365/132 Hometown/4

This sign tells you, clearly, that you're now entering the town of Rotterdam, right? Well, unless you're a local and you know where you are, you wouldn't have a clue what town you just left. There is no "City of Schenectady" sign anywhere, and as far as I know, there's only 2 locations with such a sign, even though there's plenty of roads leading to the city.

Lens and camera settings:
14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 II @ 17mm, f/11, 1/125sec and ISO 400.

365/130 Hometown/2

Finally some sun today! My wife really liked this view, so I decided to snap a photo of it.

Lens and camera settings:
14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 II @ 17mm, f/13, 1/100sec and ISO 100.


Again, landscapes are best viewed much larger than 500 pixels wide.

365/124 Affection/3

It's only right to make my favorite subjects, closest to my heart, part of this theme! Today I experimented with Lightroom, to see if I can get away with not using Photoshop at all for processing. Close, but no cigar. Fair is fair, all of the actual post processing was done in Lightroom, but then I still needed my 20 pixel frame with 2 pixel white border and my logo to be included, which ironically I needed Photoshop for. If anyone wants to enlighten me to the path of freedom by showing me how to do those simple things in Lightroom, I'd forever appreciate it!

Lens and camera settings:

14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 II @ 27mm, f/3.0, 1/100sec and ISO 100.

Not bad at all, especially not with the colors! A little oversharpened, I must admit, probably because in PS I ended up resizing the photo after adding the frame, and then I accidentally resharpened, and I was too lazy to reprocess.