Charlie's Fake Blog

From U2's album "The Joshua Tree" song "Where the Streets Have No Name"             I want to run, I want to hide,         I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside. March 25, 2020: We are on self-imposed lock-down due to the pandemic.  I worry, but so far I have held it together.  Linda is anxious and justifiably so, having had pneumonia four times, a viral respiratory infection is not something to take lightly.  Not being able to see Kade and Reid is a problem for both of us.  We missed Tuesday night supper and not having a small one around to look after one or two days a week makes for some long, lonely days.   So it's latex gloves at the gas station and grocery store because I had bought a a pile of them for painting the walls.  Soon, maybe, masks as well if production can get caught up with demand.  So, as Red Green would say, "We're all in this together. I...

Being dissatisfied with the photo of Dawson Bridge I went there today to see if I could revisit that shot.  The fog wasn't thick enough to obscure the opposite end of the bridge so that idea washed out.  As I was packing up to leave I looked up the river and had to take this picture. What the raw file looked like. The clouds and the reflection off the river create some strong diagonal lines that give some perspective to the picture.  The thing that stops the  composition is the entire right side of the image is the dark bank of the river and the messy naked trees along the bank.  What I'll do here is go through my editing process in order to record how I tried to make something better from this image.  All adjustments made in Capture One. Xrite color checker shot. As shot. In the white balance section I pick the eye dropper and select one of the neutral grey squares. After picking the grey neutral square. After picking the white balan...