Autumn Colours at Santon Downham 1

Perhaps due to the lack of frost, it has not been a great year for autumn colours with a lot of leaves shrivelling before falling but there were enough colourful trees at Santon Downham to keep our small party from CCC happy playing with ICM and Multiple exposure. I used two different camera systems - the morning set here were handheld with the Fuji X100V which has the facility to take multiple exposure and to change blending modes. Most of these are only 2 exposures in Average mode - for instance, the first image has one out of focus image blended with an in-focus image. Images 3 and 6 have a colour temperature change between exposures etc!

CCC Outing to Grantchester

Eighteen members of our camera club met up for a walk along the river in Grantchester. I travelled light with just my X100V compact and a closeup filter. I wanted to capture the abundant Banded Demoiselles and Mayflies in their habitat as with images 3-5 but I also took some at wide aperture that needed focus stacking to complete. 

As the Fuji does complicated multiexposure, I also played around with that using different blending modes and some intentional camera movement.

 

Christmas Lights 2

A few images of toft's christmas lights using camera movement and defocusing to give some different effects - the subject and result in the first three pairs.

Creative woodlands AKA Poor Camera Control

I was using my Fuji compact camera yesterday to shoot fungi with its very sensitive screen control. as I returned it to my neck, I obviously touched the screen on a few occasions where I hadn't turned the camera off. I like these 10 examples - I am sure I can't repeat any deliberately.

Wandlebury Trees and Leaves at F1.8

Yesterday was Cambridge Camera Club 'outing' to local beech and mixed woodland in search of fungi and autumn colours. Well with the new Covid regulation, it couldn't be an outing in CCC tradition of being able to explore in a group sharing our screens and  subjects. However, it was good to get out and see people at a social distance. The fungi were very sparse (blog to follow) so I spent much of the time using a legacy Olympus lens at F1.8 playing with composition, depth of field and focus point. Even did a bit of ICM exploring direction of camera movement in relation to result - the start colours will bleed into the finish colours so with these autumn colours different results for 'up' or 'down' respectively. 

Hunstanton - Final Images

Just four images to complete the set from our 2 days in Hunstanton and Titchwell - colours of the beaches through the day