8/12/2011: Portland Horse Chestnut
One of the consequences of doing a Pic 4 Today blog is that you are forced to seize every opportunity to pick up your camera and go find something to photograph. I was stranded in a hotel for the morning in a rather seedy section of Portland Oregon (my bad, I made the reservation)…and it took some determination to shut down the internet and get out there. As it happens there was a tiny cemetery across the street from the hotel with some huge old trees. I took a dozen or more exposures and went back to the hotel, transfered the images via Eye-Fi card to my Xoom, and processed a few in PhotoEnhance Pro HD and PicSay Pro.
I liked the texture and the light coming through the extra large leaves of the Horse Chestnut. Selective focus kept the strongest pattern sharp and Active D-Lighting gave me a good exposure for processing. I also liked the big ugly fruit.
Nikon Coolpix P500 at 23mm equivalent field of view. f3.4 @ 1/320 @ ISO 320. Program with Active D-Lighting. Fruit at 410mm equivalent. f4 @ 1/320th @ ISO 160. Close Up mode.
Processed as above in PhotoEnhance Pro HD. Fruit in PicSay Pro.
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The common name “horse-chestnut” (often unhyphenated) is reported as having originated from the erroneous belief that the tree was a kind of chestnut (though in fact only distantly related), together with the observation that eating the fruit cured horses of chest complaints. ;:’*
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