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Blossoms in front of the observatory

Exposure time: 1/4000 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO:1250

239 - inverted color

Part of the process of creating the HDR images from yesterday involves making "masks". This one is from (and for) the lightest of the three images I combined, which was used to show the proper colors for the branches and blossoms. I actually really liked this image on its own, which was made by first desaturating it and then inverted the colors.

238 - a sad attempt at HDR

This is what happens when you try to make an HDR (high dynamic range) photo on a windy day without using a tripod.

Two photos in one post as well! I figure two sad photos makes it worth blogging about? I did learn from this that the Gimp edits for combining photos in this way is really not terribly time consuming or challenging. So at least now I have the motivation of knowing I'll be able to do that part of it, in order to take the time to take the photos properly. Unfortunately, now is not the time for carefully taking photos, so until then, you get this. Oh and one cool photo that I'll post tomorrow.

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Some blossoms at the Coop. I don't actually know what these are.

Exposure time: 1/500 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 640

eleventy four

And one big close-up blossom!

Exposure time: 1/50 s
Aperture: f/29.0
ISO: 800

eleventy three

Similar to yesterday's photo, but I liked them both and didn't want to have to choose one over the other :)

Exposure time: 1/50 s
Aperture: f/29.0
ISO: 800

Not sure how I ended up at an ISO of 800. I probably just never changed it from when we took pictures of Lamby!

eleventy two

Yesterday I was feeling quite golden so I decided to try to take some photos during the golden hour. Technically these were taken a bit before the last hour of sunlight, but that is close enough for me.



It is Spring in the Upper Valley!!

Exposure time: 1/80 s
Aperture: f/32.0
ISO: 800