Sue DOWN THE DRAIN

There were lots of interesting organic things to photograph, but I thought this was different. The light was going down the drain.

I shot it with my telephoto lens, shutter speed 1/200, f4.5, focal length 55mm, ISO 200 . I used a flash to fill the darker parts.

Jason Myers

I used 1/640sec. exposure at 200mm. I had my EC set at 0.67 step to attempt to correct for the backlight. I had the default of "pattern" metering and didn't get the chance to try to change it to spot before the bird left.

The Eagle

Eagle Landing

Mighty Eagle

Graceful Flight

The Eagle

End of Flight

Eagle

The Eagle Has Landed

AnnMarie - Bee Season

I shot a lot of bee photos this week and played with several different settings - this one was my favorite - f 5.6 at 1/125, ISO 400 with evaluative metering.

Donna

Settings: f/5.6, 1/320 sec, ISO 100
I practiced using spot and partial metering. This picture was taken using partial metering. Not a picture I will keep however a good practice pic.

Amy - Sunset with Polly

Photo settings:
Aperture Priority f/5.6, 1/250 sec, ISO 200, 38 mm, Nikon D90

For metering in this photo, I used Center Weighted Average. I played around with my meter and exposures and this seemed to work best with the backlight/sidelight that was happening at sunset.

Photo taken on my dock on Long Lake...subject is my dog, Polly, who is very difficult to shoot. :)

Sara W- Sunrise

Settings- Partial Metering, f/stop 25, ISO 320, at 150MM. The histogram on this one had some clipping in the darker tones, big surprise! I actually was going for the silhouette of the trees in the foreground. Over all I really like the contrast of the dark & light. I took several shots of the same thing while playing with the metering and I think this one turned out best.

Chuck "Peeking Through"

I wanted to find a shot where I could spot meter through a dark foreground, and came across this vantage of the Capitol though the trees in Priest Point Park.  For this shot, I used f/11, 1/1000s, ISO-400, and spot metering.

Arwyn - Playing with light

Aperture priority, f/5.6, ISO 100, partial metering, exposure -1/3.  I was trying to get a shot that highlighted the flowers against the blue sky, but there was just too much light.  I like that I was able to get the flowers at a decent exposure - the first few shots were way too dark - and I love the way the light plays through the leaves (though now that I've shrunk the photo down, it's not as dramatic).  Although I'm still not overly happy with this shot, I was bracketing when taking this photo, so if you combined this picture with those, it would actually be quite nice. This is where Photoshop would definitely come in handy!

Linda- Tulips

OK, as usual, I put off taking photos till the evening before it's due. I was too tired to look around and find anything original to photograph, so I pointed the camera at the slightly late-blooming tulips in my backyard. Sorry.... more tulip pictures ......... SO last month!

I put my Nikon D90 on a tripod and remembered to set my white balance halfway through. It made a LOT of difference! The background with WB set on AUTO was blue-ish and set on CLOUDY made the background nice and green.

I used Aperture priority f/5.6, 1.6 seconds, ISO 200 shot at 150mm.

I did my metering trials and the winner was the matrix (full image) metering. The photo just looked more pleasing and bright.

Patrick - Two Shapes

These are two ceramic figurines that are in a bay window. In the past they have always photographed very dark because of the back lighting. I tried several variations and it was either center-weighted or spot metering that got a better exposure for the figures.

But foliage and a light grey deck in the background came out lighter than I wanted. I started to play with filters and painting in transparent layers to darken those areas. I also flipped the figures and turned them since the angle of the photo made them seem off balance. I think I eventually "Inverted" the photo which cause the middle background to darken.

To get an effect I was more interested in I layered in an unrelated photo (the basin of the water fountain I used last week - solarized and recolored). I played with the opacity of how much the second photo would show through. The final result was a little too gold, so I added a green filter, but erased it from the figures themselves.

While I love looking at more straightforward photos, I'm finding I'm not satisfied with my own work until it is (in an artistic sense) "destroyed" or undone to a certain extent. I still want to see what the subject is, but through layers of intended and accidental transparencies (?) - "filters". Then I'm happy.

Butterfly in Dahlia Garden....

Aperture Mode

Subject at 560mm with focal length @ 105mm

Shutter 1/250 @ f/5.6, ISO 100, Exposure 0 EV

Meter Mode: Center Weighted

I tried capturing "motion" using speed mode but they didn't turn out as well. I used slow shutter speeds hoping to show "movement". In retrospect I should've experimented with faster shutter speeds and focused on clarity rather than motion.

I liked the way the aperture mode caught the detail of the butterfly, showing the antenna and legs. I also liked the "macro" effect....showing the small twigs in comparison to the butterfly.

Sue The Kiss

It was gray and overcast Sunday morning. I shot this with my telephoto lens, shutter speed 1/125, F5.6, ISO 400, Focal legngth 55 mm and used spot metering.

Number 1

Rowing on Charles River