andrew_morton2

EF-S 24mm

I just looked him up. You can see the pics scattered across various posts even if you don't have a FB account (I don't anymore). The photos are beautiful. His domain is parked, so no looking at them on a website.

77D and 100-400. Art Deco - Cincinnati Union Terminal.

77D and 50 f/1.8. I upgraded my 50 to the new metal mount. The focusing motor on the old one was loud enough to wake the neighbors.

Canon 77D and 50 f/1.8. She asked that I not share this photo with the police, because it is evidence of her standing in the middle of the road. ;)

Thanks for the link, digitaldog. Just watched the whole thing, very helpful.

Harpswell, Maine

Nothing crazy here: straightened the pole, my first observation brought up exposure +2EV to properly expose snow used the burn tool to bring down the sky exposure -.3 warmed up the color temp a bit overall color saturation +10 sharpening +30

I think there's also a somewhat arbitrary distinction about when "editing" occurs. In the continuity of the process, there are a lot of edits, or choices, I make about a photograph long before it hits my harddrive, or the sensor captures the exposure. Up +1EV or down -1.5EV to achieve a certain exposure, a shallow DOF to isolate a subject (an edit that doesn't resemble how we see things naturally), moving two feet to the side to crop out something I deem a distraction, coming back to a scene when the light is right, because that's what makes the photo look good, etc. My most important edit has been to just not take the picture, or prodigious use of the delete button.

COVID-19 homeschooling. Canon 77D and EF-S 24mm

Eastern Phoebe - Canon 77D and 100-400

Trying to stay creative and focused on photography while staying at home. Canon 77D and 24mm f/2.8 EF-S

Northern Harrier. Canon 77d and 100-400. New to capturing birds, so I learned a lot in the hour I spent outside trying to get a good shot of him.

I used the "Ansel Adams Back Deck" plug-in for LightRoom. That pulls up the contrast, increases the blacks, saturates the blue in the sky and then converts to B&W. Cropped to the same ratio to remove the grill. Suitable for framing.

Lots of B&W shooting this week - experimenting with exposure, composition, etc. Canon 77d and 100-400L

A few thoughts after reading your question and others' responses: I've found having a project/theme to my photography engages me more than just being out and taking pictures of whatever I've found (sometimes that's fun though). I look at others' work a lot, which is often simultaneoulsy inspiring and demoralizing. It gives me fresh ideas, but I try hard to not mimic either. One of the factors that got me into photography were the captivating images in National Geographic, or the well-known photos of the Works Progress Administration. I think many of us imagine that the most captivating photos are taken by photographers who take them one after another. What we don't know are how many they delete or don't present. For example, I went to the Library of Congress website to look at WPA photos and found I had made this assumption - a lot of those photos are neat from a historical perspective, even if the shots were just of street corners and didn't have a lot of soul. And lastly, this is probably a developmental component of artistry - once you've reasonably got the technical components down, it takes longer to find your own voice in it.

This one was hard to get.