As the title of this post implies I took Thanksgiving day to kind of chill from being a creative and other than posting on IG, I spent the day watching the parade and then a couple of movies. There were also calls with family and an afternoon of cooking the holiday dinner. I like to cook and don't often take the time to do it anymore. So it was fun to get back into it. Here is yesterday's IG post, and following that, today's post as well. Focusing still on salvaging bad color photos by turning them into black and white photos.
Friday, November 24, 2023
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Missed Posting Yesterday
Was off the island yesterday and that got me all twisted around in my usual daily routine. I got a lot of chores done, though, as well as grabbing a huge load of groceries. Lots of foodstuffs not available at the market on the island.
Still trying more experiments with black and white photography. Yesterday's post would have again been about how black and white photography saved another otherwise useless, normal touristy kind of color photo. Here is the post:
Here is what the color photo looked like:
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| Taken down by Damillos Restaurant |
Monday, November 20, 2023
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Playing With Filters
When possible, I try to use all the photos I take in some form or other. In instances when I get images that just don't turn out the way that I had imagined they would, I experiment on them with different filter packs I have come to like. Filters that I have been experimenting with come in the form of iOS apps created by MocaDeco They make apps that include filter packs called Pastelgraf, Retrograph, Neongraf, Infragraf, and Antiqgraf. I purchased all their filter apps but have been particularly drawn to Antiqgraph and Pastelgraf. In today's post I used the latter which has various filters that treat the image with a pastel vibe. It much improved a photo that otherwise would have been deleted. I will probably still delete the photo from my roll, but it is fun to be creative and experiment to try and get the Hail Mary save on a bad photo.
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Perfect Example
Here is a perfect example of what I had to go through to post a panorama on IG. Because Instagram is set up to use a 4:5 or square format in its posts, I had to use Unfold for iOS to format my post in such a way that people could appreciate the beauty of the photos used in the panorama. The images were created by my drone which was flying at an altitude of about 350' and at sunrise.
I used a feature of the drone camera that allows you to take a panorama of 9 photos. It does this automatically by rotating the camera on its gimbal, take 3 rows of 3 photos/row. It then stitches the photos together while processing the image. Individual images of the panorama are also stored separately on its sd card. I took two of these panoramas and stitched those together into an 18 photo panorama using this software for MacOS.
Here is the post on IG:
Here area the component photos:
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| Left side 9 photo |
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| Right side 9 photo |
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| Composite panorama |
Friday, November 17, 2023
Thursday, November 16, 2023
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