Thanks for that info, @littleade! And, yes, we do have that same saying in the U.S. but with a bit of a twist. Typically--at least how I've always heard it--it's sailors take warning rather than shepherds. If our weather forecast for this coming week bears out, that saying will also bear out as It's predicted to rain nearly every day. Of course it is--Mr. Sandi and I are on holiday from our school-based jobs and we return to work when the weather is predicted to clear. Well, we'll take it as it comes.
Rio verde Final destination of the off-road we did on Sunday It goes through a canyon about 400m deep.
Was up my favourite part of the coast this morning, this place never looks the same twice! Heading home the sun had got high enough to create some lovely but brief pockets of mist
Thanks for the kind words! It's more or less a hobby accidently born out of lockdown I have been putting in an effort!
That effort truly shows, Andy! I love both those photos but the first one is absolutely stunning to my eye. Thanks for sharing the efforts and results of your hobby. See, there are a few (very few) silver linings to be found in a lockdown.
I’ll second that about your photos. Would you share a few details on the camera and post-production effort? I’d like to do some more photography next year and know, well, bugger all really.
Thanks, I'm using a Canon EOS R. It's a full frame mirrorless camera and 90% of the time with a wide angle lens. Without a doubt, mirrorless is going to be the future of photography but DSLR's will live on the same as film cameras do today. Adobe Lightroom is where I edit, it's a subscription of £10 a month and that also gets you photoshop and the lightroom app too. I rarely use photoshop unless I'm blending parts of different photos together like a long exposure where I want water to look silky and trees to remain sharp. Lightroom and photoshop is pretty much the industry standard. Mostly adjust curves for contrast along with whites, blacks, shadows and highlights. The tricky bit is to not overdoo it!
Thanks for the camera suggestions. I’m just using my iPhone 11 Pro at the moment, which seems pretty good in general, but I’m tempted to step up to a proper unit. I’ll do some research later based on your post. i took up an offer for Luminar AI recently as it offers a lot more than Apple Photo for editing. I’m not quite avid enough to justify the subscription cost of Lightroom, though it does seem quite ubiquitous. Call me old-fashioned but I find subscription models rather irking. I’ll need to be sure I’m getting enough value out of it to pay £120/year, every year.
A lot of stuff is subscription based now. Sign of the times! Like you I'd rather the old fashoned way. I have a PlayStation that I just don't use for the same reasons. Maybe once ever few months I fancy a game and it's 'you need to download a 65gb system update, with my slow Internet thats 2 days!. Then the game needs a big update . Please enter your log in details that we made you dream up 3 years ago with capital, lower case, a number and a symbol that you have forgotten. Does your head in! Luminar gets good reviews! Camera manufacturers normally have free editing software for RAW files that will do the job.
PS Plus is an exception for me. I do have that and don’t mind because over the course of a year I’ll pick up a few games that justify the cost. My broadband is pretty average but from 2006 to 2020 I couldn’t get it at all where I live, so I’m not complaining. Subscription models are ok in some circumstances but just paying to keep the lights on when it is, or could be, a standalone product gets my goat a bit. Adobe have always liked to wring their customer’s pockets, though they do make some high quality software. My tip for passwords - get a copy of SafeInCloud. Syncs across devices and is free. Never lose your login details again!
