A year and a half ago, I was laid off from a seven-year hitch with an environmental corporation that went nearly belly up with a huge layoff and splintered business groups. I was among the casualties, of course, and found myself relying a marketing design consultancy I have had in place since 1990. Fortunately, several good turns of fortune, and a lot of digging for sufficient clientele, lead me to a stack testing company that needed a website and a field technician. As part of a consortium with another company, I've received a couple year's worth of work that has become a bread and butter account while entering an entirely new field of work.
One of the advantages of working at heavy industrial plant sites has been the opportunity to shoot some quasi-clandestine industrial images while on-site as a contractor. A few images always make the otherwise hot, humid, strenuous and long-houred days photographically rewarding.
Allow me to introduce Mr. Lumix. As Panasonic's Model DMC-LZ5 point-and-shoot digicam, this 6 megapixel, 6X optical /24X digital 6-36mm zoom comes with image stabilization and video capability. Stuffed into a miniscule belt pouch, I can carry the Lumix all day and slip him out for rapid shots of nearly anything.
Standing on a stack between 150 and 300 feet in the air has its advantages, you know. Early morning light, high vantage points and a plethora of bold shapes and compositions is all a photographer needs to work with, right? This otherwise blah rooftop took on a visual twist when processing using a custom Preset in Adobe's new Lightroom application.
While the wide end is impressive for a consumer camera, the tele is quite a treat as well - I isolated this steel welder at roughly 150 feet with remarkable detail using the digital portion of this camera's zoom. The trick to getting good image's is the same one for all point-and-shoots in general - use only the lowest ISO settings if you want memorable or even useable results.
One of the advantages of working at heavy industrial plant sites has been the opportunity to shoot some quasi-clandestine industrial images while on-site as a contractor. A few images always make the otherwise hot, humid, strenuous and long-houred days photographically rewarding.Allow me to introduce Mr. Lumix. As Panasonic's Model DMC-LZ5 point-and-shoot digicam, this 6 megapixel, 6X optical /24X digital 6-36mm zoom comes with image stabilization and video capability. Stuffed into a miniscule belt pouch, I can carry the Lumix all day and slip him out for rapid shots of nearly anything.
Standing on a stack between 150 and 300 feet in the air has its advantages, you know. Early morning light, high vantage points and a plethora of bold shapes and compositions is all a photographer needs to work with, right? This otherwise blah rooftop took on a visual twist when processing using a custom Preset in Adobe's new Lightroom application.
While the wide end is impressive for a consumer camera, the tele is quite a treat as well - I isolated this steel welder at roughly 150 feet with remarkable detail using the digital portion of this camera's zoom. The trick to getting good image's is the same one for all point-and-shoots in general - use only the lowest ISO settings if you want memorable or even useable results.Mule
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