Som street photography from a short photo trip to San Francisco spring 2022. Nikon Z7 and Leica Q2.
Travel
Travelling with Leica Q2 /
Mallorca weekend
October images /
October offered a number of occasions to pick up the camera. At the beginning of the month there were beautiful autumn colors in the nature around where I live and later in the month I made a couple of trips to some beautiful locations.
A short trip to Ireland and County Kerry in the beginning of the month gave the opportunity for a short sightseeing in the area of Killarney National Park and since I had the camera with me I did take som photographs. I also had a tripod with me on the trip but I did not bring it with me because the others in the travel company would have ben forced to wait for me every minute then and there was no time for that. So the shots are handheld or the camera is placed on a rock.
The area was fantastic and I will really try to get there soon again for a real photo trip.
The week after the trip to Ireland it was time for this autumn photo trip. This year to Venice Italy for a change of perspective and something other than landscape photography. The only miscalculation was that it was just me who realized it was off season .. there were an incredible amount of people, especially during the weekend, but I still managed to get som shots I am happy with but I would have hoped for som more morning mist even rain.
When I left, all of Venice was embedded in fog and the aircraft could not land at the airport. Then it was sad to be stuck at the airport with such conditions outdoors.
Venice Airport covered in fog.
Retrospective & planning /
There hasn’t been much camera time this year so when I was going trough some (very) old images I can see that I have always liked dramatic skies, this one is 10 years old from Nice, taken with my D90 from the back of the hotel we stayed at.
Nice, France
Planning ahead I am thinking of a photo trip to Venice, in mid October, when its low season and a chance of morning fog, I really would like that.
I’ve been to Venice a couple of times, passing trough in the winter, and it has always rained. Though it would be a break from Iceland, Faroe and Lofoten and actually get the chance to eat a decent meal I haven’t made myself outdoors.
This is a pic from february 2010.
Venice
August images /
Summer images from the south and the east of Sweden, and a local monochrome industrial capture.
Editing /
I went trough some pictures from last year and found this from a trip to Iceland last spring. It was flagged as an ok image but I had not applied any editing more than lens correction and added keywords.
It was taken early in the morning at Goðafoss waterfall in northeastern Iceland and I was completely alone there at the time. It was a rather gray morning and I used my Nikon D750 with a 16-35 lens, at 16 mm, and Lee filters. A polariser, a 2 stop graduated ND filter and a 2 stop ND filter. At f11 the shutter speed was half a second.
I always shoot in booth raw an jpeg and straight out of the camera a raw image looks, well, just raw..
It kind of shows the gray weather and overcast sky but the reality was not quite as dull as this and I also, somehow, managed to get a heavy vignetting from the polariser, I don't know why since that is not normal with this filter and it is normally handling the wide 16 mm angel very well.
The jpeg straight out of the camera isn´t much better either. a little more texture in the sky and brighter shadows.
Just a little more texture in the sky and brighter shadows but all in all pretty much as flat as the raw-file.
I must have seen some potential in the culling process since I put a flag on it, probably for the nice texture in the water with a good amount of movement, so lets see what a bit of editing can do with a image like this. All editing are made i Lightroom and nothing in Photoshop.
That's a bit better. A rather subtle editing with corrected white balance and black & white points. The overall exposure is decreased and the light increased with local adjustment with some radial filter, brush and some more graduated filter in the sky to lift the clouds and get some drama and texture. The colors are enhanced in the water for a more natural tone with the HSL-panel and then some overall adjustments in the tone curve. Thats it, pretty subtle but a big difference and a much better interpretation of what I actually did see that early morning.