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Using Dylan’s SUV, Sam and I were able to get a slightly higher shot than usual here outside of Waverly.
As I walked along this fence line looking for the spot that I had come through, this section caught my eye. It made me think about making do with what you have. Reusing the same old barbed wire, wrap it around the old oak tree, add a few metal post, and it's good for several more years. Happy Fence Friday everyone.
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With my liking for using welding glass for long exposures, thought I should give it a try on this camera.
One problem though, a brand new memory card with no preset white balances saved and no white card to take a reading from.
So time to improvise on the spot, which is quite easy.
First take a shot with the white balance at a normal setting (see below), then use that image to set the custom white balance on the camera.
Maybe not perfect, but does give a reasonable result, there have been no adjustments to this in post production.
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This weekend's weather turned out to be nicer than the total washout the weatherman was predicting. It was warm with nice cloud cover on Saturday afternoon, so I decided to venture out to Cub Run for some long exposures.
I loaded my gear and my husband, who even though he had a headache insisted on coming along to protect me, into the car and we drove the 45 minutes out to Cub Run. I imagined with the rain we've had lately that the stream would be running well, and it was. I excitedly pick a scenic spot, set up my tripod, got out my camera and... SHIT. Actually, I said different 4-letter word. The F-Word. Several times in fact. In less than a second my entire trip had been rendered useless when I realized, standing there in the middle of the woods, that I had left my quick release plate at home. I had no way of attaching my camera to the tripod. More F-Words ensued.
I eventually got a grip and decided to improvise. I refused to waste all that gas for nothing. There are plenty of rocks along the edge of Cub Run, or as I like to call them, "nature's tripods". After all, it's not the first time I've found myself without a functioning tripod in the middle of the woods!
A pileated woodpecker feeding from the hanging suet feeder (and off it's belly) which is uncommon, but it had already cleaned out the log feeder it usually visits.
It was pretty windy this day, which likely made the hanging feeder trickier to use, but it was the only feeder with the woodpecker's favorite food (that we have to offer)
Visit my instagram page to see the video of it eating from the suet cage (and off it's belly) as well as licking remnants off the other feeder, www.instagram.com/mattmolloyphoto/
Taken at the 2019 Piedmont Founder's Day celebration
Each of the volunteers was asked to play a game of charades where the audience had to guess the action
I have no idea how Lisa managed to crawl into that tight space, but she did. Just so you understand how small it is: once you're down there, you can even move your head from left to right... there is no space for that.
On the video you will really see how challenging it was... I will post it soon ;-)