Making pictures out of SOMETHING!!!

You want better pictures -- stand in front of something interesting!

Yesterday I posted dawn pictures which were manufactured from not much -- what I was standing in front of wasn't very interesting.

Today was better, so I was able to make some pictures out of something!

Sunrise! The sun is rising over New Ireland about 50km away and we can see the outline. GX7, 12-35, Ex-Tele 1.4 for an effective focal length of about 50mm. I brightened the picture about half a stop in PP. This had the effect of reducing red a bit, which was right. The picture recorded was too red. Note that yesterday's picture saviors, the dinghies, didn't turn up this morning. They enhanced yesterday's dull dawn, but might have spoiled this picture.

GX7 12-35 OOC JPEG. Taken at 1/500; I should have taken notice of that (I was in P mode) and gone a little higher. I have remarked before that dawn and dusk here 4 degrees south of the equator can be pretty spectacular but tend to be very short-lived. I took this about a quarter of an hour after the sunrise picture above. The moment the sun is over the horizon, it is pretty much full day and business as usual until just before the sun sets. And here were the first "banana boats" of the day to give this pic a bit of oomh! Thanks skippers!  The people swimming are literally bathing -- they are "having their bath" in the sea.

After photographing the dawn and doing it pretty much right, I walked up to the market to photograph the early activities there. I'll have some pix a little later. In the meantime, having arisen from my bed of pain at 4.30am, I am going to have a nap, having been vertical and mostly on my feet and on the move for 6 hours.

In the tropical sun.

Good night (at 10.390am!).