Halls Harbour, Nova Scotia #1

Low tide and a dreary day at Hall's Harbour, Nova Scotia, with the boats on the ground.

Shot on a Google Pixel 6 Pro and post-processed in OnOne Photo Raw 2023 (exposure, sun flare) and Aurora HDR (Cool Landscape filter).

I also processed it like the one below. Which one do you like better?

Same picture as above, but made to look old-fashioned.

Leaves Under Ice

These leaves had been floating on the water when it froze in a bucket in my yard, which made for a picturesque photo!

The photo was shot with a Pixel 6 Pro, the colours were deepened using Aurora HDR, and the Beach Bypass effect in Nik Colour Efex Pro was used to further enhance the image.

Hamilton Harbour Panorama – Colour or B&W?

Hamilton Harbour Panorama in Colour
Hamilton Harbour Panorama in Colour
Hamilton Harbour Panorama in B&W
Hamilton Harbour Panorama in B&W (mostly)

The photos for each panorama were taken by a DJI Mini 2 drone shooting in raw (DNG) format. ISO was fixed at 100 and the aperture for each photo was 2.8. Shutter speeds varied from 1/2000 to 1/3200 S. The photos were then post-processed in Luminar 4.

I’m partial to the monochromatic version myself. What about you?

Drone Landscape Pano – Wellington County

I’ve been following drone technology closely since consumer-grade drones hit the market, but I waited for the sweet spot of good camera quality and relatively low price.

When I saw that the DJI Mini 2 was below $700 (CAD) and that it could shoot Raw and HDR I took the plunge, and I’m so glad I did. I really feel this will transform how I shoot many of my photos.

Here’s an example photo, shot just off Hwy 6 in Wellington county, Ontario. It’s a crop of a 7-photo panorama, cleaned up a little in Lightroom, and then further processed in Aurora HDR to give it some punch.


Drone Pano, shot in Wellington County, Ontario
(Click on the image to view full-sized)

Playing with the New Drone

It’s so cool having a camera that you can position anywhere. It opens up a whole new world in photography for me.

The Allanburg Bridge
Trainyard from Above
Hwy 20 leading to the Allanburg Bridge

Man with Sticks on his Back

The original of this photo had a lot more detail, but I liked the way it looked when I applied a “toy camera” effect to it and converted it to this shade of black and white.

Shot on a Nikon J2 back in 2014 with a 10-33 mm lens, f5.3 @ 1/400 @ ISO 100.