Thursday 26 March 2020

After Finishing Posting The Blog,

my exercises, having a shower and breakfast,


 I popped upstairs and picked at random a completely unnoteworthy photograph, it was of the Lock beside Fort William, when we were there in 2019, I had decided to see what would happen if I treated it as a HDR, (High Dynamic Range), photograph, I should have used the RAW image, but I decided on using this JPEG, any way leaving out the boring bit, 

it was transformed into this, a much nicer photograph, all of the detail was in the original but it was hidden,

a side by side comparison, then downstairs for some television and our evening meal, 

 we started with smoked mackerel on crusty sourdough bread, topped with sliced gherkins,

 'Cheers!',

 last week before we knew of the lockdown,

 we bought a bottle of bubbly, we were going to sit in the park and have a picnic,

 but it was not tobe,

 so we decided to drink it tonight, 

Diana had a glass, not that she drunk it, more for me then!

 taking the plates to the kitchen Diana mentioned the fox was outside, so a few peanuts for him,

 we chatted away until it was dark,

 then our main course, a steak with a baked potato, green beans and a home made coleslaw,

 for dessert a Eton mess,

followed by a Jamaican coffee, we chatted away both wondering where this virus thing will end, hopefully soon, but I somehow doubt it, we watched some television later in the evening and then for us we were off to bed.


2 comments:

Jil Wrinkle said...

Nice job on the blue sky in that photo. How did you manage that? I can never develop a decent contrast on skies like that.

PattayaStan said...

Dear Jill, I used a program brought out in 2015 called Aurora HDR which is a photographic software developed by Macphun Software for Mac OS X and Windows. MacPhun changed its name to Skylum in early 2018, it is a High Dynamic Range editing and processing tool, it is ridiculously simple to use, have a look here, https://skylum.com/aurorahdr, best regards, Stan and Diana.