What will you do photography wise during the self isolation

[mikew]

I will still go to my local park and the boating lake at Cleethorpes,if it continues into the decent weather my trips will be fairly early in the day, we have a large cemetery not far away, good for insects in the summer.

[Garry]

Hopefully, I wont be going into self isolation. Unless I think I have Covid-19, or one of my immediately family at home get it.

Self Isolation depends on what it means to the individual I guess. If you are on your own. Then you are isolated. So no reason why you shouldn't be out with your camera.

Have fun and keep calm. Most importantly, keep posting your photos here.

[patmoore]

I'm going to do a video for my goldenyearsgeek.com channel . I've discovered that Google Photos has amazing search capabilities. My PC has close to 100,000 photos. I needed to find a photo of a tombstone taken many years ago. I typed in the word GRAVE and instantly my screen was filled with shots I had taken in cemetaries. It didn't take long to find the shot I was looking for. It works equally well on the iPhone app.

[Caz]

Still working here, although I think we may be working from home soon. Unfortunately both my day job (a conveyancing assistant in a firm of solicitors) and my hobby (gig photography) are both being hit by the virus outbreak. 99% of gigs are (very rightly) being cancelled and I don't think many people are looking to buy or sell their house. We cancelled coverage of all gigs a couple of weeks ago as my other half can get a severe chest infection after a sniffle so it really wasn't worth the risk.

So I shall be working on the backlog in both jobs - in the day job, checking a backlog of files for money due back to the client and now working through a backlog of images that I haven't had time to edit.

Once that's done and if we go into lockdown, I'm going to start clearing the house of junk prior to hopefully downsizing and preparing for retirement. The garden needs a lot of work, as well.

Both my children are in lockdown countries and are trying to get me to give up work and retire. I just wish I could afford to do so!

[patmoore]

Sort of photography related. I just finished a pencil drawing of a photographer. This is the guy who shoots the NASTAR Ski and Snowboard racing championships in the US each year. I wanted to show my appreciation by doing this drawing of him. The event was canceled. I guess I'll have to mail it to him or hold on to it for another year. For the record, he uses Canon products.

[Ian]

Super talent there, Pat!

[Barr1e]

I wanted to get some practice in with my drone but the weather has stalled all operations with the exception of today.
I managed to get her in the air to photograph a couple of extras recently added - as you can see it didn't take long for the rain to make an appearance.


She doesn't like rain so flying stopped pretty quickly.
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[Ian]

Let's hope none of use requires full self-isolation! Unfortunately, here in the UK there is a lockdown of sorts and from the way I read it from today it's no longer permissible to venture out of the house to take pictures, even if you stay away from others; only travel for essential workers, to travel for essential shopping and a few other essential reasons as well as for exercise.

I can see myself going through my archive, doing some macro and snapping any birds in the garden that stop by the feeders (not that i get much in the way of exotic birds normally, sadly).

Ian

[Garry]

I can see myself going through my archive, doing some macro and snapping any birds in the garden that stop by the feeders (not that i get much in the way of exotic birds normally, sadly).

Ian

Think that may be for all of us.

[Barr1e]

Today from the garden helped me place an entry in the current challenge.
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[mikew]

I think my plans are not going to work, going to the park on the scooter is hardly exercise

[Garry]

I'm getting plenty of exercise, up and down steps, while decorating at home. Plus pushing a lawn mower. Plus cleaning our cars.
I am hoping to get my camera into the garden for some photos soon.

[Barr1e]

I now realise the many hundreds of photographs that need culling from the computers - much work to be done.

[patmoore]

We have thousands of color slides from the seventies and eighties. I tried an iPhone app called Slidebox which automatically cropped, rotated, and corrected the color of each slide but the finish quality wasn't very good. I have a small slide scanner but it requires loading three at a time manually. My solution is to set up the Kodak Carousel in the basement and display slides on a projector screen, then take photos with my Canon DSLR. The quality still isn't as good as proper scanning but I can do an entire 140 slide tray in a few minutes.

These were done with Slidebox. In all three cases, I used Photoshop Elements to clean them up.

[patmoore]

And these were shots taken of the projection screen. Also, some post processing. Still nowhere near the quality of the original but a fast free way of converting thousands of slides.



The original wasn't much better but I've always loved this shot of my youngest daughter. She's now 40 and lives in the Cotswolds.

[Garry]

You have a very inventive approach Pat.

Looks like you are keeping yourselves occupied.

Enjoyed seeing these,