Join me today for a photo outing to a state park. Beautiful area! This specific
spot I haven't taken photos at. I was glad to go out and get some exercise.
Take some photos. That's really the main goal there. Using the Canon EOS
30D and the 100 to 300 millimeter at 4.5 to 5.6 lens
That lens, at least my copy of it, is not great.
Pretty challenging to get decent photos out of it, but I made do.
And again, the main goal is to get some exercise...
Do some photography. It was raining, or at least drizzling off and on
throughout the photo outing.
Still beautiful weather for what it was. Nice time to take photos
when you can. And the gear is still working just fine, so no issues there.
This specific area has a large body of water and also
some structures to kind of divert it or manage that water...
So I walked down this path here. You can see it's used for maintenance or
something in some spots. But also still.. you can go down there. There's no
issues. Get some interesting views there that I haven't seen before,
most likely. And definitely some good photo opportunities. I saw some
interesting insects, birds, things like that.
And just the beautiful foliage. Anything of nature...
You can find good photo opportunities.
Once I was finished with this area, I went to the main park. Took more photos.
Walked around.. actually they did some construction in the main park. So now
there's a really large beautiful path that you can
take from the main dock area to the area with the flag.
Really great that they improved on that.
So it was worth the construction time, definitely.
With the photography, I was doing full manual. It's pretty easy to manage.
Usually I'm at ISO 100, or 200 in this case because it was
relatively dark for daytime. And shutter speeds, I was trying to do
1/400th of a second. Around that, but usually had to go a little bit lower
which might have contributed to some of the look of the photos. Which wasn't
great but still they turned out okay. I did try to use
small apertures, especially with this lens...
It's just not great image quality wise. So smaller apertures do help, but still
doing it handheld isn't a great combination. But you can
see the photos. See the results. Of course, I did edit
these. Tried to make them pop a little more. It was pretty drab looking
given the conditions. If you add the color in post it'll work out just fine.
Anyways, hope you enjoyed this video
Nice calm photo outing.
Scott of Photography Banzai, thanks!