A bit of a departure for Joe here as he takes his family off to New Mexico for a holiday. Like most photographers though, there was no option but to take one or two (or four) cameras and it’s a good job he did otherwise there would be nothing here this month. The pictures include a photograph taken on Joe’s Panasonic LX5, a very capable camera and one I’ve been using myself (the photographs in the Photographer’s Place article were taken on it).
First Light – Family Holidays
March 21, 2011
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Tim Parkin
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Joe Cornish
Thanks Mike. If you have not been to Monument Valley, and your route takes you through it, then do give it a chance. I was lucky enough to visit there 30 years ago, so for me the commercialisation is more noticeable. But none of that can spoil the fact that as natural rock sculpture this is still one of the Wonders of the world.
On March 28, 2011 at 10:51 pm • Reply
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An interesting set of pictures Joe, and a superb photographic base location for an extended photo trip. I’ve stayed three or four times in the City of Bluff (yes they call it a city despite its being hamlet sized!) at the Recapture Lodge whilst on a couple of photo workshops and photo trips. An edition a few years ago of the Lonely Planet Guide to the South West USA featured a photograph of this old car on the front cover parked by the roadside in front of the Cow Canyon Trading Post.
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I enjoyed that set of 3 chats from Joe. Amazing light on that first one!
Any chance you can make the cursor larger when Joe is talking about the pictures. He tends to point out areas of a picture that are of interest, and with the cursor so small (and with the mid & low bandwidth videos) it’s very hard to understand what he’s referring to. I’m sure there will be some “cursor enlarging” apps for that Mac.
On March 25, 2011 at 6:56 pm • Reply-
Andrew – I’ve already asked Tim about this (off line) and he says he’s looking at what he can do. But he has a few weeks work of work already recorded so we should see a larger cursor in due course.
Steve GledhillOn March 26, 2011 at 8:39 pm • Reply
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Lovely images… the 1st appears to be like an HDR image due to the lack of contrast.. the shadow detail appears somewhat too light….the luminosity must of been extreme!
I really like your car image and the comp as colours.
I have an Lumix LUX5 to. Its not bad for such a small sensor, but that size unfortunately does produce noise. I dont really use mine above iso 400.
Made me laugh regarding the small camera/ tripod. I dont think there is nothing wrong with using a tripod for small cameras… no matter the size. What you have you have right? If it helps produce a good image thats what counts?! I’ve used a gitzo 1500 with my lx5 and my holga! It looks jokes… but it does the job.
Please do upload your son’s image… im intrigued!!
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Steve, yes there is a tendency for it to look hdr-like. Maybe I should tone down the colours and tones a bit. But then it wouldn’t feel like what it felt like…
The LX5 is good, and for what it is worth, I always prefer to use small sensor compacts at the base iso, even if it means risking motion blur. And I agree with you about small cameras on a tripod, it is fine to do so and it works great. But I also like the fact that off the tripod you may make more experimental, playful pictures. That can be its own form of creativity.
I will ask Tim if we can add Sam’s composition into this article somewhere.On March 28, 2011 at 10:58 pm • Reply
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