Frosty Near Island Walk

 Another post from last weekend and before it got warm. These pictures are from Saturday when Nora and I took the doggies for a walk before we went skiing.  The hoar frost was spectacular with the rising sun glinting off of it.

I recently replaced my Fujifilm XT3 with the XT5 and have been experimenting with it.  It takes 40MB pictures which is a HUGE bump up in size from the XT3. One setting I played with on Saturday was the 'HDR' feature (High Dynamic Range).  It basically takes a couple of pictures and blends them together to create a picture with perfect exposure.  In high contrast situations like the picture below, you get details in the shadows and the whites are not completely washed out. In the old days I also had this feature on my camera but you pretty much needed to use a tripod or you got blurry results.  On Saturday I was pleasantly surprised that I could use the HDR feature without a tripod - and it seemed to work!

Patrick

 used the 'HDR' setting on this one