Photo Walk at the James S Long Reginal Park

Photo Walk at the James S Long Reginal Park
- May 16, 2023 -

This was orginally posted to Facebook May 16 2016

Granted these images are not exactly high quality, and certainly a world away from my usual sort of subjects. This photo walk was largely about my own mental and physical health. A side benefit is that it also provided me with some much needed photographic, and post photo shoot production practice.

About this the images...
After the establishing shots which were created with a Motorola smart phone, and Snapseed. The camera used for this little expedition was a Panasonic DMC FH25 16 megapixel Point & Shoot, set to black & white at ISO 400. Generally, I used the camera’s auto settings (there is not much to set on this camera), but I did vary the exposure by minus 1 to 3 stops to give a little better in camera contrast. Sadly, due to my slowly failing middle aged vision I couldn’t see the LCD on the back, and I desperately needed a view finder to assist with my composition. For postproduction I used Adobe Lightroom Classic. Beyond culling down from the original 156 images, the only image edits made were to the exposure, contrast, horizons. and cropping.

I was hoping to use a Pentax 928 IQ Zoom film camera loaded with a 36 exposure roll of Iford hP5. Alas silly drip that I am sometimes, I left the roll sitting on my desk.