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Before<\/strong><\/p>\n After<\/strong><\/p>\n Santa brought my Christmas present a little early this year.\u00a0 It is a Canon EOS M, Canon’s nod to the mirrorless phenomena.\u00a0 What I love about the camera is that it weighs practically nothing and I can walk around all day without getting a neck ache from carrying the 5 lb monster around my neck.\u00a0 Since the EOS M has the same sensor as my 7D it also offers equivalent image quality. What I dislike about the camera is the limited number of lenses available and while I did purchase the adapter to use my existing lenses I found the result cumbersome at best.\u00a0 There is a reason Canon included a removable tripod mount on the adapter as it is nearly impossible to hold the small camera with an overbearing lens and still select a focusing point and manage exposure settings from the touch screen.\u00a0 That said, as soon as Canon offers a telephoto zoom lens in the M format I will be all over it and this will become my go to camera for travel and general wandering around.<\/p>\n So, I was chomping at the bit to test the new camera while temperatures hovered in the single digits and teens this week.\u00a0 When the temperature finally climbed into the 20s I was out the door wandering around the neighborhood looking for something interesting to shoot.\u00a0 The most interesting thing I found was these icicles hanging from the overhead sidewalk canopy outside the Southside library. I included the top of the tree as a counterpoint in the composition. Unfortunately after playing with the camera inside I forgot to reset the ISO back down from 3200 so one of the first things I had to do was apply a noise reduction filter.\u00a0 I also cropped and rotated to get rid of the shadows at the top.\u00a0 I adjusted the exposure a little using levels and then it was into Nik Color Efex Pro.\u00a0 I experimented with solarization filters which gave some interesting looks but decided against them and went on to add a couple of bi color filters to add some visual interest.\u00a0 By the time I was done it was a little too garish for my taste so I added a pastel filter to tone things down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before After Santa brought my Christmas present a little early this year.\u00a0 It is a Canon EOS M, Canon’s nod to the mirrorless phenomena.\u00a0 What I love about the camera is that it weighs practically nothing and I can walk around all day without getting a neck ache from carrying the 5 lb monster around… Continue reading Icicles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-nik","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"icicles_after\"](\"http:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/wp-content\/gallery\/gallery\/icicles_after.jpg\")
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