Photo Shoot

Today, Gale and I went on a little road trip to find something to take photos off. She has a new camera, which is awesome, and I get to use her old one, which is also awesome. We went down to the Bloomington area. There are a few state parks there which have waterfalls.

I wanted to get a shot of a waterfall taken at quite a long exposure in order to blur thewater into etheral glowing er... water, which meant a tiny apparture. But today was pretty bright out and I couldn't really get shots as long as I wanted and ended up with this:



Which is a little washed out. Luckily, I took it in raw mode rather than jpeg. Most cameras store pictures in jpeg, which is highly comrpessed and a lot of information is removed to reduce the size. With raw images, there's a lot more information stored in the photo. So with photoshop I was able to access a lot of this info and managed to bring the exposure down to a better level and managed to create this:



Which I'm totally happy with. I took quite a few photos, but this is probably my favourite. Gale also took a load and seems very happy with her new camera and lens.

All in all, a good day.