Photography
I got to test out more camera more thoroughly at Brandon and Kari's wedding this past weekend in College Station. I hadn't planned to bring my camera at first, but Brian actually urged me to.
Here are some of my favorite photos.
It was so much fun!
First of all, I'm thankful for all the support from my friends! Photography has been a fairly recent interest for me. I love learning new methods & tricks and seeing things with a new perspective. It's taken some time, but I feel that I'm slowly improving.
So today, I tested my camera at Method: Caffeination & Fare, a super cool and fairly new coffee shop in Dallas (try the peanut butter toast). I also tried the camera + phone wifi connection for the first time, and I love it. SO quick and easy. I experimented with iPhone vs E-M1 shots. This was mainly for Instagram purposes because that's where I post all the time.
As some people may know, I LOVE VSCO Cam. I even got the VSCO Film for Adobe Lightroom! So after editing with both, here are the results:
Taken with E-M1, uploaded to computer, and edited with Adobe Lightroom.
Taken with iPhone 5S and edited with VSCO Cam.
Ignore the fact that I didn't up the saturation in the second photo. But obviously, details are sharper with the E-M1, and I get more in the image with my wide angle lens. Other than that, they are practically the same if posted to Instagram. In conclusion: who gives!
The phone definitely feels more like snapping on the go whereas the E-M1 is like, "Um, excuse me stranger, I promise I'm not a creeper, I just want to take a photo of you and upload it for the world to see."
Anyway, I will not turn the E-M1 into an expensive Instagramming machine. I'm still waiting for opportunities to take some bokeh-licious photos.
And here is the newest meant-for-web photo.
My new Olympus OM-D E-M1 came in today!
I'm excited to start shooting with it. It's such a huge difference compared to my Sony NEX-3. Sometimes I'm surprised at the things that camera was able to shoot. It's really, really solid for beginners.
Can't wait to see what the E-M1 has to offer.
