Where to go? What to photograph? I swiped through the usual destinations in my head and stopped on Bongpo Harbour. It's not too far, there are usually some boats by themselves or in pairs to photograph, and there is a good convenience store up the road where I can relax and write in my journal if the photography doesn't work out.
I made about a dozen or so photos that morning and after almost a week of editing only three remain. One of which is too similar to a picture I've made before to post here. The remaining two have a different enough perspective to make them worth publishing on the site.
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| Taken from the harbour breakwater. An unusual feature of Korean villages is that they will often have massive apartment complexes in the middle of them. Mainly marketed to Seoulites as holiday homes, Air BnB properties, or to be quickly flipped for profit. |
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| As I was walking away, I heard a boat returning to the harbour. I quickly made the composition and took the picture. The right side of the frame isn't as nice as I'd like it to be because the building is cut in an awkward place, but I think the tree helps. |
I had the D850 set to Standard Picture Control and manual exposure so I could be sure not to blow out the highlights on the boats or let the shadows go completely black. Because I was using manual settings, I was able to focus on composing quickly in the second photo without having to worry about exposure problems. The photo quality was set to RAW + JPG.
When I got home I did my first edit and then started making adjustments to the raw files to get the best colours, contrast, clarity, and so on and so on. I tried this and I tried that, but I couldn't get the result I wanted. Then I looked at the jpg files and realised that the camera had done a great job with no adjustments necessary. Some of you will gasp in horror, but I then deleted the raw files and kept the jpg files just as they came out of the camera. It makes sense. I paid a lot of money for Nikon's top DSLR camera - it should make the pictures look good straight out of the camera.
Good to know Nikon still know their stuff these days!
ReplyDeleteThose high rise blocks do look out of place. Is there other infrastructure to support all these out of towners? (Cafes, restaurants etc)
There's a coffee shop every five metres in Korea. Lots of restaurants as well. What there isn't is a lot of parking space for tourists, so cars are on the sidewalks and so on. I avoid anywhere the tourists like during the peak season. ]
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