2012.06.01
In that lovely light after sunset and before total darkness we went down to the river to see how we'd go with the lights and the boats. The tide was rapidly reaching its zenith, so there was movement which smoothed out with the length of each shot. I tried RAW, but next time I try RAW I'll do RAW-Fine as I know the jpeg image from that is a high meg image, whereas when I changed the straight RAW on Picasa it is not the quality I would have liked. That is something I will have to read up on to see if there is some other way to change from a NEF to a jpeg without losing so much quality.
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| f/22, 10 sec (tripod), ISO 800, 52mm focal length, Matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Cloudy |
2012.06.02
It rained overnight and the cloud didn't lift all day, a fairly cool day all day. I took some shots of the raindrops on my roses both this morning and this afternoon (when this one was taken). I didn't use RAW, just left it at my normal jpeg-Fine. I used my macro lens and set the picture control to Neutral.
It rained overnight and the cloud didn't lift all day, a fairly cool day all day. I took some shots of the raindrops on my roses both this morning and this afternoon (when this one was taken). I didn't use RAW, just left it at my normal jpeg-Fine. I used my macro lens and set the picture control to Neutral.
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| f/40, 1/6 sec (tripod), ISO 400, 60mm macro lens, Metering: Centre-weighted Average, Aperture priority, WB: Cloudy |
2012.06.03
When we were going to church this morning I noticed some fungal shapes up the back near the gum tree. I had a quick look and determined that I would get some shots this afternoon. One of them looks as if he should be related to ET! I tried some between the two services but most of those I deleted immediately. Being in my dress, I couldn't get down on the ground. The dappled sunlight was lovely but I had to wait till late this afternoon, when, changed into jeans and using my tripod I was able to get clear shots. By then it had clouded right over again.
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| f/32, 1.3 sec (tripod), ISO 400, 60mm Macro lens, Matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Cloudy |
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| f/29, 4 sec (tripod), ISO 100, 60mm Macro lens, Matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Cloudy |
2012.06.04
Because we'd had such a windy night and morning I went down to the mouth of the Don River after lunch expecting some waves, but Bass Strait was a smooth as it generally is! However, the skies were amazing and so I tried some manual setting of shutter speed and aperture. I wondered if the exposure was wrong when I put them up on the computer and did an automatic check using Picasa but there was very little change, so I suppose it wasn't too bad! The sheen on the water and the colours and movement of the cloud are pretty accurate. My question is, should I have had the ISO higher than 100? The sun was somewhat shining through the clouds when I was taking these and I remembered to change the white balance from cloudy to sunny when it made an appearance ... I'm improving in that area! I had my macro lens on because I had been taking some close-ups of part of the retaining wall of the river but I left it on as it was definitely too breezy to change lenses in the open!
Because we'd had such a windy night and morning I went down to the mouth of the Don River after lunch expecting some waves, but Bass Strait was a smooth as it generally is! However, the skies were amazing and so I tried some manual setting of shutter speed and aperture. I wondered if the exposure was wrong when I put them up on the computer and did an automatic check using Picasa but there was very little change, so I suppose it wasn't too bad! The sheen on the water and the colours and movement of the cloud are pretty accurate. My question is, should I have had the ISO higher than 100? The sun was somewhat shining through the clouds when I was taking these and I remembered to change the white balance from cloudy to sunny when it made an appearance ... I'm improving in that area! I had my macro lens on because I had been taking some close-ups of part of the retaining wall of the river but I left it on as it was definitely too breezy to change lenses in the open!
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| f/9, 1/1000 sec, ISO 100, 60mm (Macro lens) matrix metering, Manual priority, WB: Sunny |
2012.06.05
On our way to Hobart we stopped in to explore Westbury a little and happened upon a village green! This scene could come directly from an English village I think!
On our way to Hobart we stopped in to explore Westbury a little and happened upon a village green! This scene could come directly from an English village I think!
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| f/16, 1/160 sec, ISO 400, 22mm focal length, Matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Sunny |
2012.06.06
Having collected our daughter from the airport, we explored the bottom end of the Lime Kiln track at the base of Mt Wellington while she attempted to overcome jet lag. The remains of an old farm are scattered and the bush is reclaiming them. I had a great deal of fun trying different angles as well as apertures with these derelict objects.
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| f/22, 1/15 sec, ISO 400, 26mm focal length, Matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Sunny |
2012.06.07
On our way home from Hobart we stopped many times to take some photos ... the normal 3+ hours took 7 hours!! So I will put two shots and one changed one -the duck is at Oatlands and the bridge is at Ross, (straight from the camera and with some fill light done on Picasa).
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| f/7.1, 1/800 sec, ISO 800, 300mm focal length, Spot metering (focus on the eye), Aperture priority, WB: Cloudy |
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| f/22, 1/13 sec, ISO 400, ND8 filter, 26 mm focal length, Matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Sunny |
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| As above but a small amount of "fill light" given on Picasa |
2012.06.08
I hadn't been well today and so didn't get out with the camera. However, I am still working on a crazy quilt I started many years ago for my daughter. Crazy quilts were the old way of making quilts with whatever was available, especially flour-bags and scraps from dressmaking, and as I used to buy my flour in bulk in these bags, and make all our clothes and so had lots of scraps, what better thing than to emulate the frugality of past generations. Each bag is covered with the scraps of odd shaped material joined and embroidered with wadding between. I am up to putting these nine used flour-bag backed pieces together in three strips of three, each column being joined by a strip of white material, also attached by embroidery, and I had one of the three strips on the ironing board for ease of embroidering, so I took a photo of this. I first experimented on Automatic Picture, and then, using that aperture as a guide, and upping the ISO so that I had a manageable shutter speed, I took a few shots - more for posterity than anything else! I tried the two different house light settings in white balance, but the Auto was far more accurate than either the 'incandescent' or the 'cool white fluorescent'.
I hadn't been well today and so didn't get out with the camera. However, I am still working on a crazy quilt I started many years ago for my daughter. Crazy quilts were the old way of making quilts with whatever was available, especially flour-bags and scraps from dressmaking, and as I used to buy my flour in bulk in these bags, and make all our clothes and so had lots of scraps, what better thing than to emulate the frugality of past generations. Each bag is covered with the scraps of odd shaped material joined and embroidered with wadding between. I am up to putting these nine used flour-bag backed pieces together in three strips of three, each column being joined by a strip of white material, also attached by embroidery, and I had one of the three strips on the ironing board for ease of embroidering, so I took a photo of this. I first experimented on Automatic Picture, and then, using that aperture as a guide, and upping the ISO so that I had a manageable shutter speed, I took a few shots - more for posterity than anything else! I tried the two different house light settings in white balance, but the Auto was far more accurate than either the 'incandescent' or the 'cool white fluorescent'.
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| f/5.6, 1/30 sec, ISO 1600, 40 mm focal length, Matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Auto |
2012.06.09
We had a wonderful stroll in the Don Reserve late this afternoon. On the way back to the car we discovered this spider web in the trunk of a tree. Wouldn't we all like to know what lurked in there? Because it was totally shady by then and the sun was right on the horizon, I upped the ISO a long way to see if I could take it without a flash. I also tried with a flash and with a number of different apertures. This is one without flash and, as you can see by the shutter speed, I did have the tripod in use as well as the remote shutter release.
We had a wonderful stroll in the Don Reserve late this afternoon. On the way back to the car we discovered this spider web in the trunk of a tree. Wouldn't we all like to know what lurked in there? Because it was totally shady by then and the sun was right on the horizon, I upped the ISO a long way to see if I could take it without a flash. I also tried with a flash and with a number of different apertures. This is one without flash and, as you can see by the shutter speed, I did have the tripod in use as well as the remote shutter release.
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| f/22, 1.3 sec, ISO 3200, 55mm focal length, Centre-weighted Average metering, Aperture priority, WB: Auto |
2012.06.10
It was latish in the afternoon when we went to Moorland Beach at Wesley Vale for a stroll and a search for our favourite things ... Steve - birds; me - patterns and landscapes , both of which we did in various parts of the beach. A friend had told me that to take water with glare one must have a fast shutter speed, so I upped the ISO from 200 to 1600 and dropped the aperture from f/22 to f/11 as I still wanted depth to the shots. If that was not the right thing to do, please correct me as the whole point to this exercise is further learning. I had fun, but this shot, although not my best, intrigued me. Because I moved the camera up from the sand towards the sun's bright path across the sea, it raised the shutter speed to 1/4000 sec. Being that fast, it caught a splash and its shadow on the sand. It may not be the most picturesque of photos but it certainly taught me how the camera can freeze a moment in time! I know there is some white out in the glare at the top of the shot and I have to find out what to do about that ... maybe I should have put on the nd filter - that is an experiment for another day. I also had some fun shooting with black and white, especially with the lengthening shadows of the beach stones and the seaweed - thus having a second photo for today!
It was latish in the afternoon when we went to Moorland Beach at Wesley Vale for a stroll and a search for our favourite things ... Steve - birds; me - patterns and landscapes , both of which we did in various parts of the beach. A friend had told me that to take water with glare one must have a fast shutter speed, so I upped the ISO from 200 to 1600 and dropped the aperture from f/22 to f/11 as I still wanted depth to the shots. If that was not the right thing to do, please correct me as the whole point to this exercise is further learning. I had fun, but this shot, although not my best, intrigued me. Because I moved the camera up from the sand towards the sun's bright path across the sea, it raised the shutter speed to 1/4000 sec. Being that fast, it caught a splash and its shadow on the sand. It may not be the most picturesque of photos but it certainly taught me how the camera can freeze a moment in time! I know there is some white out in the glare at the top of the shot and I have to find out what to do about that ... maybe I should have put on the nd filter - that is an experiment for another day. I also had some fun shooting with black and white, especially with the lengthening shadows of the beach stones and the seaweed - thus having a second photo for today!
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| f/11, 1/4000 sec, ISO 1600, 24mm focal length, Matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Sunny |
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| f/11, 1/1000 sec, ISO 1600, 55mm focal length, matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Sunny |
2012.06.11
We went up to Guide Falls for the afternoon, a very pleasant wander together. Unfortunately the birds were not out in force for Steve today ... maybe because of the number of people around, being a public holiday in this part of Australia. I went with the intention of using the nd filter and seeing how it would make a difference in the falls and the other cascades, and I was pleased with a good number of shots.
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| f/22, 10 sec (tripod and remote shutter release), ISO 100, nd8 filter, 28mm focal length, matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Sunny |
2012.06.12
I had to go to Ulverstone today and so put the camera in the car. By the time my meeting had finished it was early afternoon and the weather was on a change ... to the east along the beach it was blue skies, white clouds and sunny; to the west it was grey skies, threatening clouds and very dark. The beach was at very low tide and I really needed a wide-angle lens to capture just how far out the water was and the wide expanse of sand at that stage of the tidal cycle. It is on my list of things I want, but probably the thing I crave most is a lens hood that'd fit my 52mm lens ... being a Nikon kit lens, for some reason lens hoods do not come with it! The best (potential) shot I got was spoiled by the fact that my sleeve got in the way as I tried to shield the lens from the sun and, with cropping, it loses so much of either the sand or the sky it isn't worth keeping. In that shot the sky and sand had both the differing cloud and light from both east and west as it was shot out to the north. A lesson learned ... have something large that I can cause protection for the lens from a distance away and so not spoil the photo! This shot doesn't give that same differential but does attempt to portray the wide low tide expanse and the clear skies looking east.
I had to go to Ulverstone today and so put the camera in the car. By the time my meeting had finished it was early afternoon and the weather was on a change ... to the east along the beach it was blue skies, white clouds and sunny; to the west it was grey skies, threatening clouds and very dark. The beach was at very low tide and I really needed a wide-angle lens to capture just how far out the water was and the wide expanse of sand at that stage of the tidal cycle. It is on my list of things I want, but probably the thing I crave most is a lens hood that'd fit my 52mm lens ... being a Nikon kit lens, for some reason lens hoods do not come with it! The best (potential) shot I got was spoiled by the fact that my sleeve got in the way as I tried to shield the lens from the sun and, with cropping, it loses so much of either the sand or the sky it isn't worth keeping. In that shot the sky and sand had both the differing cloud and light from both east and west as it was shot out to the north. A lesson learned ... have something large that I can cause protection for the lens from a distance away and so not spoil the photo! This shot doesn't give that same differential but does attempt to portray the wide low tide expanse and the clear skies looking east.
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| f/22, 1/6 sec (tripod and nd8 filter), ISO 100, 18mm focal length, matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Sunny |
2012.06.13
A busy day meant no camera until late in the afternoon which was pretty overcast, and that was only out in the garden with the few flowers. These jonquils are growing up under the dwarf apple tree. I don't think they know that winter has only just begun! I had spot focus on and also spot metering, but for some of the shots I think it would have been better to have had centre-weighted metering.
A busy day meant no camera until late in the afternoon which was pretty overcast, and that was only out in the garden with the few flowers. These jonquils are growing up under the dwarf apple tree. I don't think they know that winter has only just begun! I had spot focus on and also spot metering, but for some of the shots I think it would have been better to have had centre-weighted metering.
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| f/5.6, 1/50 sec, ISO 500, 55mm focal length, Spot metering, Aperture priority, WB: Cloudy |
2012.06.14
We left for Hobart very late but we needed to stop a couple of times as we were both tired. It was very late in the afternoon when we decided to take some shots of a very different church building. It was not only late, but it was very, very overcast and starting to mizzle, so I put a high ISO on the camera.
We left for Hobart very late but we needed to stop a couple of times as we were both tired. It was very late in the afternoon when we decided to take some shots of a very different church building. It was not only late, but it was very, very overcast and starting to mizzle, so I put a high ISO on the camera.
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| f/9, 1/25 sec, ISO 1600, 24 mm focal length, matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Cloudy |
2012.06.15
Tonight was our daughter's birthday party and a great night it was. I took a lot of snaps of family and friends, remembering after a few shots that I'd need to change the flash to the red-eye reduction and I'm so glad I did that early on. Because it was crowded and I had been asked to get everyone there, I chickened out of using manual settings and used the automatic portrait setting the camera has. I like this shot of my four children.
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| Automatic Portrait setting: f/5.6, 1/30 sec, ISO 800, 48 mm focal length, matrix metering, Flash (auto, strobe return, red-eye),WB: Auto |
2012.06.16
Travelling back home, we came to the edge of the weather pattern, moving from sunshine into extremely inclement weather. We were very late and so I popped the camera onto the automatic speed setting and stuck the camera out of the wound down window, in order to capture the feel of the change as we drove under the cloud at approximately 100 kph.
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| Automatic Speed setting: f/8, 1/2000 sec, ISO 400, 18 mm focal length, Matrix metering, WB:Auto |
2012.06.17
In the early morning the sun was valiantly trying to shine over our back yard and produced a beautiful rainbow, but out the front the low cloud from the rain of the past 24 hours persisted and as the sun went behind it produced an amazing golden hue. I had the white balance on sunny for the backyard shots and didn't change. It also began to rain again so I had to run and get this quickly. Probably would have been better if I had taken another step out to the road and missed the wires in the top right corner!
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| f/9, 1/250 sec, ISO 200, 45 mm focal length, Matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Sunny |
2012.06.18
On the weekend I went to the camera shop in Hobart to ask what the 400 filter was that a friend had told me about. There is a new variable filter that turns from ND2 up to a maximum which is equivalent to this 400 my friend had mentioned. I decided to get it in the hope that I can learn enough to get those beautiful seascapes that have the sea like gossamer around the rocks etc. Today I had my first go and, boy, do I have a lot to learn. I found that on Aperture setting I had mostly disasters but did better on the Shutter setting, as long as I followed the cameras instructions about it being too bright etc. This is the best of the ones I took, but I have no idea at which point of the turn on the filter dial that I took it! Notebook might need to be used until I get used to this filter!!
On the weekend I went to the camera shop in Hobart to ask what the 400 filter was that a friend had told me about. There is a new variable filter that turns from ND2 up to a maximum which is equivalent to this 400 my friend had mentioned. I decided to get it in the hope that I can learn enough to get those beautiful seascapes that have the sea like gossamer around the rocks etc. Today I had my first go and, boy, do I have a lot to learn. I found that on Aperture setting I had mostly disasters but did better on the Shutter setting, as long as I followed the cameras instructions about it being too bright etc. This is the best of the ones I took, but I have no idea at which point of the turn on the filter dial that I took it! Notebook might need to be used until I get used to this filter!!
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| f/29, 1.35 sec, ISO 100, nd variable filter, 45mm focal length, matrix metering, Shutter priority, WB: Sunny |
2012.06.19
Being our daughter's birthday, we went to Anvers for a scrumptious lunch. Afterwards I did some shots of the flowers in the gardens there using a single spot auto focus. I'm not sure what this flower is, but it sure brightened up a cool winter's afternoon.
Being our daughter's birthday, we went to Anvers for a scrumptious lunch. Afterwards I did some shots of the flowers in the gardens there using a single spot auto focus. I'm not sure what this flower is, but it sure brightened up a cool winter's afternoon.
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| f/5.6, 1/400 sec, ISO 100, 55mm focal length, Spot metering, Aperture priority, WB: Sunny |
2012.06.20
After yesterday's sunny weather, today was wet, wild and windy, to say nothing of being very, very cold. After school I shot down to some of our beaches as well as the river mouth to see the waves on the way home. It was almost impossible to stand in the wind and some of my shots are off horizontal as the wind blew the camera around in my hand. I put the ISO up as it was pretty late and very dark. I liked this one of the surfers in the boating channel at the mouth of the river, especially of the surfer kneeling on his surfboard about to dive through the wave. These waves were large enough to catch on their surfboards and be over their heads as they ran before the wave. I'm glad I didn't go out on the boat to Melbourne last night!
After yesterday's sunny weather, today was wet, wild and windy, to say nothing of being very, very cold. After school I shot down to some of our beaches as well as the river mouth to see the waves on the way home. It was almost impossible to stand in the wind and some of my shots are off horizontal as the wind blew the camera around in my hand. I put the ISO up as it was pretty late and very dark. I liked this one of the surfers in the boating channel at the mouth of the river, especially of the surfer kneeling on his surfboard about to dive through the wave. These waves were large enough to catch on their surfboards and be over their heads as they ran before the wave. I'm glad I didn't go out on the boat to Melbourne last night!
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| f/6.3, 1/160 sec, ISO 1000, 55mm focal length, Matrix metering, Aperture Priority, WB: Cloudy |
2012.06.21
I was late home from school and it was going on for dark when I tried a 20 second time exposure in the backyard, something I had never done before. At first I was sorry that I hadn't used a better f/stop for the group of jonquils and then I decided that I actually liked the two cups being the focal point of the clump. What do you think?
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| f/8, 20 sec, ISO 100, 46mm focal length, Matrix metering, Manual settings, WB: Cloudy |
2012.06.22
Yesterday was the shortest day, but unfortunately the days don't get longer quickly so tonight's photo was again on dark. I went down to the river, taking some shots of the ship and the lights reflecting on the water using different apertures. Beside the river is this large sculpture of poppies to recognise the significance of the industry in the area. The sliver of the moon behind the lit sculpture was rather nice, but having a 30 second exposure I hadn't realised there would be movement of the moon - hence the fatness!
Yesterday was the shortest day, but unfortunately the days don't get longer quickly so tonight's photo was again on dark. I went down to the river, taking some shots of the ship and the lights reflecting on the water using different apertures. Beside the river is this large sculpture of poppies to recognise the significance of the industry in the area. The sliver of the moon behind the lit sculpture was rather nice, but having a 30 second exposure I hadn't realised there would be movement of the moon - hence the fatness!
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| f/11, 30 sec, ISO 100, 36mm focal length, Matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Auto |
2012.06.23
We went for a wander in a different bush reserve this afternoon and were thrilled with the number of grevillea plants that were flowering and the various honey-eaters that were flitting in and out of each bush. This empty, dying head standing above a clump of long leaves appealed to me.
We went for a wander in a different bush reserve this afternoon and were thrilled with the number of grevillea plants that were flowering and the various honey-eaters that were flitting in and out of each bush. This empty, dying head standing above a clump of long leaves appealed to me.
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| f/5.6, 1/30 sec, ISO 800, 55mm focal length, Spot focus, Centre-weighted average metering, Shutter priority, WB: Auto |
2012.06.24
Today was hectic! Steve was preaching in the far north-west of the state and I took our daughter to Ulverstone to give a brief message on her field of service this morning and then to Launceston for the evening service where Steve joined us. By the time we had had some tea it was almost 9.00 pm when we said goodbye to our daughter and had time to take some shots of one lit up building before heading the 100km back home! I had read about someone taking night shots with the white balance set to tungsten. I didn't know what that was, so set it to incandescent which my photo details tells me is tungsten! The difference between those shots and the ones where the white balance is set to Auto is amazing! This is realistic, the auto was very red.
Today was hectic! Steve was preaching in the far north-west of the state and I took our daughter to Ulverstone to give a brief message on her field of service this morning and then to Launceston for the evening service where Steve joined us. By the time we had had some tea it was almost 9.00 pm when we said goodbye to our daughter and had time to take some shots of one lit up building before heading the 100km back home! I had read about someone taking night shots with the white balance set to tungsten. I didn't know what that was, so set it to incandescent which my photo details tells me is tungsten! The difference between those shots and the ones where the white balance is set to Auto is amazing! This is realistic, the auto was very red.
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| f/5, 5 sec (tripod), ISO 100, 18mm focal length, no flash, matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Incandescent |
2012.06.25
Today's photo ended up being at sunset tonight as we had a visit from old friends which was wonderful. It was bitterly cold and I had my gloves on. I should have used the remote shutter release as I moved the camera a few times. I am still playing with my new variable nd filter trying to figure out what settings to use. Maybe if I google it I might find a tutorial or two on YouTube. I am wondering if maybe I should have used a smaller f/stop ... something to try next time! I left the white balance on sunny for the second shot which was taken after the sun had set but it wasn't dark.
Today's photo ended up being at sunset tonight as we had a visit from old friends which was wonderful. It was bitterly cold and I had my gloves on. I should have used the remote shutter release as I moved the camera a few times. I am still playing with my new variable nd filter trying to figure out what settings to use. Maybe if I google it I might find a tutorial or two on YouTube. I am wondering if maybe I should have used a smaller f/stop ... something to try next time! I left the white balance on sunny for the second shot which was taken after the sun had set but it wasn't dark.
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| f/22, 1.6 sec, ISO 100, 55mm focal length, Matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Sunny |
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| f/22, 25 sec, ISO 100, 26 mm focal length, matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Sunny |
2012.06.26
During our lunch break we went for a walk in the bush and this brown falcon obligingly sat on a dead branch, having flown over my head. I had to try and get the lens through the bush in front of me and unfortunately the only spot that I could get an almost clear shot of him had the sky bright behind him. I am putting up the shot as close as I could get to him and one that I cropped which showed I had got quite good clarity.
During our lunch break we went for a walk in the bush and this brown falcon obligingly sat on a dead branch, having flown over my head. I had to try and get the lens through the bush in front of me and unfortunately the only spot that I could get an almost clear shot of him had the sky bright behind him. I am putting up the shot as close as I could get to him and one that I cropped which showed I had got quite good clarity.
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| f/7.1, 1/250 sec, ISO 500, 300mm focal length, Metering: centre-weighted average, Aperture priority, WB: Sunny |
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| As Above - cropped |
2012.06.27
After a freezing night, it was no wonder we woke up to thick white frost covering everything! As I was ready for school, I could not get down close to the ground to see through the view finder, so I used "live view" to get the camera positioned. I had the macro lens on, and the camera on the tripod. I would have liked to have still been home when the sun came onto the frost as the glistening crystals looked amazing as I was driving to school. I used a 'cloudy' white balance as there was no sun around when I took the shots.
After a freezing night, it was no wonder we woke up to thick white frost covering everything! As I was ready for school, I could not get down close to the ground to see through the view finder, so I used "live view" to get the camera positioned. I had the macro lens on, and the camera on the tripod. I would have liked to have still been home when the sun came onto the frost as the glistening crystals looked amazing as I was driving to school. I used a 'cloudy' white balance as there was no sun around when I took the shots.
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| f/22, 8 sec, ISO 100, 60mm macro lens, Metering: Centre-weighted average, Aperture priority, WB: Cloudy |
2012.06.28
I went to use the camera tonight and I still had the macro lens on, but the auto focus didn't work ... did it freeze in the frost and have something go wrong? With the concern about my son's sudden hospitalisation last night, I had clean forgotten that for the last couple of shots of the frost I had had to use the manual focus as the auto focus had stopped working. Back to the camera shop tomorrow to seek answers! I put on the kit lens for this shot of a man and his workplace. I also tried black and white but it made my husband's hands look like old claws!
I went to use the camera tonight and I still had the macro lens on, but the auto focus didn't work ... did it freeze in the frost and have something go wrong? With the concern about my son's sudden hospitalisation last night, I had clean forgotten that for the last couple of shots of the frost I had had to use the manual focus as the auto focus had stopped working. Back to the camera shop tomorrow to seek answers! I put on the kit lens for this shot of a man and his workplace. I also tried black and white but it made my husband's hands look like old claws!
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| f/5.6, 1/30 sec, ISO 640, 55mm focal length, Metering: Centre-weighted average, Aperture priority, WB: Incandescent |
2012.06.29
Well the macro lens has gone back to the manufacturer! I wonder how long I will be without it? It was a stormy old afternoon and I left school late, but I decided I'd like to see if I could get some freezing of waves as the rain had stopped for a short while [to say nothing of the fact that I was freezing in the wind taking the photos!]. It was dark because of the overcast conditions but also because it was time for sunset. Because of this, I put the ISO up to 500 and took the aperture way down as depth of field did not need to be a consideration.
Well the macro lens has gone back to the manufacturer! I wonder how long I will be without it? It was a stormy old afternoon and I left school late, but I decided I'd like to see if I could get some freezing of waves as the rain had stopped for a short while [to say nothing of the fact that I was freezing in the wind taking the photos!]. It was dark because of the overcast conditions but also because it was time for sunset. Because of this, I put the ISO up to 500 and took the aperture way down as depth of field did not need to be a consideration.
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| f/5.6, 1/320 sec, ISO 500, 62 mm focal length, Matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Cloudy |
2012.06.30
I had an hour appointment at Burnie Hospital today at midday, so, after a very late lunch at a fantastic fish restaurant, we spent some time taking shots around the foreshore and then we stopped again at Sulphur Creek on the way home to explore a beach we'd never walked on before. I'd like to return there when the sun was not so low in the western sky, but with this shot it certainly brought a deeper colour to the rocks [the beach must face northwest and so the western sun played havoc with my lens in some shots]. I'd also like to have a day with my tripod ... the rock formations were great!
I had an hour appointment at Burnie Hospital today at midday, so, after a very late lunch at a fantastic fish restaurant, we spent some time taking shots around the foreshore and then we stopped again at Sulphur Creek on the way home to explore a beach we'd never walked on before. I'd like to return there when the sun was not so low in the western sky, but with this shot it certainly brought a deeper colour to the rocks [the beach must face northwest and so the western sun played havoc with my lens in some shots]. I'd also like to have a day with my tripod ... the rock formations were great!
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| f/11, 1/25 sec, ISO 100, 32mm focal length, matrix metering, Aperture priority, WB: Sunny |
And thus endeth the first half of the year. I am enjoying this challenge and learning a lot ... so much, that I realise how little I know about photography! I hope the second half of the year is just as much fun and that my learning continues. One way that I can learn is to have positive critiquing from you, my friends!
