11.05.2018

And, of course, as all the experts know, it's "impossible" to photograph buildings of any kind with a small sensor camera. There are laws against it.

 I have been told several times that Panasonic cameras can't "handle" red.
But I disagree. 

this is actually the house (behind the church) of the president of Iceland.
While there isn't a need for much security they do discourage 
you from ringing the doorbell too early in the morning.


I think they also do a good job of rendering blues. 
And differentiating between different shades of blue.




An external showcase for some of the great photography at a small 
gallery in Reykjavik. 







There's that pesky perfect red again....













In all seriousness I do find that people run into color problems when they are overly reliant on automatic white balance.  Cameras try hard to get things right but it's so, so much easier in broad daylight (full sun), cloudy days and subject in areas of open shade, to just select the right little icon from the menu and set it. Then the colors don't shift from frame to frame. A real consideration when using Jpegs where post production color correction is less accurate and certain. Every photograph could make their own post production easier and get better color results by using the WB Presets or doing a custom white balance. Easy stuff. It becomes second nature over time. Like putting on one's seat belt when starting up a car...

Nice green, I think.

6 comments:

Joe Reed said...

Thank you for your blog. I look every day to see what you have posted. Good to see photographs of some other parts of Iceland. I think you would go nuts shooting people in Cuba.

Dogster said...

Simply wonderful, thank you. I totally enjoyed your posts from this morning also. Might have been yesterday. But thank you for your blog, I love it. You are my photographer hero.

Anonymous said...

Je pense que c'est un manga d'une qualité rare.

EdPledger said...

Tip of the cap to the house painters of Iceland, the colorful palette enlivens the neighborhoods and landscape. The presidential residence is a glaring example of how fear and a militaristic lifestyle need not exist in modern society. While I know the police are present, as I have read numerous books involving crime in Reykjavik, we were there for 6 days in a rented car driving all around the west side of the island, and I saw no police vehicles, zero, zip, none. That fact didn’t really dawn on me till we left, but on reflection, even though the city streets had Austin-like traffic at times, No cops. Perhaps that was a very uncharacteristic and misleading sample, as we never got into shadier hoods. Did you notice anything similar?

Anonymous said...

I know it's obvious to you, but...when you say "just select the right little icon from the menu and set it" - you mean go to WB and select: sunny, shadow, cloudy, incandescent etc? Is that all?

Lynn Cox said...

I enjoy reading your blog every day.
You always do a bang up job photographing buildings and you have a wonderful sense of color.
Speaking of spec sheet wonks. This is interesting look at people who can't tell a 1080 screen from a lower resolution screen and pick the low res every time.
https://youtu.be/dcFXEXJicgc