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Pictures

I'm trying to distract myself from the computer woes...these are the pictures I was trying to upload yesterday when the OS bit the dust. Click on the images to see them bigger, though not in their full 6 megapixel glory...I doubt I have enough readers to eat up too much of Pixy's bandwidth, but I don't want to be too obnoxious.

I took all these with good old fashioned manual settings and manual focusing, and they are unretouched by Photoshop. (Photoshop, of course, is on the dead computer.) I did crop and resize.

What I didn't do is write down the settings (I figured that would be part of that Exif code, but I'm not sure how to find that except in Photoshop). I took this on the kitchen counter using ambient light; I think it was about 1/60 and f4. That's as open an aperture as I get with the lens that came with the camera...I'm not sure if that equates exactly to f4 on a regular SLR or not. (I have ordered a book so that I can learn this stuff.)

Here is where I relearn the concept of backlighting.

So I moved to the dining room where I could use the afternoon light but find a subject that wasn't backlit. I still had to keep the aperture wide open, which gave me a shallow depth of field. I was focused on the bottle with the black and gold foil (the one in the center...I need to learn how to use the camera before I start getting clever with the composition) and everything else blurs. Actually, I often use a very shallow depth of field on purpose, and I sort of like how this came out.

And not because it's alcohol.

Posted by Nic at March 19, 2006 02:30 PM | TrackBack