Camera vs. brain

Morning light filtering through the woods never ceases to draw my eye - and often my camera. Since manmade cameras lack the wondrous sophistication of the divinely designed human brain, I am often frustrated in my attempts to capture what I see. Playing with the pictures in Preview can bring them closer to reality, but sometimes it's fun to move them further away. This morning's examples:

SOOC (straight out of camera)

"Gamma" increased

SOOC converted to black & white ("saturation" at its lowest setting)
"Saturation" at its lowest, "gamma" increased:

Following is another example of the camera's struggle to capture what the eye can easily register. I finished Navajo-plying my Waterlilies singles and skeined it off a couple nights ago. The depth of color Laura dyed into this BFL/silk fiber is glorious - and beyond the abilities of my camera to portray accurately. The following two photos of the plied yarn on the niddy-noddy in artificial light and of the skeined yarn in natural light come close, with the top photo capturing it best.
BTW; I LOVE the results of Navajo-plying! There's over 1000 yards of yumminess there - probably enough for two Romi shawlettes.

That's it for today from . . .