The Pros and (Mostly) Cons of Upgrading to a 4K Monitor

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I'm in the process of getting back into photography which will mean a new camera, more on that in a later post. But the first step for me was a new computer, one with the horsepower to handle a modern day camera and its RAW files. Along with the computer comes a new 4K monitor. 4K is great for media consumption, right? Your characters on your favorite show or movie really look detailed and realistic. Scenery looks wonderful. Everything looks great, right? Wrong. You know what doesn't look great? That photo I took in 2012 that I thought was sharp but is very much not. I transferred over my past catalogs of photos over to Lightroom Classic and eagerly began opening up some of my favorite photos. At first I was happy with how the colors looked and how the scene was composed. Then I noticed it was a little soft. Well I had just gotten a new contacts prescription so that must be it. Changed to my glasses and the photos were even blurrier! I went through photo after photo and most ca
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Week 29 GPlus Project 52

Week 29 Summer/Winter
Infrared road
The theme for this week was winter or summer. With this photo I'll let the viewer decide for themselves. Is this a winter scene? Something else? The true answer is it is an infrared photo. Infrared photography has always interested me and coincidentally to the theme of this week I happened to order a cheap 720nm filter to see how it would work out. The idea behind IR photography is to severely limit the amount of visible light to hit the sensor and allow as much IR light in. This can be difficult with modern digital cameras because there's an anti-IR filter usually applied over the sensor so shots using an external filter need to be long exposures. This shot is a full 60 seconds, which explains why it's not as sharp as it can be. A converted camera, one that has the anti-IR filter taken off and an IR filter put in it's place, would be able to take sharper photos, but at the obvious negative of only being able to take IR shots.

Below you can see how the photo evolved from initial shot to finished product.




You can view this, and the rest of my Project 52 photos here.

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