Because it was a late night last night, people sleep in. We do have long days, and they are intensive.
Photographing is only part of what we all do. Long gone are the days when one dropped off the film at the lab and that was it. Well, one did have to go through a edit the processed film, but all one had to do after that is stamp the slides with one’s copyright notice.
Cameras, however, are computers. Ones and zeros. That, after all, is the binary system. Black and white, when you think about it.
It’s the amazing programs that Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Sony, etc. make that turn these images back into color. But, Canon and Nikon, for example, render color differently from one another. As one of the people in our group said, we all see color differently. Sometimes, when we show participants how to bring out a certain color, they don’t realize how much blue is in that color, or violet, or magenta. Others see it right away.
And so, we bring the images in to our computers and modify what our camera manufactures have decided is good into what we want out of our images.
It takes time and patience. No more one-hour processing for many rolls of film.
The light is Tuscany is beautiful. It only enhances the landscape.
There is an iconic image from this part of Italy. Many will recognize the scene from the movie Under the Tuscan Sun. For me, it is a good place to do a panorama. Some people worked on panoramas at the old, abandoned house and wheat fields. More want to do one here, and so, I show them the subtleties of setting up the images that will be stitched into one. It take practice to envision the pano before you actually create one, but I love the results.
We wanted to go to a little, local, pop-and-son restaurant around the corner from our hotel. The food is quite tasty and very reasonable. They were closed last night. We get there in time and sit down to enjoy a good meal.
Everyone is tired and ready for bed. As we often tell them, “Sleep fast!” I know we did!
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Margo:
Do I see in-camera warming on these images? It certainly creates a very distinct mood. I remember shooting with Arnie in Belize and his use of color temperature in camera to create a “night” shot of a cottonwood tree in the late afternoon. Nice and simple, but very dramatic. Wonderful images. Thanks for letting me live vicariously through your and Arnie’s images and your prose. Dave
Yes, Dave, you do see the use of Kelvin. As we keep saying, we are interpreting, not recording. It was warm, for sure, but I wanted that little bit more.
It has been fun having you comment when you got the chance. I know how hard it is when you are traveling yourself.
Take care, and we’ll see you soon for the reception!
TBC