So, thanks to the (rather needed) three day weekend here at Roberts, I find myself in Tuesday already and announcing the photo walk this week for the distant future date of ‘tomorrow.’ I know, I know, I apologize for the lack of warning on this one. But, tomorrow’s got the better forecast (mostly sunny with some clouds beats mostly cloudy, usually). Meet us at Roberts downtown, 5:30, we’ll rock the block.
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“The Wonder of it All” or “Un-Color My World”
I sat down last week and uploaded images, then it got really busy. Really. The next time I got to work on this most impressive post it was almost 5:00 on Wednesday and I had only a minute to get back to it. Really busy, was there a race and 440,ooo extra people in town or what?!?
Anyway, the week before last I went to Florida on vacation and I took both of my Olympus cameras with me. The point and shoot SW1030 was on my hip the entire time I was not sleeping, the E520 and several lenses were brought out several times, but a DSLR is just not as easy to have on you all the time. Both cameras have their unique qualities. The SW1030 (and it’s newer brother the Tough 8000) is a little photo-tank and submarine and can go underwater as far as 33 feet and is still small enough to have on you all of the time. Then there is the interchangable lens DSLR series fron Olympus.
My E-520 is a DSLR and takes interchangable lenses and external flashes. One of the features I used the most on vacation is its ability to shoot in B&W. I know, lots of cameras can shoot in B&W, but I don’t know of too many that have Red, Orange, Yellow and Green filter modes built into the software. Here is where Derek would give you a lesson on the old fashion B&W filters and how they affected film images. Suffice it to say that using color filters on B&W film causes the tones closest to the filters color to get lighter, and tones opposite of those colors (on the color wheel we all remember from grade school art class) To get darker). Example, Orange filters will make blue sky darker, green filters will make red items darker (and green ones lighter). There having said that here is a photo I shot using Orange Red and Yellow filters in the Fanning Springs National Park on the Suwannee River in Florida.
Left to Right: Orange filter, Red filter and Yellow filter.
The differences are subtle but notice how the sky and leaves are much lighter in the yellow, and the darker sky and leaves in the Orange filter.
Now if you have one of those other brand DSLR’s that don’t have built in color filters (for B&W shooting) you can still purchase a screw on filter at you favorite all-purpose camera store like, say Roberts from your favorite sales person like…
Like Sean Connery said in Highlander, “Here endeth the lesson.” Go be happy and make beautiful images. That’s an order.
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