It's a bit dramatic for an office park set of trees where I park my car every day for my solo walk of 3.1 miles every day. But ICM is one of those things you try, try, try and won't know what you get until you get home. I had about 7 good ones--my lucky day.
This technique I use attempts to hold the camera still on the lower end of image parameters before whipping the camera up to create the ICM. It results in some parts of the image retaining focus while the other parts get all blurry and the light (I was a bit wobbly) also picks up as it shines through.
Today was busy. Keeping up with my WW diet thing has been surprisingly easy--before dinner, I had used only 2 of my 16 points (and I ate a bunch today!).
A friend dropped by to drop off his harddrive and camera cards. He borrowed his son's Sony A7 and didn't realize everything was in Raw, so I volunteered to load it in LR and convert them to Jpegs. But no, Sony RAW files are ARW files. So I didn't give up; I googled first "what is ARW." Haha. I figured out that I needed to download a converter through Adobe, but I could not get the download to process. I got on the chat feature, was transferred 4 times, and finally, I asked: "oh wait, does it matter what browser I'm using?" And sure enough, I needed to use Explorer--I was in Chrome. I thanked the 4th person with lots of !!!! and then I converted the shots, did a quick freebie edit session of the 904 shots (it was a universal edit, for sure), and then reloaded his images onto his hard-drive.
And I learned something new!
And I cooked Salmon, rice, and asparagas tonight--delish.
I like all your t(h)ree shots!!!
And your story too! Good, you didn't give up the converting thing; helped someone and learned yourself! Great :) Good luvknwith counting points. It's possible to lose weight (I lost 42 kilos!) but be prepared during the process to be attentive how to keep that weightloss. A coach would be good. I missed that... :(
@stimuloog You are right about the coaching! I have had a coach in the past, and technically my plan has some coaching. I'm already a very active person, so I don't have to worry about exercise--I'm in year 3 of doing it every day--but I think my metabolism is a real problem, so it's all about the food. I'm charting things now for after the 3 month sign up with the program I'm in -- if I can succeed with food like I have with exercise, it just may work! I hope I can do what you did! :)
Loving your work and your commentaries, Daryl. I wonder if I can get a similar effect with my iPhone 11 camera. Will explore. In any case, I like this shot a lot.
@jakb I don't have an iphone; however, I believe you have a manual capability in the camera. You'll want a slower shutter speed, and a very tight (higher number) aperture. If you click on my exif information for this photo, it should show you what settings I used. Never under-estimate the power of the phones and their capabilities.
@jgpittenger Thanks! I think I had an extra filter on it and it caused the turquoise. Sometimes, my monitor and what is loaded are different--so thank you for the feedback!
And your story too! Good, you didn't give up the converting thing; helped someone and learned yourself! Great :) Good luvknwith counting points. It's possible to lose weight (I lost 42 kilos!) but be prepared during the process to be attentive how to keep that weightloss. A coach would be good. I missed that... :(