We ended our trip by driving up the scenic Hwy 101, which took us through the Redwoods and provided ample opportunity for beach stops along the way. Of course, there were pictures (you can view the full set
here). We hiked for about an hour and a half in the Redwoods - I highly recommend this if you have a boy who needs to stretch his legs - and pulled over a couple of times so Hen could play on the beach before we got serious about getting home. After 8p.m., we stopped at Bandon and had dinner at
The Loft, a restaurant at the pier. We had a leisurely, slightly overpriced meal. The little old couple seated at the table next to ours, well, um, one of 'em kept farting through the meal. I am very happy to report Hen did not pick up on this and broadcast it to the entire restaurant.
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| Edited - applied devignette, increased contrast, cropped, increased vibrancy |
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| Edited - changed color, applied vignette |
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| Edited - applied Toy preset |
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| Edited - applied auto-correct |
I included the following not because they are at all good but to illustrate how much can be recovered when a photo is dark. I flipped my lens around to take a macro shot of a flower while we were on our hike through the Redwoods. If you look really, really, really close you can just make out a touch of the purple petals near the bottom of the photo.
This is what came out when I applied Aperture's auto-correct. I don't like it but I was amazed by how much it captured.
2 comments:
What is the toy preset? You've mentioned it a few times now.
Aperture has a list of presets - Quick Fixes, Color, White Balance, and Black and White. There are subsets within some of those presets. Toy camera is an option in the Color preset, along with the Vintage preset, which I used in that one pic of Hen and Darr on the bench at Stanford. Specifically, the Toy camera preset boosts definition, saturation, and vibrancy.
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