Ending the year with a new gallery for my favorites of 2019 earlier this time.
A notable change this year is that I began trying out a fuji body back into aps-c, so I’m walking with the sigma 10-20 again and worrying less about noise reduction. Also something ticked and I got super inspired for composition of rainforest photos, never before I got happy with the composition of so many shots of this kind, getting lucky with the weather played a huge part, but still felt easier than before.
In 2018 I noticed I was lighting and processing my images in a much darker way than past years, I feel like I’m balancing back into the usual exposure this year, and with the fuji I’m noticing better green tones too, shouldn’t make a difference when shooting raw but maybe the film simulation fuji has a starting point in post processing makes me biased in keeping a desatured green that is looking more real to me, I’m noticing this difference specially when I shoot macro with it compared to m4/3.
I also got more careless hiking under the rain (missing weather sealed gear more and more) so this was also a year of witnessing animal behaviors that were new to me, such as pumpkin toadlets mating, moths sucking insects trapped on spider webs, a harvestman stealing spider prey, a flatworm preying on a harvestman and so on.
The complete 2019 gallery is on https://www.primalshutter.com/Portfolio-Year/2019/
I also just published my 2020 calendar with some favorite insect photos, if anyone’s interested you can get it here
