Late night at work tonight. Swapping routers out to the world. Went without a hitch, thank you very much!
Set my camera to full raw as opposed to just jpeg. I’m experimenting and learning the camera.
Drove to some likely suspects – the moon was and is spectacular, but I’m not wanting that tonight. Something different.
Drove by the Lincoln Home area and the library, and There It IS! The illuminated steeple of this church.
I had my 50mm prime lens on, so I had to take a bunch of overlapping shots to get it.
I still kept shooting all the way home, until my 2gig card was out of space. Only a bit over 100 shots when shooting raw format. The files are enormous.
Converted them to jpegs after some slight color correction in Lightroom (love the program – try it!). Then came the wrestling match with Autostitch. I finally had to turn off auto alignment. It kept putting out a very distorted picture. I was very pleased with the results.
One of the great photographers from my seminar said – when the light is bad, turn your subject around in a circle until you find the right light. The light is there, you just have to find it. She’s an available light shooter. Hardly any flash.
Finding the right scene and the right parameters in two sets of software to process the images took time and patience and a internal drive to get it right.
My efforts paid off tonight.
