Nahiz: 2012-08

25 August 2012

Chilean Desert 173

Location: back to the Ruta 5
Changes: Contrast, some colour adjustment
Camera: DMC-LX3

This is the fault

Location: On the Fault
Changes: Contrast, some colour adjustments
Camera: DMC-LX3

22 August 2012

Along the Atacama Fault Line

Location: eponymous
Changes: Contrast
Camera: DMC-LX3

Chilean Desert 172

Location: Access Road to Paranal
Changes: Contrast, small colour adjustments
Camera: DMC-LX3

18 August 2012

Cerro Paranal

Location: Paranal
Changes: Contrast, stitching of 9 photos using Hugin
Camera: DMC-LX3

17 August 2012

Cerro Armazones

Location: near Paranal, Chile
Changes: Contrast
Camera: DMC-LX3

16 August 2012

Paranal Alkali

Location: Paranal Observatory, Chile
Changes: Contrast, some minor colour adjustments
Camera: DMC-LX3

14 August 2012

Chilean Desert 171

Location: Cerro Paranal, Chile
Changes: Contrast, stitching of 7 images using Hugin
Camera: DMC-LX3

11 August 2012

Chilean Desert 167 to 170

Location: Ruta 5, from Antofagasta to Paranal, Chile
Changes: Contrast, small colour adjustments
Camera: DMC-LX3

10 August 2012

Chilean Desert 166

Location: near Antofagasta, Chile
Changes: Contrast, little colour adjustment
Camera: DMC-LX3

09 August 2012

La Silla - West side

Location: La Silla, Chile
Changes: contrast, stitching of 13 images using Hugin
Camera: DMC-LX3

08 August 2012

Petroglyphs 39 & 40

Location: idem
Changes: Contrast
Camera: DMC-LX3

Petroglyphs 37 & 38

Location: La Silla
Changes: Contrast
Camera: idem

Policy

I am doing photography for a little while now. For long, I was keeping them for myself, but the wish to improve led me to share them, first by email with friends and family and now to a wider population with this blog.

All the photos here were taken with a Minolta Z20 or Lumix DMC-LX3 (unless otherwise stated) and I imposed myself only a few changes on the photo. Those changes consists mainly in altering - usually slightly - the colour balance, and the overall contrast. I am not altering in any way the composition: what can be seen is what I saw and what the camera captured.

Colours are subjective. For example when shooting through a coloured window, what would be reality? What the eyes saw, or what they would have seen without the window? Similarly the camera has its own perception of reality and its own colour and light response.

The patterns on the photos are real (and kept unchanged), the colours are more subjective.

Nahiz