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It’s rehearsal week for Huntsville Ballet Company again so I’m shooting pictures when I’m not moving props or backdrops around. I love the dramatic lighting and color you get on stage. Not quite as good in the early rehearsals as it is in the later ones with full costumes and with the lighting set to what it will be in the show but it’s still pretty.
It’s really amazing what a little bit of post processing can do with pictures, especially when you are shooting in raw. These are the before and after shots of the blue heron I shot last night.
All were shot hand held  on a Canon T5i with a Tokina AT-X 400AF 400mm using manual focus.
Nothing major in the post processing but huge differences.
I cropped just a bit to improve the framing since I was shooting a moving animal and didn’t always have the time to do it in the camera even if it was moving slow.
In Lightroom, on most I increased the clarity +26, vibrance and saturation +17, contrast +2 and exposure +0.24. The other one was fairly close to that. Continue reading “Before and After Post Processing of Last Night’s Blue Heron Pictures”
Saw this blue heron fly over to the neighborhood pond this evening and I wandered over with my camera with my. My best shots were my hand held and manually focused. The bird cooperated nicely but then again you don’t have to get too close with a 400mm so it didn’t get spooked.
Instead of doing a normal Christmas we went skiing at Sugar Mountain in North Carolina. Matthew and Meghan both took friends.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any dance pictures. I got some good ones during Nutcracker rehearsal this year.
I passed by Wright-Patt Air Force base many times over the years with all the trips between Oklahoma and Pennsylvania or New York and always wanted to stop at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. I’m in Columbus, OH for work and Wright-Patt just over an hour away so I headed down there for the day. Get collection of warbirds and lots of good nose art there. Here are the better shots of the planes I took today.
