Last Long Weekend of Summer 2016

The past summer we have had several great weekends as very good friends of ours have invited us out onto their boat located in the 1000 Islands.  The past few days we had another excellent final trip for the year.   Can't thank them both enough for such a great time on their 2nd home this summer.  A few shots from this past weekend.

We got very lucky and found a mooring ball to hook onto and the decision was made very quickly to stay the night.

The 1000 Islands are a lovely spot with many hidden coves and passages.

I managed to catch a candid shot of our gracious hosts while we treated them to supper for a change.

Sunset through a lantern.

The golden hour approaches.

Next morning as the sun kinda came up.

Sunrise was a bit of a fizzle but still got a bit of a golden sky. 

Couple of neighbouring boats.  Very peaceful spot.

As the fog rolls across the water as it burns off in the morning sunshine.

Finally some sun!

I managed to get 10 minutes of daylight and sun today :-)   For the past 4 days, since getting the new camera, I've been dreaming of sun and COLOUR!

I drove the truck as fast as I could with the slow drivers in Ottawa all around me to get home from work to catch the sunset.  Ran in the house, grabbed the dog and the camera and ran back out.   Couple of seconds to think about camera settings and off we went.

I wanted to try the Velvia film saturation setting, so set it fine jpg + raw format.   Fortunately I had the raw format as I found the Velvia to be a bit over saturated for my taste.   As well, looking through the view finder I felt I needed to dial out some of the exposure so I went to -1 ev, probably should have only gone .3 or .7 but fortunately the raw files saved my ass.

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Jackson posing :-)   Miss the focal point of his face and unfortunately shot in jpg only with velvia.   Lesson learned.

Sunset over the pond behind the house.   RAW image.

Sunset over the antenna farm in the backyard.  Velvia film again but this time it kinda works.

Pano.  Who says you can't do wide angle with a fixed 23mm.  6 vertical shots photomerged in PS.

Unfortunately I'm in a 2 way learning curve.   My old copy of PS CS5 nor my Nikon NX2 supports the Fuji X100S raw mode so I have to use Lightroom 5.   Not a program that I really understand or am comfortable with.   Trying to take advantage of a few minutes of sunlight each today to learn what works for me on this camera and creating a new workflow is making my old head hurt :-)