The other day I ditched the family and met with a friend, E.S., at the Albany Carousel. I still have a very rough draft idea of a story set with a carousel, so this visit counted as "research," but really it was an excursion to put the new camera through its paces.
10 AM sunlight streamed through the windows, which wasn't ideal -- I would have preferred the foggy, diffuse light of a previous day because it flattens out the light levels and contrast, and the glossy paint on the animals isn't so distracting. One mitigation to the unfavorable light is to hide in the carousel's central column's shadow.
I think the new camera can handle high-contrast lighting better than the old camera, and its zoom lens is fantastic. An obstacle to photographing the animals with the old camera was that I had to be actually next to them to get some of the finer details. Not so with the new camera's zoom lens.
E.S. and I chatted about the holiday, writing, and how cool the carved animals are. We wandered over to the gift-shop and painting area, and heard how the original solid-wood Buffalo was hollowed out so it would weigh about 500 pounds less.
We thought about taking a tour to the carving studio below, but it was getting to pre-lunch toddler melt-down time and the place was becoming shrill. So we went off to write for about an hour.
10 AM sunlight streamed through the windows, which wasn't ideal -- I would have preferred the foggy, diffuse light of a previous day because it flattens out the light levels and contrast, and the glossy paint on the animals isn't so distracting. One mitigation to the unfavorable light is to hide in the carousel's central column's shadow.
E.S. and I chatted about the holiday, writing, and how cool the carved animals are. We wandered over to the gift-shop and painting area, and heard how the original solid-wood Buffalo was hollowed out so it would weigh about 500 pounds less.
We thought about taking a tour to the carving studio below, but it was getting to pre-lunch toddler melt-down time and the place was becoming shrill. So we went off to write for about an hour.
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