changed my photo interest
May 7, 2023 11:22:23 #
Imagemine wrote:
Since I don't travel as much as in the past few years for obvious reasons, I have grown to like urban & street photography in mostly B&W unless there are lots of colored layers to show. How many other hoggers have altered their images?
At 92 going on 93 with a bad hip and knee on my right leg I don’t get out hiking any longer so I had to give up my quest for eagles in their nests (I participated in an eagle watch program here in upstate New York), and I just decided to not sign up for a photo event at the Hancock Shaker Village because there is no way I can keep up with the rest of the class; so I most of my future photography will be landscape and family events. Getting old sucks, but it still beats the alternative LOL
Bud
May 7, 2023 11:22:26 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I wonder if anyone makes B&W conversion glasses. 
Yes - such viewing filters do have exist - but there’s an easier solution - set your camera picture profile to black and white and you will see your scene rendered in black and white. Doing so while shooting in RAW will, of course, allow you to render the image in color after the fact should you want to do so.
May 7, 2023 11:34:56 #
BudsOwl wrote:
At 92 going on 93 with a bad hip and knee on my ri... (show quote)
Like the way you know your limits & still find a way to do your thing, agree getting old does suck
May 7, 2023 11:50:47 #
Longshadow wrote:
I believe the OP means "have altered their <interest in> images".
Not modified images..... (Read the title again.)
I have not.
Not modified images..... (Read the title again.)
I have not.
That's how I interpreted his post as well.
May 7, 2023 13:40:20 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
User ID wrote:
Hard to imagine someone cant turn the focus ring and see the image get sharper ... plus that green dot indicating the best focus. Sales people do say funny things.
Perhaps what the salesman really meant was that many people have no interest in taking the time and effort learning how to nail focus with manual focus lenses. And, of course, using manual focus lenses on a DSLR is more difficult than on a mirrorless camera which has focus peaking and image magnification through the viewfinder.
May 7, 2023 13:42:12 #
mwsilvers wrote:
Perhaps what the salesman really meant was that many people have no interest in taking the time and effort learning how to nail focus with manual focus lenses.
Or exposure in M.
May 7, 2023 13:45:13 #
May 7, 2023 13:59:38 #
jerryc41 wrote:
The nice thing about photography is there's always something to shoot. I can look around the room I'm in now and see possibilities for shots. Lighting, angles, combinations of elements - there are lots of possibilities all around us. I haven't changed my "focus." I still shoot anything and everything.
totally agree with you!!
May 7, 2023 14:21:50 #
mwsilvers wrote:
Perhaps what the salesman really meant was that many people have no interest in taking the time and effort learning how to nail focus with manual focus lenses. And, of course, using manual focus lenses on a DSLR is more difficult than on a mirrorless camera which has focus peaking and image magnification through the viewfinder.
I do use a mirrorless camera for street Fujifilm x-pro3, but still when I focus on m dslr it's not that difficult 🤔
May 7, 2023 14:54:05 #
Imagemine wrote:
Since I don't travel as much as in the past few years for obvious reasons, I have grown to like urban & street photography in mostly B&W unless there are lots of colored layers to show. How many other hoggers have altered their images?
I post-process color to monochrome a lot, usually using NIK Silver Efex Pro.
May 7, 2023 15:10:49 #
May 7, 2023 15:15:54 #
epd1947 wrote:
Yes - such viewing filters do have exist - but ......
May 7, 2023 15:26:55 #
DWU2 wrote:
I post-process color to monochrome a lot, usually using NIK Silver Efex Pro.
I get the results I want from the Fujifilm film recipes & pp in LR
May 7, 2023 17:20:58 #
Luft93
Loc: Finger Lakes, NY
Imagemine wrote:
Like the way you know your limits & still find a way to do your thing, agree getting old does suck
About old age sucking:
Breathing beats not breathing.
Using a walker beats a wheelchair.
Using a wheelchair beats confined to a bed.
Good memories beat feeling sorry for yourself.
Life is better than never having been born.
Consciousness is a miracle i. Get all you can.
Attitude is everything. Accept. Compensate.
Thrill at waking each morning, someday you won’t wake.
Tomorrow is my 94.583 , month by month, one day at a time.
No complaints, have had a lot more than my share of ills.
Have had a great life,. You make your own luck.
Just live it out, it will be gone too soon.
May 7, 2023 17:52:14 #
I have just rekindled my interest in B&W after deciding that 2024 will be my last calendars. I'm really enjoying the new challenge.
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