magnificent magnolia

[piranha]

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i went to butchart gardens and all i got was 650 photos.

love my camera. it has enough battery time to actually shoot that number and still have some left.

i haven't even sorted through them all. am working on a work flow that lets me upload a whole chunk for people to look at when i do major shoots that actually come up with quite a few worthwhile ones.

did two caches as well, but am too tired to log them now. the finger is healing nicely, and i can use my hand again without hurting it all the time.

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[treesahquiche]

That photo is gorgeous! I'm glad that I get to see the fruits of your camera-labor.

Also, hooray for the healing finger!

[piranha]

thanks! i really want to post a whole lot of this shoot because it really cheered me up.

[green_knight]

When people talk about the lost cost of digital pictures they tend to forget to tell you that sorting them takes up a lot of time. I often find it hardest to evaluate similar shots - if that had been my photo trip, I'd now have twenty closeups of magnolia flowers - deciding which one is 'the best' often takes more time than sorting out the obvious problem images.

[piranha]

as i get better, this becomes harder. yeah, i have probably 20 magnolia closeups in this set. :) i try and make it easy on myself, and only toss the truly crappy ones. storage is cheap, and i can keep anything that's halfway decent. and i pick the daily not necessarily from the best, but only from those that speak to me at the time. for the most part i try to avoid picking "the best", because it leads me to choice paralysis.

best investment i made was to get adobe lightroom and a keyword dictionary. that means everything is getting well-categorized, and over time i can weed the categories with a sort of stepwise refinement. and to pick the daily i go through the day's set and flag the ones i like, which then makes picking one easier. sometimes i pick one according to whatever lyrics or random quote run through my mind.

magnolias, btw, suck. they often have flaws which i don't see until i sort through the images. :)

[seryn]

That's a nice picture.

Did you enjoy Butchart Gardens? I haven't been there even though I've been to Victoria.

I have a similar camera to yours (same brand, model minus several years). I'm glad to hear the battery life didn't change. I bought mine because of the gyroscopic stabilization.

Even though knitting blogs are all about the pictures; I can barely stand the sheer amount of effort it takes to shoot, decant, review, tag, upload, and link the pictures.

[piranha]

i enjoy butchart gardens; mainly because it makes it so easy to photograph flowers. i have an annual pass and try to go 3 or 4 times a year. i especially like the japanese garden on a weekday in early spring or fall; it's very restful (and the crowds aren't as bad as they are in the summer and on weekends).

yeah, the image stabilization is also very good; i am amazed how well i can shoot at the end of its tele range and in low-light conditions.

i am terribly lax about shooting my craft projects. :/

[holyschist]

Oh, wow! We used to go there fairly often when I was a kid, but I haven't been in 15+ years. I'm kind of impressed you got out with only 650 photos.

(Were there any artichokes in bloom?)

[piranha]

i only had 3 hours! ;)

i didn't see any artichokes at all, nevermind in bloom. wouldn't it be too early for that?

[holyschist]

That's pretty impressive, then. O_o

I have no idea! I just remember seeing an artichoke there when I was a kid and thinking it was SO AWESOME. No idea what time of year or if they still have them.