This was a fun learning experience. First off, I learned about using back button focus on my camera. This allows you to lock the focus on your target before you press the shutter. Normally a half press of the shutter will lock the focus. Honestly, I like having the second button. It feels awkward to half press then full press to focus and take a photo.


Secondly, I learned about using the panorama tools in Affinity Photo. That really causes my computer to think but its way better than doing it manually. Now I just need to learn how to take the photo so it doesn't create an s-curve in the final image.

Yum! Hot Fresh Donuts!

II had a lot of fun editing this photo. I learned a new technique in Affinity Photo. I wanted to separate the neon sign from the rest of the image. My first attempt at doing this was by duplicating the image layers, but that caused them to blend together. So I followed a guide on how to isolate and group a set of layers away from the rest of the image. Affinity also has a 'Selection from layer' tool that allowed me to inversely edit the rest of the image to be black and white. This works but it leaves a hard edge. I can use a guass blur to soften that edge and a brush but it's not perfect. I bet there's a way to do a custom shape instead of a selection but for now this works.


Shout out to my friend for telling me it looks bad until I got to this edit. lol

Like with all the images I start to edit I have no clue to what I want to do.

I got kinda annoyed with this one. I like the angle of the shot but I didn't like the colors. The sky constantly wanted to be a very light blue. But I tweaked the blue and the green to remove that sort of overcast sky look.
I'm usually wearing dark sunglasses when I take photos and I try to match the colors I see.

These photos were edited in Affinity Photo to bring out the red of the bricks.

There are a few things I would change. It was raining outside so I used my car as a tripod to take these shots. My camera is super sensitive to motion and considering it has no image stabilization at all. So, having my car running while trying to take photos made every photo blurry. I didn't notice it on the view finder. Secondly, I should've brought my batteries and for whatever reason the camera kept shutting down. So, I had to be quick with my shots. I'm not sure if this raspberry pi has a thermal issue or I did something wrong but it gets super hot super fast. I should check the journalctl to see if CamUI is causing the pi to crash or if its overheating.