We paid a visit to a friend’s winery today. As it turned out, our friend popped in to drop off a couple cases of bubbly for the tasting room.
With the exception of a quick hello couple weeks ago at the gas station, we haven’t seen Matt in several months.
He told us that he’s bee really busy in the cellar making wine because the volume of the harvest this year is more than 2007, 2008, and 2009 combined!
Sleep well you awesome wine vines… You’ve earned it! See you at bud break in a couple months!
Who are we kidding? We’ll pop in to check on you soon!
Top 2 with the 5d and 24-70 with manual settings. Bottom 2 70D, 24-70, all auto settings and built-in flash.
It was cloudy, as you see, and close to magic hour and the light changed quickly. I tried to shoot manually but I couldn’t get the 70D to do what I wanted.
I know all the photo bloggers make a big deal about how you want “total, and complete artistic control from manual, man. You’re not a real photog, not a real artist unless you do!”
Yeah, that’s bullshit.
It’s like saying to a carpenter, “Uhhh ya know, dude, unless you’re pulling a nail from your teeth, putting that pointy bit down, swinging a hammer, hitting that nail on the head and repeating, you’re a not a real carpenter. Those nailguns are for phonies!”
I know plenty of working professional photographers who will shoot automatic when working some gigs when they can’t find the light, or the light is changing too fast to keep up.
It’s part of the tool, and I, as the artist, can use whatever feature on that camera I want to get the image I want. It is a choice.
