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Going around the gardens at The Dunes, P.E.I...
Going around the gardens at The Dunes, P.E.I...
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This photo was taken about a year ago within the gardens at The Dunes Gallery, Prince Edward Island. Which, might I add, is a place I will definitely be returning to. Those red roads can really win your heart it would seem....Time
Around midday. The sun was high but, I guess you could say luckily, it was pretty cloudy. Great for bringing out the colours!Lighting
As I wasn't travelling the island alone, and we wanted to travel across as much of it as possible in one day, I couldn't really test out "prime times" when it comes to natural lighting. I just had to try to make the best out of what the Sun and everything in between gave me. I have a feeling though that for this shot, the light was quite close to optimal. During dusk or dawn (the "magic hours") it may have been really hard to get the natural colours of what I was trying to capture here... objects in the garden.Equipment
This was shot with my Nikon D5200 and a 18-55mm F/3.5-4.5 kit lens, a lens that is now gathering dust on my dresser... no other equipment other than my own body was used.Inspiration
Memory of the moment. I consider myself quite the travel nut, even though I've only been out of my home Province twice that I can remember, and one of those times I can't even really remember... I'm not sure I could even read yet at that time! The idea of seeing more of this planet really hypes me up. So during this little trip, I tried to take as many photos as I could. I had just gotten my first DSLR (the D5200) and some extra equipment I got last minute for leaving time, I was even more inexperienced than I am now, and I had a lot of particular shots I wanted to take. This wasn't one of those shots, this was an extra. But it's another memory forever captured, and isn't that what cameras are for?Editing
Post-processing was very minimal with this one. A little white balance tweaking, some extra colour saturation, I also added some extra contrast... (which I'll admit I do to pretty much every image, contrast seems to be one of my favourite forms of manipulation. Sometimes I may go a little overboard with it).In my camera bag
As I'm still just a kid (really, I am) and still really just starting to walk down this long and wondrous road, my bag is a pretty small one. So small I actually can't really fit my camera (Nikon D5200), my two lenses (Sigma 105mm F/2.8 Macro and a Sigma 10-20mm F/3.5), my Vanguard VEO 235AB tripod and my little bag of extras (batteries, lens cloth, etc.) so I usually carry around what I think is most likely I'll end up using. Which is a flawed system... but for now, it is what it is.Feedback
Well, this is a pretty simple snap so technical details and specifics are a little hard to think of as worth mentioning, but I suppose my advice for you for capturing something similar is to, get low! Even being the overly-excited tourist snapping pictures at everything, I still tried to avoid those regular "eye-level" shots as much as possible. For this one, I could even say "get low and get wide". The wide angle allows you to add so much more of the scene even if you really only have one main subject like this. Focus on getting a little creative with your angles, it really can be satisfying!
