Panasonic LX3, Nassau, Bahamas, street scenes, downtown

Unprocessed candids from a walk-about in downtown Nassau, July 2013.

 

Panasonic LX3 / Nassau / Bahamas / downtown

Not the best day in Northwest Arkansas so I rolled back time a bit and loaded some shots from Nassau from last July. I took three cameras with me. The NX10 because I have a fisheye I like with it, the Canon M, for its small size and excellent sensor and processing and an LX3 because it performs above its weight class and is a great carry along. Today's shot is from the LX3 which I took with me walking around downtown Nassau.

Two shots, merged in Photoshop with zip added in Topaz.

Sigma DP2 / Waves of Grain

Fuji X-F1 / Monochrome / HDR / New Farmington, AR library / state funds presentation

Fuji X-F1 / HDR / Northwest Arkansas Mall / Razorback store / wide angle

The X-F1 is currently my favorite pocketable camera. Small, lightweight, great build quality, quality photographic experience, decent sized sensor and well, a bit of fun to use. Undoubtedly the RX100 takes a cleaner, better picture because its sensor is larger and better but the Fuji, in its on right, is a quality photographic tool and at this point in its career, is a monetary bargain. The above is two sets of  3 +/- 1 stop auto exposure bracketed photographs, hdr merged in PS5 and then the two hdr merged shots were side by side merged, then cropped.

Panasonic LX5 / Wide Angle Merge / Monochrome / HDR

Today's winter sky compared with last summer's / Samsung NX-10 / Fisheye

Got up this morning knowing it was going to be cold, with a front moving in. Ground is brown, a lot of trees are brown and well, the sky is gray (sounds like California dreaming, doesn't it?). The sky is endlessly changing. If I had to choose one thing to shoot that would always be both unique and fascinating, it would be the sky. So here are two contrasting shots from the same camera and lens but divided by six months. Both are fish eye, hdr. Winter, I wrung all the grunge out of it I could. The clouds were almost overwhelming anyway. Summer is minimally processed. You can't improve natural magic. The first is today, in Northwest Arkansas and the second is Nassau, in the Bahamas, just outside the cruise harbor in July. If you look hard, you can see other cruise ships docked in the harbor and off to the left you can make out the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island (along with a touch of lens flare - the Samyang lens is really well coated and has a built-in lens shade but it is also sticks out like a glass baseball). Both shots convey the proper feeling of winter and summer (IMO), although it's probably endless summer in Nassau (sigh).