{"id":9822,"date":"2014-02-23T19:39:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T19:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=9822"},"modified":"2014-02-24T11:29:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T11:29:13","slug":"day-one-searching-for-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=9822","title":{"rendered":"Day One – Searching for Color……."},"content":{"rendered":"

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First full day on the island and we made a quick trip to pick up groceries, and then got Sherelene to the pool! \u00a0Beautiful day here today, 84 degrees, and nice breeze! \u00a0I always find myself captivated by the colors, since I’ve spent grey winter in Kentucky! \u00a0I didn’t work to hard today, but I did try to capture some things that would help me get used to the X-T1. \u00a0Above some flowering bushes outside our building, with one green leave poking in, had to shoot it. The fold out LCD was a life save for this shot, I couldn’t get my head through the branches but with the LCD folded out, \u00a0I could compose, and check results without moving the camera. \u00a0Shot in Astia, starting to love that color simulation!<\/p>\n

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Below a grab shot on the side of the road, sure love their choice of paint down here! \u00a0ISO 400, hand-held from the car window, car was stopped off the road.<\/p>\n

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On the drive to the grocery store I saw this tree, thought it was a nice set of angles.<\/p>\n

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Also loved the Fuji Monochrome processed version! \u00a0This is in camera!!!!<\/p>\n

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Later today the light turned harsh, so if you get lemons, make lemonade! \u00a0I tried to find things that harsh light work for.<\/p>\n

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Finally, I did spend some time sleeping in the shade at the pool while Sherelene soaked in the sun, shot below made on the chase lounge after a nap!!!<\/p>\n

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Using color control points in Capture NX 2.0 I was able to darken the water, the pool edges and slightly \u00a0brighten the sky. Ala, Carl’s suggestion, I think he is right, it is better……<\/p>\n

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X-T1 notes so far: \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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1. \u00a0Metering is just like the X-E2, spot on, I rarely have to do much right out of the camera. \u00a0All the images are jpeg fine images.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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2. \u00a0I think Fuji has tweaked the colors a little in the film simulation modes, the Velvia is not as over the top, which is a good thing, I’m really falling in love with Astia, it was the setting for all these images today.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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3. \u00a0Now that I’m getting used to the new settings for the custom function buttons, it really speeds up operation and is lot more convenient that going back into the menus.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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4. \u00a0I continue to be amazed at the viewfinder, it is such \u00a0joy to use!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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More tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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  First full day on the island and we made a quick trip to pick up groceries, and then got Sherelene to the pool! \u00a0Beautiful day here today, 84 degrees, and nice breeze! \u00a0I always find myself captivated by the colors, since I’ve spent grey winter in Kentucky! \u00a0I didn’t work to hard today, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9833,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822\/revisions\/9833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}