My blog, although I don’t see myself as a blogger but as a Photographer I will try to blog some interesting material during the weeks.
Expect at least 2 updates a week.
Now I never ever called myself a landscape photographer, let’s be honest… I love movement, I love people, I love street scenes, but landscapes was never really my thing. However sometimes you visit areas where you just are breathless by the beauty of the landscape, and because I did watch some of my buddy Moose Peterson’s classes on Kelbytraining I thought why not, let’s shoot some landscapes. Today a collection of my fav shots from the trip through the Scottish highlands.
Ever since I switched to the A99 I’ve been experimenting with certain options that the A99 offers, one of the options I find interesting is the Panorama mode, now I’ve owned some cameras that create nice panoramas but not to jump up and down for, however what the A99 delivers is pretty sweat. The resolution is more than enough for large prints and the stitching in camera is very good. Today some of the panoramas I created during our UK tour.
In the Sony you can actually set the panoramas for :
Left to right
Right to left
Top to bottom
Bottom to top
Wide or standard
These were all done on the standard setting.
The resolution of a panorama is app : 8200 x 1856 pixels
When You’re in the UK and Scotland you of course HAVE to see some castles.
So today a selection of the castles we found during our trip.
Everyone that saw my class on Kelbytraining “The Art of Dance” saw me wearing a brace on some of the videos, well the story behind that is very short. I’m flexible but found out that there is a limit to that also :D, during a shoot with RC I squatted down really low and while coming up there was a big “KNACK” and a LOAD of pain. Now being the person I am I thought that it would heal by itself and I struggled on during the filming of my Kelbytraining classes. When I got home I decided it was time for some rest which made matters worse, when I asked my doctor if I could sport he said it would probably be ok, so when I started to sport again everything indeed improved and I thought that it would heal over time, which actually it did (I thought), but I did keep feeling pain on most days and on some movements.
A few weeks ago I decided it was time to take action, walking around with pain all the time was just not “fun” anymore.
The first thing we did was an MRI scan and very soon it was clear that I had not one but two tears in my meniscus, yeah…. pfff that would mean surgery. Now to be honest I never expected it to be this fast because today, while you’re reading this, I’m in the hospital undergoing the surgery.
I can’t yet comment on the surgery itself, but I hope I can tomorrow 😀
What they told me it’s a 35 minute procedure and you can watch, it’s like a hospital TV show starring…. yourself…. I will probably just bring my iPhone and listen to some music if I think I’m gonna faint, but I guess I will be watching the whole show 😀
Recovery time will be app. 1 week with 2 crutches and doing NOTHING (well that will be a first), and 1-2 weeks with one crutch and doing only some computer work…. pffff talk about being frustrating times, on the other hand the last few years has been VERY hectic and the longest I was ever free in a row was 2 days so I think it’s time to catch up with some movies, play some Call of Duty and sleep in every day… sounds boring….. although….. well every cloud has a silver lining I guess.
For the blog it also means some chances, but not in a bad way.
Over the coming two weeks you will be treated to some cool shots from our trip to the UK, a whole series on “the love for vintage cameras and lenses” and of course some new images from shoots we did before the surgery which I have been retouching the last few days, so you still will have a blog update every day, some things are just spread out a bit more.
If someone feels to write a guestblog in between just let me know, from the second week I will be working a lot from my laptop so I will be more online, I expect the first week to be the worst and I will probably only be online from my phone or iPad, but who knows it all will go easier than expected. So for now…… enjoy the day (I hope I do) and enjoy the blog the coming days 😀
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