The Outwell Newfoundland Camp Bed is part of the Titanium range of caravan-style furniture designed in Denmark by Outwell. This top-quality folding bed is lightweight yet extremely robust and stable and comfortable to lie on.
The Outwell Newfoundland is an extremely comfortable 5-position reclining bed that comes complete with a fully detachable padded pillow. It is made with high quality Textiline weatherproof woven fabric with a lightweight aluminium alloy frame. Because of these materials these beds are good for either indoor or outdoor use.
As the sun sets on Race Point on the tip of Cape Cod the low angle of the sun creates some beautiful soft light on the FG beach. I used a 2 stop soft rev grad to hold back the sun.
It’s winter, and baby, it’s cold outside. Appropriate for the season, I'll provide some cold weather tips to make your frosty weather outings more comfortable and productive.
Break Out The Macro Lens: Break out that macro lens that mostly gets used in the summer. Go local and look for ice crystals near a pond, stream, on your window or make your own. Fill a basin and let water freeze in the backyard. Create small icicles with a very slow drip from a garden hose. If the forecast is for an overnight freeze, spray bottle your outside windows before you go to bed. Set the alarm so when the sun comes up, you’ll have nice warm light on the frost patterns. Use a tripod to ensure sharpness. If there’s a fresh snow, move in close on patches that clutch a bare branch. Winter opens numerous macro doors, so walk through and make some pictures.
Dress For The Occasion: A comfortable photographer is a happy photographer. A happy photographer stays in the field longer. To stay comfortable, it’s essential you remain warm. My fingers are first to go as I handle a cold camera and tripod. I start with a heated glove liner that’s thin enough to operate the controls of my camera. On top of the liner, I wear a fold back mitten. The part that covers my four fingers folds back to reveal them. When it gets very cold, I fold the mitten back over my fingers to thaw them out. On very chilly days, I insert a chemical hand warmer that acts as another barrier against the cold. I use the same set up when I go to Yellowstone in the winter. On my feet, I wear silk liners inside fleece socks along with a winter hiking boot. It if gets very cold, I include chemical toe warmers. On my head, I wear a thick fleece hat and add a hooded sweatshirt that I use to regulate my comfort level. I dress in performance layers that start with breathable long johns and work up to a jacket that has zippered armpits to control how much air I let in or out.
Prep Your Gear: My tripod gets cold, which transfers low temperatures to my hands. Instead of grabbing the cold legs of the tripod, I have foam insulation around the top section of each leg. That area doesn’t get as chilled. This keeps my hands happier. In regard to my camera, I always carry extra batteries that I keep in my pocket so they retain some of my body heat. This keeps them active longer. Cold sucks the life out of batteries, so the warmer I keep them, the longer I can shoot.
Keep Snow White: Keep the snow in your images white by nailing the exposure. If the exposure is too dark, snow looks gray and dingy. If it’s too light, highlight detail is lost. Bias the exposure so the histogram is pushed to the right side, but make sure there are no spikes on the edge. If there are, the detail in the brightest areas will be lost. Use minus exposure compensation to move the histogram to the left if there’s a spike. Use plus compensation to move the histogram to the right, but stop before it spikes. In regard to color balance, always shoot RAW images. The color balance can be tweaked when the image is processed and there’s no degradation. If you shoot jpg, it’s essential you get the proper color temperature at the time of capture. On a sunny day, shady snow will be blue due to the sky reflecting its color onto the snow’s surface. To offset this, set the color temperature manually or to Cloudy. If it’s still blue, set the white balance to Shade. If the entire image comes out looking too warm, selectively correct the color when you post process.
Show Them Off: Now that you’ve accumulated lots of great images captured in the cold, show them off. Post an album to Facebook or tweet out the pictures as you make them. When the cold weather wanes, create a Winter Album of your best pictures and share it online with your friends or make a photo book of your efforts. With all the image sharing sites nowadays, it’s easy to create a finished product.
Obviously you’re very good at the craft of photography and I am enjoying your posts through Outdoor Photograher. I may be nitpicking but I am a stickler for believability in the realm of nature or landscape photography. Your Winter scene with a sliver moon is an issue for me. The sun is low on the horizon directly behind you so the moon should be almost full. The sun for the sliver moon has to be below the horizon on the same side of the earth especially since the moon here is barely above the horizon. You’re probably good with what you’ve done and that’s OK. Just letting you know what I think.
I welcome your above comment – I did add the crescent moon as the sky needed balance on the right side. I would never enter a manipulated image into a true nature photo competition but for illustration purposes, it makes a better composition.
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A recent study shows that massage isn't a frivolous indulgence, but a potential medical necessity, the New York Times reports.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles recruited a group of 53 healthy adults to get massages. Some got a Swedish massage and the rest got a light massage. All of the adults had their blood tested before and just after their massage. The results?
The Swedish massage group experienced significantly lower levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, and an increase in their immune systems' disease-fighting white blood cells. The light massage group also experienced increases in oxytocin, the contentment hormone, and decreases in the hormone that triggers the release of cortisol.
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