Second September Assignment

[F, Calla & Luca]

For those interested we can submit photos dealing with focus issues. You can show photos in and out of focus. Or photos where you change the main focus.

I'm copying a response of Mike's to a request for a secondary assignment. As usual it is full of good ideas and an example. See below.

Camilla, I posted this last month on getting the camera to focus.  Have you already mastered this?  The photos you posted that you took with your Canon T1i all had focus on Darwin so maybe you have but I know quite a few of the photos posted last month had the focus not on the doodle which can really detract from a photo.  I bring this up as an idea since it could potentially help for the calendar submissions but requires reading a page or two from your specific camera manual. Mike

 

 

Example from last year.  This is supposed to be a photo of Sheba and Duke but instead is a photo of a flower with 2 doodles in the background since the focus was on the flower.

[F, Calla & Luca]

The color is clearly off but I think they are lovely pictures. Let's see what the experts say. Why not here. We could start a new discussion on "What went wrong?"

[Jean, Rylee and Cooper]

Thanks F.  I think a "What went wrong" discussion group would be good.  I'll have to start it.

[Ann Kendig]

I like you photos of the boat.  The blur conveys motion to me and probably makes a better photo this way than one that is tack sharp.

Your metadata (info about the photo) shows a shutter speed of 30 seconds so you had a very long exposure. The water looks pretty calm but does show some movement in the moon lit area so the boat would of had some small amount of motion causing the blur.  I think the small boat has more blur probably due to moving more since it is smaller.  Your aperture showed to be f4.5 more of a shallow depth of field.  Mike

[Jean, Rylee and Cooper]

Thanks Mike, you are kind about liking the photos.  How do you get the metadata?  That is so nice to be able to get.  Do you think the aperture should have been different?

[Ann Kendig]

You get the metadata from your editing software.  Ann and I use Aperture 3, Apple only software and it is very easy to get the metadata just a couple of key strokes. The metadata can really help in trouble shooting a photo. What I have been doing to a number of the posted photos is click on them to enlarge them, save them and then pull in to Aperture 3.  Example of photo and metadata with it as shown in Aperture. Maybe others would post how the get this info in the software they use or if it shows it.  As far as your aperture I think it is more common for landscape shooting to have the aperture set to f11 or more but depends on what effect you are looking for.  The f11 or more will have a lot more depth of field than the f4.5. Mike

[F, Calla & Luca]

Picasa shows it right next to the photo, you can click on Properties under View.