Playing with Post-Crop Vingetting

Sometimes I find it just fun to play with post editing. When the pictures I've got are nice but somehow lacking the "wow" element for different reasons but still holding a potential for something more. Yesterday morning was kind of gray, the night had been cold enough for frost crystals form but the light was not dramatic enough to bring out the beauty. We had about an hour and a half to spend on photography and so we did, regardless the uninspiring light. At first when I looked at the pictures on my computer, I felt like tossing them all in the bin but today, after a second look in Lightroom...and using post-crop vingetting to bring out the drama...some turned out pretty cool.

More Fall in B&W

I love fall, the smell and the silent drama of endings. To me it somehow feels so rich, like if there was gratitude for all that was. Life in a slow withdrawal, full of promises of a sweet return. Today I had the EOS M with the 22mm M lens with me, it is really convenient to carry around just in case.

Fall in B&W

Colors of Fall are interesting to shoot in B&W as the color of the leaves can vary from green to yellow and red in between and each comes out a little different in B&W

 

 Here we have mostly dark orange leaves and some still green, doesn't make much of a difference to how summer green leaves comes out in B&W. 

In these two pictures the trees are mostly bright yellow as the sun falls on them and the water and stones are in the shadow with a shade of blue. If the leaves were deep green as in summer time, they wouldn't come out this light.

Guess what colors we have here?

Details of October with a Tele Zoom Lens

October came with all the beautiful colors of fall. The weather was finally gorgeous today after days of clouds and rain, the sunny weather brought out the brightness of yellows and red. Usually I gear up with a macro lens for details but today I decided to try the Tele-Zoom, EF 70-200 f4 L to see how that works.

 This lend gives quite a nice bokeh but to work it for details is very different compared to a macro lens with the closest focus distance of 31cm. The tele zoom needs 1,2m. The magic is to find object you can shoot at that distance and get enough space behind it to make the object stand out. For these pictures I used fstopes between 4 and 5.6, played a little more with the ISO speed to make sure I get a shutter speed fast enough to fight the wind playing with my objects.

 All in all I'm pleased with the results I could get, like the two images below.