Fall in Somerset County, Late but Gorgeous

Color along Washington Valley Road. (Bergeron Image)

Last week has been one for refreshing my skills with photography.  I have two cameras, a Nikon D7000 series DSLR, and a Nikon Coolpix P600.  Both have quality sensors, the heart of any good digital camera.

 

The Coolpix is a light, smaller “bridge camera,” the designation used to describe the difference in size and heft between the larger, heavier DSLRs and the much smaller slide-in-your-pocket cameras that are now becoming endowed with much more power and quality.

Maybe, someday, a genius entrepreneur will combine all the photo-taking qualities of those three camera types into a single smartphone.  Several decades ago, who would have dreamed that pixels generated by a chip would consign celluloid film to the museums of photography?

No matter.  Just as there is always something new to learn, there is also some necessary thing that one forgets!  Earlier in the week, I learned this the hard way when I attended a photography class and outdoor shooting session at the Leonard J. Buck Gardens.

It was an occasion to become refreshed about details for which all avid photo geeks want to improve upon – matters such as composition, leading lines, depth of field, ISO settings, shutter speed, aperture settings, etc.

Eagerly, I took the DSLR out into the Buck Gardens on a beautifully bright, broken-shadows morning and started clicking away at dozens upon dozens of outdoor scenes, hoping to use one of them in this blog post.

Autumn leaves in the woods, Somerset County. (Bergeron Image)

 

Alas, I forgot one thing (it became a good test of humility):  I had set the image and pixel size too large for the MCJ.com web site to accept.  (Managing space, you know!)

So, having learned that lesson, I changed settings, took a ride along Washington Valley Road a few days later, came across a few of nature’s blessings for human eyes and have at least something to show for my efforts.

Thanks for reading, and good tidings as you move into the coming weeks.

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