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Archive for February 1st, 2009

Semi-light

February 01st, 2009 | Category: editing,lightroom,winter

I can handle sunlight and I can handle overcast, but when it’s blue skies above and sunlight heavily filtered through a persistent cloud bank in the horizon, I came completely undone. Post-processed frosty pineI just couldn’t make any sense out of it, it was light but it also wasn’t? I was totally uninspired to take any pictures despite the delightfully frosty trees. But out of principle, I took a few frames and when I came home, I found that I wasn’t the only one with problems. Lightroom was none the wiser about the light and no matter how I tried to adjust the WB I got nowhere fast. Everything looked unnatural so in the end the only way to go with the picture was to go over the top.

Would you believe that the colour temperature is 5000K? Almost a daylight WB and so blue, without any adjustment to any colour channel. Add a generous over-exposure and vignetting and the result is… uhh, the jury is still out. But at least I tried.

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Weather – January 2009

February 01st, 2009 | Category: weather

A nice wintery January, there was a warm spell in the middle but nothing that really ruined the overall look of things because we also got plenty enough of snow.

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SunriseTemperature (High): 3°C
Temperature (Low): -16°C
Temperature (Average): -7°C

Barometer (High): 1031 mbar
Barometer (Low): 992 mbar
Barometer (Avg): 1010 mbar

Total of sunny days: 5

Snow cover (High): 61 cm
Snow cover (Low): 27 cm
Snow cover (Avg): 42 cm
New snow: 53 cm
Days with snowfall: 14

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