Why are cows eyelashes so long?
Here’s a good example of why you should take your photos in raw format. It was late into sunset one recent evening when I looked out my window. Down below were a doe and fawn white-tail deer. Quickly, I grabbed my camera and took just one photo before they disappeared into the woods. But I didn’t have time to adjust anything so when I looked at the image, it looked like this:
If you look closely, you can barely see the outline of a deer! This was at 1/160 sec., F11 at ISO400; hardly enough to get the job done.
Fortunately, that can be fixed, although one this underexposed is really pushing the process. Here’s how it turned out after adjusting the exposure in Lightroom, plus a couple of other development settings. I notice that that much exposure change sort of limits the effectiveness of some of the other settings.
Now that it is legible, I can see that I’ve seen these two before!
I’ll bet he doesn’t even have a license!
Leon Lipscomb Grocery was one of the original grocery stores along Gasoline Alley in east Morgan County and maybe the last one still standing. Closed long ago, it would be wonderful if someone reopened it!
Gasoline Alley thrived back in the mid-to-late 20th century. This was due to lower taxes just across the Tennessee River from south Huntsville and so gas was cheaper. It declined when the taxes in Morgan County became nearer to Madison County taxes, so not much reason to cross the river anymore.
Early morning along Alum Hollow Trail on Green Mountain
I was recently in Crystal City, a section of Arlington, Virginia. While walking to the metro station, I noticed something new to me.
It’s a sidewalk message. Not exactly an advertisement, but more like a public service announcement.
To me, that seems like a good way to communicate a specific message exactly where it can reach the intended audience. Of course, such a practice could easily be overdone. You would have to limit it to a specific type of purpose (PSAs in this case, for instance), and you would have to regulate the number of them and how they are produced.
With that in mind, I could see them being an effective tool, especially around downtown.
So what message would YOU put here?
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