Another great shot Voni! I really liked your post last week, too (very creative and meaningful--with gorgeous lighting). I don't want to steal Tom's thunder, but this week's effort had potential for some technical difficulties, but you avoided them nicely. What a great captured moment.
Ben Ricci
Rides & Drives: '07 BMW F800ST Low, '07 Porsche Cayman, '06 VW Jetta TDI & '05 BMW R1200ST
I think your exposure is very close to being "right" (only a fraction of a stop under exposed). Years ago I took garden photography courses at a major horticultural facility (Longwood Gardens) and one of the things they stressed in composition is the flower (or other horticultural subject) is clearly the focal point of the frame, but back- and foregrounds* have diminished many otherwise great garden shots. Unless you intended it to be there, I wouldn't worry about it. Also every camera composed shot deserves a good cropping, and your's would take on a whole new look with a little perimeter clipping.Originally Posted by KBasa
This one feels kind of underexposed and I'm not too psyched about the background. It did get the depth of field pretty well, though.
Tom, thanks for encouraging work with DoF. It made me finally get out the manual for my camera and start playing with the A program.
*Which is true of most compositions. There's an old adage "Check your corners," that means before you press the shutter look in the upper righthand corner, lower righthand corner, upper lefthand corner, lower lefthand corner of the frame. If you see something you don't want in a print, move your shooting position or zoom in.
Ben Ricci
Rides & Drives: '07 BMW F800ST Low, '07 Porsche Cayman, '06 VW Jetta TDI & '05 BMW R1200ST
Should I be posting mine in the thread about nothing?
Kbasa, excellent description, that helped me a lot.
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19 BMWMOA Nationals under my belt, and I have no idea what I am doing.
Sunday cool fall Morning
2002 1150GS
"Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba...." Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
"They're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do"- Bill Graham
wider angle
2002 1150GS
"Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba...." Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
"They're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do"- Bill Graham
Lip's Wide Open
Uke's HD
Kenosha, WI
Hand held, no flash and no tripod. I was lucky and got a private tour of Uke's Museum. This bike was a give a way of the 1980's Stones tour. The owner traded it in on a dresser. What a dumb move.
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DOF
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Wide angle, wide aperture.
-Eric
'87 K75T, '07 F650GS
For those of you using Macs and iphoto and are upgrading to the new Leopard operating system it seems that the EXIF info that used to be available with Tiger is now no longer saved within the program. If you hit command I, the headings for exif are there but there is no info. The only info available now is date , time , kind and size of file.. Hopefully there will be a software update to correct this problem soon.
2002 1150GS
"Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba...." Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
"They're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do"- Bill Graham
Kevin Moyer
06 K1200LT
Open Arch, Wide Bridge
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Photographed at the Pittsburgh zoo.
Die worn out instead of rusted out! I am work in progress.
1975 R90/6
1988 K75C
And more cameras than I can handle!
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My riding day is usually on Monday. plus lots of fire damage in the usual riding areas today (San Diego), so my photo ops came while in the back yard. Sorry for not being motorcycle related ... All at ISO 100
I saw this ant go into this flower, caught him as he was leaving ... just barely!
1/250
Aperture: f/4.5
Yellow hibiscus - wanted more depth so f9.0
1/250
Aperture: f/9.0
Brilliant red dragonfly, first I've ever seen in my yard!
1/800
Aperture: f/4.0
www.dmphotosd.com
2006 BMW R 1200 RT, aka "Artoo"
2003 Suzuki Burgman 400 - scooter, aka "Yoda"
2009 Kawasaki Versys 650, aka "DOOM"
... three contributions of 'ordinary life in the wide open' at Larry's River, Nova Scotia.
The first is at the river's edge looking out to the ocean. Almost time to bring in the boats.
With no running water yet we draw from the well.
This last is looking up the river, away from the ocean, and opening into some fine trout territory.
I hope that I have good fortune posting these. Last time was a bit challenging () -Bob
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