Removing your shoes isn’t required when visiting Cannon Beach, but it does make it more enjoyable.
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Golden fishing
A small fish-processing depot in Astoria
By the dawn’s early light
The Columbia River this morning
River lights
I’m at the mouth of the Columbia River, in Astoria, Oregon. It’s quite a river. The bridge that crosses it here is about 4 miles long. Here’s a little bit of it:
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I had a surreal experience as I drove across the lower sections. Several species of birds were enjoying the updraft that the bridge and vehicles provided. I looked out of my car window at one point to see five large pelicans hovering, almost stationary, just a few feet from my wing mirror.
That’s when you wish you didn’t have to concentrate on the driving.
Mistress of all she surveys
Or so she believes, anyway…
Shiny
We visited a fine Berkshire hotel at the weekend, and I did like this natty little Lagonda in the car park…
Post-processing RAW for Fujifilm cameras
One thing for which the Fujifilm cameras (such as my beloved X-Pro1) are known is their impressive on-board JPEG converter, which can produce sufficiently yummy images that many people who would otherwise shoot RAW just stick to JPEG with these devices.
I, however, want to stick with RAW, and I found that getting the best out of it takes rather more initial tweaking with the Fuji cameras than it did, say, with my Canon. I eventually settled on a small boost to the saturation (+13), and quite a large amount of sharpening (+60), and saved that as a Lightroom preset which I now apply as I import any images coming from the X-Pro1.
However, the biggest improvement came, I think, when Adobe Camera Raw (the engine behind Lightroom & Photoshop imports) was upgraded a couple of months ago. One of the easy-to-miss features was the inclusion of Fujifilm camera profiles which mimic the film emulation modes found in the camera. Even when I had upgraded and knew it was there, it was still a little tricky to find, but it’s under the Camera Calibration section of the Develop module:
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I’ve found that experimenting with these profiles, and particularly using the VELVIA emulation while reducing my previous saturation setting a little, can bring much more richness to the colours.
Green
Wandlebury, this morning.
Street furniture
So Fred and me, we ‘ad a cup o’ tea…
Shut it
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