Playing With The E-M5 II Enroute To Tokyo
September 1, 2020Playing With the E-M5 II While En route to Tokyo
Playing? Yes, playing is important. I have found, at least for me, that playing or doodling as musicians call it, is great for the learning process. It is also helpful for the creative process. The more you play with your equipment the more comfortable you become with it. The more you play with the technical aspects of photography the more you develop an understanding of how to use it.
For example. I have been spending time trying to gain a better understanding of using white balance during the creative process. It’s one thing to read about it, but it cements the details into your head as you play with it. But, I am going off on a rabbit trail. Back to the Narita trip.
Here are a couple of things I learned while playing
The E-m5 II will allow me to shoot one image and it will apply several Art filters to the same image without me having to take several photos of the same image and add a unique filter for each image. Pretty cool. I don’t know how that will help me in the future, but it is nice to know. It is stored away in my grey matter for use at a future date.
If I am looking at the images in Photo Mechanic or Olympus Workspace, the JPEGS show the filters apply, but the RAW files do not show the filters. Helpful for the future? Who knows, but it is nice to gain the understanding for future workflow enhancements.
While looking at the images in Photo Mechanic, I can not see the name of the filter that was applied by accessing the IPTC or EXIF information. Photo Mechanic simply identifies the filter as Creative. However, in the Olympus Workspace program, I can see the specifics of the filter applied, and then I can note that for future use. Also, DXO 3 also identifies the mode as Creative.
This is not a complaint about DXO3 or Photo Mechanic. This is just a piece of information that can be helpful for future use. What help could it be? It can help speed the creative process in the future. What if I spend a morning doing street photography in London while using the Olympus Art Filters and then I decide I really love a specific filter and want to tweak it a little and use it again. I know now how to quickly identify that applied filter and I don’t have to spend time trying to figure that out again. I can jump immediately to applying some creative tweaks for future use.
Well, enough of that. Here a couple of images taken with the E-M5 II with a brief description of the filters that were being used.
