Walking back to my hotel after dinner on a beautiful Summer evening in downtown Chicago. Photo taken with the iPhone 13 Pro.
Lake Saratoga panorama in October - Fuji X100F
Autumn in Upstate New York
A beautiful sunny and cool Sunday afternoon in upstate New York. I had a few minutes so I grabbed the camera and headed over to Lake Saratoga to take a few photos of the foliage with the Fuji X100F.
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An American Goldfinch perched atop an evergreen tree.
American Goldfinch
Another photo from earlier this year. An American Goldfinch perched atop an evergreen tree with a bright blue sky in the background.
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November 2016 Super Moon median stack
Super Moon November 2016
This past week you may have heard there was a "Super Moon" on November 14. This is where the moon's full phase corresponds to its orbits closest point to the Earth ... and this year it is the closest it has been to the Earth since 1948 ... causing the moon to appear larger in the sky.
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Warm directional morning light on the trees and cold sky
Morning Light
Morning light striking the trees
The other morning while getting the kids ready for school I happened to notice the very directional light illuminating the trees in the back yard. The light was falling under the cloudy sky to the northwest giving it a very bluish tone.
I grabbed the Fuji X100s and took a number of images from my back doorstep handheld. At first I thought this would make a great black and white image, but this very unique light made for a dramatic image straight out of camera. The image above uses the Fuji Standard color simulation with some minor exposure adjustments in Lightroom CC.
The image to the right is a black and white conversion using the Fuji Red simulation in Lightroom CC.
The image below is a black and white conversion in Nik's Silver Efex Pro II. I like the way Silver Efex Pro can tease out the detail and contrast in the sky quite easily with minimal edits.
Ten minutes later I was extremely glad I had put my coffee down and grabbed my camera as the light had completely faded and we were back to our typical gray winter day.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Black and White rendering of the scene