I was halfway through my day of photography when I noticed that I was shooting in manual mode. Not that this is a bad thing, it’s just that I thought I was auto focusing, which I wasn’t, and I missed focus on about half my shots.
This would have been a much better composition had it been in focus.
Last October I captured an image of a row of birch trees that I really liked, but when I got home and viewed the image on my computer, I noticed a wire running through the image. The updated Adobe Photoshop 2019 has an improved “Content Aware Fill” feature that seems to work much better than past versions and I gave it a try on the image. I came away pleasantly surprised by the end result. Is it absolutely perfect? No, but it’s pretty darn good and I would be willing to print the result. My plan is to print it on canvas which should aid in softening any residual effects of the process.
Canon 5D Mk ll, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 IS USM, ISO 50, 70mm, f/16, 1/30 sec.
Birch bark curls are fun to study and photograph. They come in all shapes and sizes and speak the to organic flow of nature.
Continuing on my fall tour, here’s a line of birch trees on the edge of a bog.
My images for the next few weeks will be from my extended trip out west. I am traveling from northern Minnesota to the Oregon coast with a few side trips. I invite you to come along for the ride.
Yellow Leaves-Black Hills
A place to get lost…?
My month long visit home has ended and I have returned to Minneapolis again. Sports photography begins at the end of next week and my sister is arriving from Florida later today. She claims she likes taking a break in cooler weather, but she may get more than she bargained for on this trip.
During the month of March I was able to accomplish many things that had been awaiting my attention, however, there is always much more for when I return home next. I managed to sneak in a few photo trips while home, some of the results were shown in previous blog posts. As I was kind of quiet during the past month, I thought I would share a few glimpses of how I spent some of my time in the Duluth area. The image with the blue bridge highlights my upcoming summer adventure. I will be a seasonal operator of the bridge, which opens to allow the tour boats, fishing charter boats and private craft to pass on their way out to Lake Superior. Part of the job is to be an ambassador for the city of Duluth. You can be sure I will always have a camera with me on this job.
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