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- Barrie
As part of my cunning plan to stave off insanity during the covid situation I've spent some time trying to set up satisfactory jpeg outputs from some of my Panasonic cameras. This morning was my first attempt at anything other than a standard test subject, the view from my kitchen door.
My landlord Graham was in his orchard pruning some of the apple trees. It used to be a productive cider orchard many years ago, Graham recently gave me copies of the farm diary from 1930 onwards and that showed worst year production rate of 2 tons, best years 14 tons. As you can deduce there were many more trees in the orchard then. Graham said that as a schoolboy in the autumn, if he wasn't at school, he ws out in the orchard bent double putting cider apples into sacks. There are still three or four of the old cider trees standing, sadly their names are lost to history, Graham is however planting new trees of old varieties, indeed 15 more are due in soon. From my taste testing of both eating and cooking apples I can testify that some of them are delicious.
These jpeg images have been tweaked for levels and a touch of sharpening added in GIMP, there has been no other processing or cropping.
My cottage is just above Graham's head, the large barn to the right is his workshop and the Dutch barn to the left is the home of my nearest neighbour, a barn owl!
I'm rather pleased with these images in terms of colour and tonal quality. As you can tell I'm neither a people photographer nor do I like saturated images, so these suit me well. Truth be told it was jpeg only by accident, I hadn't reset the camera to jpeg + raw, but in the event, nothing lost. Whatever it was good to get out after several days of grey skies and drizzle, I celebrated by going into Kingsbridge and getting some take away fish and chips!
Barrie
My landlord Graham was in his orchard pruning some of the apple trees. It used to be a productive cider orchard many years ago, Graham recently gave me copies of the farm diary from 1930 onwards and that showed worst year production rate of 2 tons, best years 14 tons. As you can deduce there were many more trees in the orchard then. Graham said that as a schoolboy in the autumn, if he wasn't at school, he ws out in the orchard bent double putting cider apples into sacks. There are still three or four of the old cider trees standing, sadly their names are lost to history, Graham is however planting new trees of old varieties, indeed 15 more are due in soon. From my taste testing of both eating and cooking apples I can testify that some of them are delicious.
These jpeg images have been tweaked for levels and a touch of sharpening added in GIMP, there has been no other processing or cropping.
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My cottage is just above Graham's head, the large barn to the right is his workshop and the Dutch barn to the left is the home of my nearest neighbour, a barn owl!
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I'm rather pleased with these images in terms of colour and tonal quality. As you can tell I'm neither a people photographer nor do I like saturated images, so these suit me well. Truth be told it was jpeg only by accident, I hadn't reset the camera to jpeg + raw, but in the event, nothing lost. Whatever it was good to get out after several days of grey skies and drizzle, I celebrated by going into Kingsbridge and getting some take away fish and chips!
Barrie