Food and drink pictures

 

 Took these on the weekend, theres more food photos, but I'm still editing them.

 

 

Red man

 

 Yes I know it's not the greatest shot you've ever seen but I'd carried the camera, and flash for two hours and this was all I could see that caught my attention.  I think it was something like 800 iso, and auto white balance didn't like the red man so I use a fixed kelvin white balance 5500k I think.

Last nights evening sky

 

 Well heres a few more pics from last night.  These off my phone.  Now as I had a Canon 7d with me you may be wondering why I used my phone.  Well the answer is simple, convenience!

 You see the camera and 18-135mm len and battery grip are in a small bag, nice and easy to carry around for a 7 or 8 mile walk.  Trouble is the bag is just a tiny bit too small.  Yes the camera goes in and out, but it's a faff about, and you have to "jiggle" it about especially to get it out.

 Now if I take the grip off it fits in a lot easier, but I'm used to shooting with a grip, so all my cameras have one.  So instead of playing silly beggars and faffing about to get camera out, I whipped out my phone for these three shots.  Samsung A52s 5g

 

 

Sunset and sand.

 

Sunset and sand.  I hope you like these I suffer for my art!  You see I did a circular walk to get these.  That was fine right up to where I found a 7 foot bloody wall built right across the path.

 The other day I said I was feeling my age, I'd probably done about 5 miles when I got to the wall, bugger turning back, climbing itt was easy enough, jumping down the other side in the dark was no fun.  Being serious I'm too old and too stupid to be doing this any more.  I need to start acting my age

 All shot on a Canon 7d with an 18-135mm lens.

Hi iso image

 Modern cameras are getting better at shooting at high ISO, not too long ago anything over about 800 iso on a crop sensor camera was pushing it, and you'd get a very grainy/noisy image.

 Well the good news is the newer cameras are a lot better.  This image was shot at 12.800 iso, it's a crop sensor 24mp Canon entry level camera.   Ok it's been through photoshop and it's had some noise reduction added there, and resized down for the blog, but this is off a jpeg, not a raw file.

 Is it noisy, well yes it is a bit, and it's lost some sharpness, but is it useable?  I'd say it was pretty good considering.  I choose a subject with lots of plain areas as they'll show up the noise better..

To see a bigger image, right click on the open image and click view file, thats 3000x3000 (half full size)

More food photos

 

 This is the last of the batch of last weeks food photos.  Might have some more in a few days all being well.

Looking my age!

 

 A few days ago I mentioned feeling my age.  Indeed I was knackered (still am)  You see my problem is I dont like giving up, I still think I'm 30, sadly my body knows different.

 The day before yesterday, I was out searching a mountain for a missing person, now I easily covered a good few miles over fairly rough ground.  At one point two young women, warned me to be careful as the paths are dodgy.

 Blimey!  How old do I look?  Yes I do look a knackered old fart, but I still got around there, and did another 5 miler in the evening.  Did that two days running in fact.  Old I am,  But I'm not dead yet!

 So if your out and you see an old fart, dont patronise him or her, you might hurt their feeling.  And besides, they might ask what your doing in the woods, with no compass, no food, no water, no map, no shelter etc etc unlike them.

 The reason they lived to be old is by learning whats safe and whats not.  It's a woods ladies, not Paris fashion week!

Woodland walk pics.

 Spent this morning searching for a missing person near where I live.  Took a camera and got these few picturs.

Sunset and people

 

 Took these tonight.

 

 

A few food photos.

 A few food photos from this weekend.

Feeling my age.

 

 Truth be told I'm feeling my age now.  This week I've had two events and they've hammered me, one beat me if I'm honest, and I dont like giving up.  

Weddings are hard work from a photographers point of view, long days, heavy bag of camera gear to carry around, it's a young mans game if I'm honest, thats without the hassle of bridezillas, pissed grooms, late running, broken down wedding cars and the occasional akward vicar. Stressfull!

 To be fair this weeks wedding only had the late running, the groom was sober, the bride nice, the pastor very helpful, and the wedding car un-broken and on time, and again to be fair the late running was down to the caterers not the couple, not a big deal then.  Well yes in a way it was, it knackered me for getting group shots, parking was a bitch.  So stressfull as well, and as I say it's a young mans game.

I'm only just the right side of 70, in my mind I'm 30-something, and thats the trouble.  My mind say crack-on get it sorted.  My body on the other hand has other ideas, it wants to sit down down and chill out.  

Yesterday I had to strim a lawn, now yes the grass was bloody long, but I had a petrol strimmer (heavy bastard) I managed about a third and I was fucked, my back in agony (I have a long standing back problem/injury)  I struggled to sit down the rest of the evening.  My body is telling me it's time to slow down, pack in the heavy stuff.

 It really hit me yesterday that my age has caught up with me, I need to face facts I cant do what I used to do any more.  Time to put the superman costume away I think.  Pipe and slippers time for Wayne

Sunsets and seagulls 2023

 

 The reason 2023 is in the title is because I did a sunsets and seagulls some time ago.  These are from tonights susnset.  Canon 7d, mostly at 135mm.

 

 

A few random outdoor shots

 Took these the other day on a walk to somewhere I had intended to take photos.  Sadly the place I went was fenced off like fort knox so I didnt get in, I probably could have got over or around the fencing if I'd wanted, but I couldn't be arsed.

Flowers and things. Last pics (inc black and white pics)

 

 Well this is the end of this batch of flowers and things, hope to have some different shots in a few days.