Fade Out, Vividly.

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Plus a couple more (after the jump) from last night that I couldn't post because of IG's odd attitude to mixed aspect ratio photos.

It turns out I'd forgotten how useful an internal flash can be, and the X100V has reminded me.
The acorn shot needed a little touch of fill light to get proper exposure on the subject while keeping some colour and detail in the sky. The internal flash, turned way down to (I think) 1/64 power, was perfect for this.
Also: Dog tax! I've been looking after Bailey while his mum's on holiday, so I thought I'd better get a shot of him in somewhere!

On The Turn

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The year is certainly moving on quite visibly now. It's been a couple of weeks since I walked in this park, and I really noticed the difference tonight.

It appears that the reward for half-killing myself last week extinguishing metaphorical fires is a similarly metaphorical conflagration of such proportions that it risks consuming my desk, everything on it, and most of what has passed across it in the last two years.
How fabulous.

Have A Wobble

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I did.

Sundowner

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I finally got round to putting the drone up again this evening.
Another 37 minutes in the log, and I don't think the photo is too bad either!

Sunny Character

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This one's probably going to be my submission for this week's @52frames #52frames_lowkey challenge.
As I used a single flash, this one's eligible for the EC this week.

Messing Around In The Dark

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It was quite late when I went out this evening, and the light was fading fast. I spotted this heron and thought I'd give it a go regardless.

Modern cameras and Lightroom are amazing.
This was shot at ISO 12,800 (yay for high ISO performance and Lightroom's noise reduction), 1/25 sec at 200mm (yay for image stabilisation), with the lens wide open at f/2.8
For the uninitiated, that shutter speed is almost 10 times slower than the usual rule of thumb would dictate, and I'm not the most steady-handed of people at the best of times.

I'm not unhappy with this under the circumstances.

I've put the straight out of camera image after the jump. This is why photographers won't give you their RAW files 😁

No / No / Maybe

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Almost made it to the bank holiday...
For the first time in what feels like forever, I had my office to myself today. Despite the now ever-present background din and cacophony from the workshop, it was a very welcome change.

This bridge is currently being repainted, and they have placed buoys and signal lights on it, so I thought I'd capture it with the extra lights before they're gone.