Saturday afternoon
Posted by SpikeApr 4
Yes, another Saturday afternoon with the dogs by the sea in Sai Kung.
Boring geeky stuff: This time using the Nikon D300. The majority of the shots were done in aperture shutter-priority mode because I wanted to capture the dogs running around. I probably should have dialed the ISO up to 400 or so because some of the shots are dark. Shooting RAW, I could then lighten them up a bit in Lightroom, but I’m still learning that as well, so a little bit of fiddling here and there. Actually I found a D300 template for Lightroom (sorry lost the link) so used that and then played around a bit just with brightness, contrast, clarity settings. But …. I then created jpegs and used Picasa to shrink the jpegs down into a more web-friendly size. But take my word for it – looking at the RAW shots in Lightroom, I am now getting what I want. Those shots are richly detailed and wonderful. For awhile I was thinking that I would only shoot in RAW occasionally but shooting RAW+JPEG and comparing the results of the original shots, even my old eyes can see the difference.
Here are some dragon boaters taking a break on an island beach.
I presume this is a practice race.
Bogey looking happy.
This kid wasn’t looking too happy about having his picture taken. Enough already, dad!
Spikey enjoying his day.
Easy rider.
Why so serious?
This one looks great full size.
Bat kite!
This guy looked seriously unhappy.
It was about 23, 24 degrees. This girl is wearing jeans, a dress, a big coat with a furry collar and TWO scarves. With flipflops.
The pier was packed.
And that’s it!
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