would go, I just wanted to get out of the house and enjoy the day.  In it was my X-T3 with the 16-55mm f/2.8 lens attached, the 10-24mm f/4, the 50-140mm f/2.8 (+ the 1.4x tele-converter) and the 23mm f/1.4 lenses along with various accessories such as batteries, filters, Rocket Blower and lens cleaning cloths.

 As I roamed the back roads of south eastern Virginia, I stopped and photographed anything that caught my eye.  Here are a few images from that day.
Stony Creek Cleaners (click to enlarge)
16mm; 1/800th sec. @ f/8; ISO 160

Stony Creek Cleaners (click to enlarge)
17mm; 1/850th sec. @ f/8; ISO 160
I wonder what happen to Goofus?  Too bad his store closed. (click to enlarge)
22mm; 1/1000th sec. @ f/8; ISO 200
"American" gasoline.  The price on the pump is 34.9 cents per gallon (click to enlarge)
22mm; 1/1000th sec. @ f/8; ISO 160
Paint details—red, orange, white, blue (click to enlarge)
28mm; 1/500th sec. @ f/8; ISO 160

Old silver railroad bridge, Stony Creek, Virginia (click to enlarge)
51mm; 1/750th sec. @ f/8; ISO 160
None of these images are anything but an exercise in seeing and getting my creative juices flowing during the long, cold winter.  I just enjoy getting out and wandering.  It is refreshing and keeps me looking forward to a beautiful spring.  Also, like athletes, musicians and other skilled individuals, we need to get out and practice our photography often.

 Thanks for looking. Enjoy! 

 Dennis A. Mook 

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4 comments:

  1. Dave JenkinsMarch 1, 2019 at 9:11 PM

    Just my kiind of photos, Dennis.

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    1. The Wandering LensmanMarch 1, 2019 at 10:09 PM

      Thought you might enjoy these, Dave. I’m going to try to do a lot more of this kind of photography this spring and summer.

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  2. Howard FuhrMarch 3, 2019 at 3:42 PM

    Hi Dennis,
    It doesn't appear that my first attempt at writing this went through so I'll try again.
    I'm curious to know if you use a color checker to create camera color profiles for use in processing your RAW files? I currently do not. I process my Fuji RAW files in Capture One Pro Fuji using the supplied Fuji camera profile and so far have no complaints. I have been reading I could get better results creating my own profiles using a color checker. What are your thoughts and experience? Thanks.

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    1. The Wandering LensmanMarch 3, 2019 at 8:21 PM

      Howard, I do create Colorchecker profiles for each of my cameras. I use it most for my Olympus camera as I don’t like the saturation of the yellows and greens that Adobe generates with their LR profiles. They are overly saturated and ugly, in my opinion. The other profile I use with Olympus is the Muted profile for the most natural color I can get with my RAW files using a camera profile, but the Colorchecker profiles are more accurate.

      As for Fujifilm, I use a variety of profiles. It all depends on how each profile makes a specific image look. In the past, I’ve used the Colorchecker profile and mainly the Pro Neg Hi as that profile gives me the best blue color for skies. The other Fujifilm profiles give me a blue I don’t care for. Lately, I’ve been using the Classic Chrome profile because of the suble colors. I don’t like the cyan skies of the Classic Chrome profile so I will change the hue of the blue in LR to be more blue than cyan.

      The Colorchecker profiles give me the most accurate colors and I can match colors across not only camera models but across camera brands. If you create the Colorchecker profiles it is easy to see which colors are altered and corrected. I see mainly the blues, yellows and yellow/oranges corrected. Other colors are corrected to a lesser degree.

      I hope this helped. If there is anything more I can provide, don’t hesitate to ask.

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