FOTD – May 15- Mother’s Day Bouquet

Usually it’s Garry who brings me my Mother’s Day bouquet, but today it was Owen’s turn. It’s actually two smaller bouquets. It’s hard to get exactly what you want the day before Mother’s Day. He was in the store today and he said he was glad he went yesterday, because there was nothing left at all.

Not to be outdone by giving me two bouquets, he also picked up a brand new wheelchair for me at the flea market. It’s very light, small, and will more or less fit in the trunk of our car. I don’t need it all the time — not by any means — but sometimes, it gets me there a lot faster with someone pushing than with me limping slowly down those endless hallways. I’m a very slow walker. The worst are the endless hospital corridors.

These pictures were all taken using my miniature Pentax camera with its telephoto lens — in manual mode. The nature of this camera is that although it has autofocus, its design means that anything you can see on the screen seems to already BE in focus. Putting it in Auto? Everything comes out too bright, especially reds, yellows, and white. I tried other settings, but indoors in low light — and it’s always low light in this house — manual is best. This is NOT true outside where the camera has a tendency to run a bit hot. I need a filter for it to cut down the burning out of bright-light colors.

I wanted to show you what the pictures looked like right out of the camera and what it looked like after increasing its exposure and denoising it.

So this year, my son got me two bouquets, a wheelchair, and installed a new A/C unit in the dining room — a 12,000 BTU unit that should cool the dining room, kitchen and living room. It’s very compact and took maybe half and hour to install, including setting it up and making sure I could also plug in my ring light (for the podcast) and my other light (for photographs on the tabletop).

A good Mother’s Day, though getting a wheelchair was a bit of a surprise. At least it wasn’t a new broom.

I am not sure why this magic works on this camera and this lens. It’s something about the size and compactness of the camera, but I can do some magical things with it that I can’t seem to do with any of my other cameras. These require a denoise filter. Lightening them greatly increases the noise. Lucky for me, the Topaz AI Denoise filter is super effective.

This is not the sharpest camera I own, but it is different. Unique.

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