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and pour knowledge directly into brain. :)
SINGLE THEME APERTURE
f4.2 at 1/320 ISO 200I struggled a little with the 18% gray concept and took a lot of shots that were too dark even when I metered off my palm. So I did that, plus over-exposed these shots. Did I do too much or too little?
f11 at 1/50
f22 at 1/10Ummm, that morning light is pretty...see how the plate kinda glows on the left side? I like the shallow depth of field in the other shots better.
WHO CARES APERTURE
f22 at 1/6 ISO 400This is Chris, our 15 year old grandson, who had just finished his share of the weed whacking using his preferred method - a machete. You'll see that in a second. He hates to get his picture taken but condescended to help me as long as he didn't have to wash up first. He's in front of the shed door to get the "all on one plane effect" and I see from this shot that because I was hand-holding the camera and didn't use the rule exception, this shot isn't really sharp.
f11 at 1/25
f 3.3 at 1/400Of course, Chris likes this shot the best. ;D
STORYTELLING APERTURE
The horse pasture behind our house. I should have taken a ladder to stand on because the dog fennel (the feathery weed) has gotten almost taller than I am.
f25 at 1/125I like this one the best since that feathery fennel has more detail with a deeper Depth of Field
f 4.2 at 1/4000Oops, I forgot to mark what ISO setting I was using...AND I can see that the camera sensors need to be cleaned because there are telltale blotches on each shot. I tried cleaning with a bulb thing-y but didn't do much other than move stuff around...Brooke, can you advise me?
f 5/6 at 1/2000This was supposed to be f8 or f11...what was I thinking?!
Cool, I'm the first to comment on your blog! Your first blog in fact. Is their a prize for that? I am not an expert or anything but, I don't feel like your egg pictures are too overexposed. I thought that they had really good contrast. It was also nice to see a blue sky picture. Congrats on that. Great photos.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed these photos. I especially loved the egg pictures. I didn't really think they were over or under exposed. I actually really love the way you captured that beautiful sunlight on the glass and in the highlights and shadows on the eggs. It's been raining and gloomy where I live for several days now--I'm really starting to miss the sunlight and the blue sky. Can't wait to see more next week!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the encouragement :) As far as weather goes...I'm a little jealous that you all have fall colors and some crisp weather, where here there are hardly any changes of season. The upside is lots of blue skies with really beautiful clouds - I guess we can all be thankful for the positives no matter where we live.
ReplyDeleteWe moved from Clermont, FL two years ago and this time of the year was always hard for me while living there because I love fall so much. However, I would take a Florida "winter" over a Utah one any day. I never did get out to the ranch while we lived there. My husband's entire family camped out there last New Year's Eve and is doing it again this year.
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job with your photos, the machete was a little scary
Alice!
ReplyDeleteI love your egg pictures! The 18% grey rule and metering... what your metering mode is set to can make a difference. I would make sure that it is set to center weighted... you'll likely get more accurate readings for most images you take. The times that it won't be as accurate are on contrasting lighting conditions.
As for them being over exposed, I think they look great, but it depends on what look you are going for. The beauty of manual shooting of course is that you can manipulate the exposure to be whatever YOU want it to be. Want to bring out more shadows? Put it on the negative. Want to bring i more light? Put it on the positive. I tend to be a bright shooter myself in most situations. And yes, absolutely lovely morning light.
Your grandson looks delighted :) The first two images have definite slower shutter speeds because of the higher apertures. Yep, and if you're hand holding it risks more blur that way. We talk about ISO and Shutter Speed this week, and that can help provide a few more tricks to pull out while hand holding to insure you get a sharper image. Great composition. Love the blue shirt against the wood. And wowsers.... machete wacking weeds? Wild!
The storytelling images: You definitely have some nice distance here! And I'm sure you can probably tell a larger difference when viewing on the big screen at the small details that will appear greater a the higher apertures. Storytelling opportunities are hard to come by for lots of people who aren't usually shooting shots with a large amount of distance involved. They're used all the time by landscape photographers, but less often by people like me who are portrait photographers. But when you do need it, its wonderful to be able to know the right moment to pull it out!
I love your creativity in your shots and your landscape looks beautiful. So sorry about the audit though. :(
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