My boat pics

Just some pictures of my boat, Using Rule of Thirds and Depth of field to accentuate what I'd like.

One more, neighbourhood daredevil in action.

Studio setting

Working with a set-up under different lighting conditions. Objects were meant to tell a story. I don't like what I did...

Night Shooting Int Digital

Some pictures taken in downtown Vancouver at night. Playing with metering in low light situations.

Pic here - Metered one on the window, one on the sidewalk, chose a halfway point for the shot. So a bit of overexposure and underexposure but a nice enough image.






Needed a 7 second exposure, so put on bulb setting (unlimited time exposure) and put hand over the lens until a car went by to add more lights. Too many neon signs blew out the storefronts but it's a nice effect.






Two pictures, same scene, just exposing for different parts of the scene.

Adobe Work

Working with Adobe, removing colour information and using the history brush.













Black and White image, captured on RAW and then played with the contrast to get the image to really stick out.

Model Face shots

A number of face shots with the same model. Some with a white board to reflect light, some without.

Body Structure

Same model - two pictures.

Very thin body structure. When she had her head lifted it really emphasized her structure. However by asking her to lower her head her picture becomes more emotional because of the angles off her chin.

Studio Work

Studio Work with Models. Took pictures of the this model from various angles, creating a bit of a story.

A stressful moment when I thought the hotshoe on my camera wasn't going to work with the studio lighting. Luckily I was wrong.

You can see the different shades of colour for the same skin on the same person. Lighting really seems to affect the colour and mood of the image.




For this photo, we needed a white board to reflect light back onto the face off the flash. Otherwise the side of the face became washed out.


Final Image: The subject is created.

Aperture Values

By closing up the aperture. You change the way the picture is viewed. The first one shows the full scene, a well built overpass over a nice creek in an obviously western forest. The second one shows a fence that is well beyond it's years of service and adds something to the age of the forest.

Wide Aperture: F14.0Narrow Aperture: F2.8

White Balance Assignment

Assignment: to use the pre-set white balance settings in the camera to affect the picture.

This photo has the appearance of being a taken in a moonlit, dark, foreboding creek.

In actuality, It's a sunny creek that seems to be inhabited by a infestation of sphagnum.

Shutter Speeds

Late sun, grabbed this picture in Tynehead Park.

Iso 1600 (had to crank it in the low light)
F 3.5
1/40th of a second.





Same spot, lengthened the exposure. Sure makes the water look more active.

F6.3
Iso 400
Exposure 1/4 of a second

Shutter Speeds

Here are some shutter speed examples:

The first, Panning with a moving bus with a relatively long exposure time. It's light out so relative to dark situations it might not look like a very long exposure time but for the amount of light it is.


F16 (narrow as possible)
1/8s exposure time


Same conditions. I want to freeze this nice car and I opened up the aperture to let in more light. As well, the background is not as sharp because of the large aperture.



F 2.8
1/320 exposure time.







Here is an example with a human being. The fast action photo with a short time turns out much better than the longer exposure time. In fact the highlights get overblown (bright day) and he still moved so fast you cannot tell what the subject is.

A good example of using a large aperture to direct your viewers attention.

F2.8, 1/200sec exporure









Here is a good application of that in real life.

You can see where Amie is standing, you can see what she's doing. But the mountains/street/clouds don't take away from the subject.

F2.8, 1/640sec exposure

White Subject - White Background

Again, the camera is trying to set the white balance. Because of an absence of darkness, this is the result.
A quick white balance adjustment: and cropped.

Black Scene White Subject

As discussed: When you have a black scene, the in-camera metering tries to find the proper white balance and of course... cannot.

Example:

The tea cup/saucer and shells in this picture are actually white.

You can adjust the white balance (Manual).

Or - as shown. You can adjust your subject into a greyscale image later in Photoshop.

The result... one of the best pictures I took. (cropped of course).

Backlit Subjects

By adjusting your exposure, you force the camera to overexpose the highlights (backlit area) but properly expose your subject... the important portion of the picture anyways.


This would be a good example of trying to take a picture with a strong backlight.




By adjusting the Exposure value... we have fixed the problem of the dark subject.

The first picture was taken with a 1/500 sec exposure (very fast) .
This picture was taken with a 1/30 sec exposure. So 16 X the exposure.




Now you can crop out the overexposed portion of the picture... and your subject looks pretty good!

Studio Work

One main concept we looked at today was how adjusting your camera up and down stops affects your picture. This is a screenshot of my desktop with the 5 images required. The second one down on the left would have been the most accurate setting. 9596

Picture	Aperture	Iso	Exp	White	Meter	Focal Length
9595	4.5	200	1/100	Auto	Matrix	47.8
9596	4.5	200	1/60	Auto	Matrix	47.8
9597	4.5	200	1/25	Auto	Matrix	47.8
9598	4.5	200	1/200	Auto	Matrix	47.8
9599	4.5	200	1/500	Auto	Matrix	47.8

Here is the best picture... cropped of course. (Remember that these files are all compressed etc for the web)

The Pictures Continue

Here are another batch of pictures. It's been tough to get in some time for pictures as the weather has not been co-operative. On a positive note, we are close to setting a record for rainfall.

Early morning light. A corner of my house.











A little park by my house. A small break in the rain allowed me to run out and take this picture.


Taken in early morning light, after 25 days of rain. Tough to get a good depth of field with this subject.





Who says beer makes a bad subject?

DSCP200 - I love this camera

Using the built in macro function.






Taken on a cloudy day, needed a 1/3 exposure time, you get the flowing effect of the water.