Rustic Americana In Nature 🇺🇸🌳🌿🌸

@SW-User Thank you for your words. I saw this special truck and just had to stop and get a few pictures. I love b&w photos. They can make things even a bit more nostalgic. I am gonna get back into photography and enjoy it again. ☺️💫

@SW-User I can totally see why you had to stop. I've been totally guilty of seeing things I know I would love in a subject, and then going right past whether if I'm driving, or on my feet. This is gonna stop, I swear. Though I did well last weekend, something I had been looking at for six years almost weekly, I used an entire roll of film in the span of five minutes wondering, why didn't I open the shutter before? This time the light was just simply so inspiring, I had to. 💫📷

Yes b&w adds such a timeless quality

@SW-User I'm really glad you finally stopped and the light for your subject was just right. Clicking away is the way to go.

Have you ever used filters for your subjects? ☺️

@SW-User You mean with film photography? Yes, I have. I have a whole set of filters for lenses. With film, I shoot mostly in b&w and a red filter really brings out the contrast. You can find filters that simulate these with digital photographs. It would be good with your two b&w pieces here.

I'm glad I did stop and just take in the light. 💫

@SW-User I can imagine these filters would.....I may give that a try for b&w.....☺️

@SW-User If you are using a DSLR you need to turn off auto white balance. If you don't the camera will try and compensate for what colours the camera feels it should be seeing.

I'd need to open my photography editor, but if you wanted an effect that brought the images Kodiac contributed, I'd suggest a blue filter.

@SW-User Thank you for the info....I may invest in another DSLR one day. I'm just gonna take it day by day. Just trying to do healing things.....for me for a change. 🙏💙

@SW-User I was giving you windows, I have no idea what you are using. My DSLR is from 2006, with no plans to change it, as I only shoot seriously now with my film camera. I got some good shots today, I think of a covered bridge and I only used my phone along with my film camera. The film camera, hopefully, captured the more artistic shots I found, and the versatility of the phone gave me the other ones. 🙏

Just be creative .... use whatever you have and have fun with it. 😊💙📷

@SW-User I'm actually using a phone.....an iphone....I want to update it very soon to a Samsung Android....one of the most recent releases. They have some nice cameras on those. Plus I'm tired of the iphone crap.....they release a so called new phone, but it's not really updated......just a different number so to speak..

@SW-User There is an infinite amount of versatility in phones with cameras for how intuitive they have become that they have almost beat the camera makes at their own game. But the filter ideas I gave in B&W are available that way too after. I just happen to know what I love, what filter to use before, and prefer going that route for the shots I put more thought upon.

@SW-User I'm just using my Android phone and you can obviously see the depth they capture, especially in my day vs night moon photos. Or at least, I think so.😉 @SW-User I can't wait to see that covered bridge and all your photos you've been taking.✨

It's also so wonderful to know two people I adore most are using photography for healing.💟🪻

I guess I am myself too.😊

@MoonlightLullaby Yes you are using photography for healing also my dear sis.....it gets you outside and you find those beautiful things in nature that brings you smirks and giggles, which you need. We all need something to help heal us. Nature is your passion and you captured it wonderfully. 💜🌼

I'm going to trade in that damn iphone and get that Samsung Android phone. I love the clarity your pics show when you post them. Especially, the ones of your precious moon.....the details.....they just pop!! ☺️

@MoonlightLullaby You are in your own way.... I can picture that joy you have found seeing those baby daisies, or stalking those birds. I want that play in my heart. How can I say as a photographer at heart? It's not the details of the camera that shine - some of them have just been how you composed the image in composition, mmmkay? I honestly play with my view in my viewfinder (old word now), until I feel I have it just right... And some of your compositions, in composition, just have the right aesthetic and perspective, from where this leaf should exist here, that leaf unfolding should be there, and it can be a simple shift of perspective and sight... Let that leaf hold its texture, abundant there, and it would not hold the same quality not there. 🥺

@SW-User Thank you for such an encouraging comment. I'm trying to develop some skills, if you call it that, but more so, I'm just having fun. You know ....💟🤭's

@MoonlightLullaby I'm just saying you have a natural eye for composition. 😉 Keep having fun as that's the true purpose and continue having those 💟🤭's. 😉