Photography

The first post-processed image taken by camera that I felt good about.

*Canon means Canon M6 Mark II

From Reddit, on overusing lightroom slider:

[transcripted] If your eyes still like the photo after looking at it for a period of time, then its good.

From Sigma Magazine

We live in a world where images are plentiful, and we often draw inspiration from the vision of others, but it’s a different connection when the inspiration comes from something you’ve captured yourself.

Updates

20220214

Been back from the trip to Hubei, and was processing shots from the trip yesterday night. Had a strong feeling of reaching a bottleneck of how to post-processing photos. Feels like needing a lot of new ideas and concepts and standards and new perspectives for seeing through the photos.

20211230

window view on my working desk to the building on the oppisite

what's good

• the green-ish gem color of the buildings outer window
• the dotted sun shades scattered on the outer wall of the building
• the yellow-yet-green color of the outer wall of the building looking through the (green-tilted) window of my office
• the nice, clean, pure white curtain of our office
• the multi shades of the window border of our office

specs

• frame [!]

• detail

  • sharpness

• color

  • color grading tutorials on mobile lr app
  • color space ?
  • hue / saturation / luminance

• effects

  • dehaze
  • clarity / texture
  • venieting

• light

  • exposure
  • highlights
  • shadows
  • black
  • white
  • exporsure / RGB tone curve

2021

August, I bought two lens for my Canon

• canon 22mm f/2 prime (1500RMB)

• canon efs 55-250 f/4-5.6 telephoto zoom with vitrox ef-m adaptor ( 1200 for lens 200 for adaptor)

• Understands better about relationships between focal length and perspective

• 22mm prime opens up way more oppertunities for indoor lowlight pet shoottings

thoughts

need to know more about tele lens usage

curious about whether to buy a wide lens

start to browse lens-specific topics on flickr(very useful)

start to apply after effects using tools like lightroom

how i decide lens

2020

Bought my first serious mirrorless camera, which is a Canon M6 Mark II with kit lens 15-45 mm. Reasons for choice

Read it's manual(600pages)

Read two books about photography

understand basic camera opperations, and basic exposure stuff

thoughts

• trying to figure out what lens to buy

Standards

What makes a photography good & meaningful

I feel it's hard to judge a photograph becuase the meaning is subjective to whoever is watching it. This becomes a question of how to make the photo be more meaningful to you, or how to convery/elaborate more meaing to others that are not present when the photo is taken.

reasons

I need/can afford aps-c for more serious yet experimental photography learning

I own one nikon P300 back in collage and wasn't making good use of it.

I went to Local Sony Store with all kinds of a6-a9 machines and wasn't fond of the feel of it

My friend already owns a fujifilm xt-40

lensreason

read reviews of course, but mostly I would go to flickr to see photos from the group of the specific lens. If there's quite a lot of photos I like, then the lens should be promising for me.

Qs

• the mist feelings?
  • https://unsplash.com/photos/SnDH8yZ_ma4
  • https://unsplash.com/photos/YN0caoh1KQM
• is this all it gots? dull scenery with low shutter speed ?
  • https://unsplash.com/photos/EmslqNTaO-U
• hasselblad ? https://unsplash.com/photos/0QL1sX96-9s
• maybe start from color series?
  • https://unsplash.com/photos/Qfmd7kQQc3g