Not having left the resort except for the walk along the beach, I decided that on our drive back to the airport I would try to catch a few snaps of the city through the car window.
The distance from the Palladium to the airport is about 10 miles and most of the route taken is within the city center.
By the way the blurriness you see has nothing to do with your eyesight going bad, I guarantee it. 😉
And so this concludes the Punta Cana adventure.....onward to the next!
Ca c'est pour vous!
Full disclousre:
Mission accomplie!🤪
Sometimes photography is not about the quality of the photo but rather about freezing a memory.
This post is about the memory. The photos I took are of substandard quality and I can give you a ton of excuses, but I wont, because that is not what this post is about.
This post is about the experience I had visiting The Thorne Rooms and one that I hope will encourage you to say:
" I have to go see this display on my own."
I decided to go visit the Art Institute in Chicago, on my most recent trip . While I had been to the Art Institute in the past (a long past) a recent photo I saw of a particular location at the Institute, intrigued me.
Therefore, it urged me to go and capture one of my own.
By the time I got into to the building and jumped through several hoops to get in (not going to bore you with the details), I had somewhat lost my enthusiasm about the whole idea of capturing this specific photo.
Hence, I moved about the building and different displays at a rather quick pace.
Until I hit The Thorne Rooms.
What an amazing display!
One that mesmerizes the viewer.
Room after room of "shadowboxes" built into the walls.
And inside those "shadowboxes"?
Intricate, miniature recreation of the interior of the 1930's homes.
You are probably wondering who created this display.
A little background:
"Narcissa Niblack Thorne, the creator of the Thorne Rooms, herself had a vivid imagination. In the 1930s, she assembled a group of skilled artisans in Chicago to create a series of intricate rooms on the minute scale of 1:12. With these interiors, she wanted to present a visual history of interior design that was both accurate and inspiring. The result is two parts fantasy, one part history—each room a shoe box–sized stage set awaiting viewers’ characters and plots."
I took these photos with three different cameras;Nikon Z7, Lumix Panasonic, & Samsung cellphone.
And if you can figure out which is which, more power to you.
If you are not able to go to the Art Institute but are still interested to see quality photos here's a link.
Want to learn more?
Here's a video discussion between Murray Moss and Ellenor Alcorn,on the
(source)
I am definitely not a cellphone photographer. As a matter of fact I believe my cellphone is very temperamental. Sometimes it takes really nice photos and other times.....thankfully the trash can is right there.
For this week's 52 frame challenge the requirement was to shoot with a phone. Shoot I did, to make it tad more interesting for myself I decided to shoot RAW and play with the settings, rather than having the phone use its automatic settings.
The first photo I captured was that of a sliced pear. The settings were: 1/20 sec. f/1.5 4.3mm, ISO 400.
As you can see there is a lot of enhancement done within the cellphone camera when the photo is converted into jpeg.
On the rest of the photos, I decided to continue shooting in raw and then doing my own edits, using Photoshop.
1/30 sec. f/1.5 4.3mm, ISO 125
1/60 sec. f/1.5 4.3mm, ISO 250
1/25 sec. f/1.5 4.3mm, ISO 480
I did take a few photos using my regular camera just to see the difference between the cellphone and the DSLR.
10 sec. f/11 50mm, ISO 160, Z7.
With the two above, I for obvious reasons could not use the same settings as the cellphone. Therefor I chose to do some light painting, hence the slower shutter speed.
And so another week of challenges is behind me.
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