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Let me stand next to your fire
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This is going to be a bit different kind of post for me this week. Tuesday typically means that I post you three songs that follow a similar theme. I'm still going to do that, but while the songs themselves are usually the focus of the post, today the star of the post is going to be the photos I took on one of our recent camping trips. It's still a #threetunetuesday post sponsored by @ablaze, just with a different twist!
A couple weekends ago @mrsbozz and I took a trip that I have already posted at length about. Where we went isn't really that important for this post. The fact that we made this trip alone without our regular camping buddies is what matters most. It's not that my wife and I don't talk, but I appreciate the simple comfort of just being with her without feeling the need to fill the void with chatter. She might disagree with me, but the point is, we spent a lot of time sitting around the fire in relative silence.
It was nice. Calm, intimate, and nice.
I decided to play around with my Google Pixel 8 Pro and see what I could do with the various manual modes the built in camera provides. The photo above is a long exposure photo I took. This is actually a special mode the camera has versus just adjusting the shutter speed. It's not my favorite photo of the ones I took, but it is still pretty cool.
This is another photo I took using "portrait" mode on the phone. While it turned out pretty cool, I am still not sure it is my favorite from the night. I don't like how the background and foreground seems to get grainy and kind of opaque.
This is one I took in "action" mode. I don't really know exactly what that means, but if I had to guess it probably has something to do with a short shutter speed to capture fast moving objects. Things like sporting events and that sort of thing. Probably not the best option for this situations, but I still think it turned out kind of cool.
Eventually, I started playing with some of the other settings and I ended up getting some of the best photos of the bunch in my opinion. I can't tell you what setting I was playing with specifically, but I like how the focus of the first photo is just the fire and everything else around it just seems to kind of melt away. Obviously, in the second photo I was trying some kind of long shutter speed to make the flames blend together like that.
Then of course I took things a bit too far and ended up with the photo you see above...
Eventually, I started playing with white balance I think it was and I ended up with the photos you see above. Despite the last one being pretty simple and there not being a ton of detail, it still remains one of my favorite photos. It's pretty cool how the flames are just kind of there in the darkness appearing out of nowhere.
These were the last two photos I took and I think they are kind of my favorite. There is just something really elegant about them that I love. I'm not sure if it is how the color is off just a little bit. The blue seems to be a little heavier on the last one. I should have paid more attention to the modes I was using so I could give a more accurate description here. I apologize for that.
Despite that failure on my behalf, I hope you enjoyed the photos and the tunes.
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