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“Photography: Painting and Drawing with Light”
INTRODUCTION
Well…we decided to head out into a rainy, cold autumn day for another photography adventure! Mount Macedon became our choice of locations, as it was only an hour or so from where we lived, and therefore travelling time, down to a minimum. It’s truly a beautiful part of the world, and especially at this time of the year! Trees and gardens are bursting with rich colours of bright yellows, oranges, varying shades of green, burnt browns and lipstick reds. Most of our time was spent dogging rain, as I took photographs where ever possible. And some photographs where actually taken from inside the car, peering out of the passenger side window, while my hubby tried to position the car, so I could get the best composition. Everything was wet; the sky heavy with grey clouding and parts of the Mount Macedon area was shrouded in fine mist. This made it challenging to ensure I was able to come away with a creative amount of photography that I would be pleased with. During our driving about, we decided to get out of the cold and rain, and lunch at the Historical Mount Macedon Hotel. Here we enjoyed some hot food that helped recharge our batteries. While we eat, we sat beside a beautiful open fire-place to warm up, before heading back out to see what other photography treasures, we could find! All in all, it was a good day – despite the rain and cold…
PHOTOGRAPHY EQUIPMENT USED
During this garden photography exercise – I used a compact system camera, a Sony A7 Mark II – Full Frame with a Sony A FE24-240mm F3.5-6.3 OSS Lens. For some these photographs I used the camera mounted on a tripod with a remote timer and for others I handheld. I also used my Apple iPhone 8 Plus mobile phone for quick spontaneous photographs and gain GPS location readings.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS
On my return home, I downloaded all the photographs into Adobe Lightroom Classic CC. I developed a small selection of photographs. During the process of developing them I was able to see what I needed to address during my next photographic adventure. Please find both above and below, the best of what I took during this photography adventure!
Some of the photographs I decided to develop minimally being the misty ones. The truly autumn photographs I developed ensuring they maintained their colour bunch! And some worked best as black and white photographs to help show off features better seen with a limited colour palette. NB: Please click on each photograph to find the camera settings use
CONCLUSION
Being out-and-about experiencing the natural wonders of the world really does rejuvenate the body and soul. Photography is just another way to improve one’s sense of wellbeing and at the same time – be creative!
Happy photography all!
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© Karen Robinson – May 2018
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Wow, these are really wonderful. So atmospheric and I especially love the black and white ones- they have a melancholy strength to them.
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Hi Claudia…thank you, so appreciate your comments. Am learning more and more about photography which is helping me take better photographs. Even through it was raining off and on – it actually helped…warm regards Karen
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