ISO 80; f/3.2; 1/80; 7.6mm; 6:51 pm
It rained yesterday. Not for long, but long enough. The sky was so full of clouds that it made for a terrific sunset.
I’m still having trouble capturing the right colors in the sky either at sunrise or sunset. I’ve played with the white balance in the camera and no luck. So I used Aperture to bring out the colors as I saw them and had Carl verify for quality control!
Isn’t this an amazing sky?
ISO 80; f/4.5 1/1000 5mm; 6:17am Saturday (Cropped) Continue reading »
ISO 80 f/5.8 1/250 .67ev 28.5mm
This is last night’s sunset… without a bit of post processing. After attending John Greengo’s class yesterday I decided to play with the Exposure setting on my camera… I have a Canon PowerShot SD 950, which is a point and shoot camera… but as far as P&S goes, its pretty good. I do have the ability to change the exposure by up to 2 stops in either direction, thus I experimented last night.
What I learned was that by increasing the expo by 1/3, it changed the shutter speed to a slower speed (from 1/500 to 1/250). Since the camera was on a tripod the slower speed was o.k and in fact I think the mountains are clearer on the slower speed.
And it did make for a “better” histogram.
Anyway, I’m finding this free photo class immensely informative… even for my point & shoot camera. At least I understand its limitation a whole lot better. I’m doing my best not to have DSLR envy… I simply can’t afford one so that’s that.
Sunset Glow is not a very original use of this theme… but it is so much fun to photograph.
The top photo was taken 2 nights ago … when there were no clouds in the sky — just this great big burning ball of fire. So bright it hurts your eyes even in the photo image!
It was 6:50 PM.
Aperture: f8; Shutter Speed 1/250; Focal Length 7.7mm, ISO 80 (settings chosen by the camera) Continue reading »
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