Glow

Jezzie.

Wordless Wednesday: Well-Loved

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White Balance Salvation?

I often struggle with white balance. Too cool, too warm, a bit green . . . The automatic settings on my Canon work sometimes, and other times not so much. Auto White Balance (AWB) often gets it wrong. I have a gray card, but more often than not, it stayed in my backpack. I’d read about the ExpoDisc 2.0 (link) a couple of times and decided to give it a try. Amazon has a money-back guarantee, so I figured I had nothing to lose.

I took it out for a brief spin yesterday and I am very happy with the results. It is super easy to use. You just hold it in front of your lens, snap a picture and use that image have the camera manually set the correct white balance. I thought this would be complicated, but it wasn’t. It takes all of fifteen seconds to do it. It’s small enough to fit in any bag I’m carrying my camera in, and so it will go with me anywhere my camera does. It will get a good test today, as I am going to be indoors under what I assume will be fluorescent lights.

Buddy in the backyard. It was cloudy yesterday (rain today!).

Buddy and tennis ball at his feet.

Jezebel in my office lit by window light.

Buddy by window light.

Needless to say, I won’t be returning the ExpoDisc. I love it.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Selfie

This week’s photo challenge called for something a bit different. I’ve been sitting on these after-the-shower photos for a few weeks now.

I eat, work, sleep, and dream in these earrings. With rare exception, I have them in my ears at all times. I feel naked without them.

Left.

Right.

The same goes for this necklace; a gift from my daughter. You can also see the shadow from my pacemaker and the insertion scar. My less-than-perfect heart – also me.

Snap!

iPhone Friday: Thumbs Up!

Happy Friday!

You don’t often see me this way

I forgot and left my glasses on.

This roll went to Buddy

Kodak Portra 400. It loved Buddy. From what I’ve read Portra makes for great skin tones, and obviously, when one’s subjects are all furry, that’s hard to see. I’ve got another roll of this in my camera right now.

These are the “regular” 72 dpi scans I received from The Darkroom which are fine for the web, but not for printing. When I receive the negatives, I will scan some of my favorites.

Click on any image to see a larger version.

Film – The First Roll

For some reason, my first roll of exposed film got set aside during the move and about a week ago, in my rummaging about, I “found” it again and sent it off. Therefore, these photos were taken before those I posted a while back. Much of this roll was not very good, as I was in unfamiliar territory (no chimping with film!) and I “forgot” I was shooting black and white film. Eventually, I started to pay attention to light and shadow, and a few came out okay.

Kodak 100 T-MAX.