Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Peter 026 - Graham



Graham is a retired farmer and just loves to fish. Playing with palm trees a few half days a week, keeps his hands dirty he reckons, although he says you wouldn't want to be doing it to feed a family.

Sunday morning coffee.

On the face of it, this is just a picture of a bloke snapped leaning against his truck, no tricks, but it's one I quite like. Another lesson for me perhaps?

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Exposure Time : 1/320
F Number : 5.6
Exposure Program : Aperture-priority AE
ISO : 200
Metering Mode : Multi-segment
Flash : No Flash
Focal Length : 105.0mm
Focal Length In 35mm Format : 157

11 comments:

Julie said...

This is the style of context portrait that I would kill to come up with ... I like the stamp of the chap too.

Ann said...

I really like this one as well. Another great character. Did you selectively blur out the background in post processing or did you take it that way?

bitingmidge said...

Despite my waffling on about post processing on other people's shots, I don't do that sort of thing on my own! :-)

This one is straight from the camera, (sharpened a little) with a relatively shallow depth of field.

Julie said...

Okay ... I am not afraid to speak dumb ...

On my Sydney Eye site, I have an image about a one-eared cat that has a blurred background.

How did I do that? I have tried to reproduce that sort of effect to no avail ... did I use P ... I dont think so ... Did I use Av ... I dont think so ... Pierre?? what did I do to get that blurred background?

Ann said...

This is the kind of thing I'm trying to understand as well. I know it blurs out more the longer the zoom so I guess its something to do with depth of field but this is an area I'm still trying to come to terms with. I've tried using depth of field preview but I can't figure out what its showing me.

bitingmidge said...

Depth of field can be as complicated or as simple as you want it to be.

Have a look here http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html
for a calculator which might explain what's going on, if you can get the exif data for your shot it will explain it I think.

My guess is that you shot in P, that the camera guessed you were focussing on the cat, but the background light was dim, so it ended up being something like 100 / F4.5? How close was I?

Julie said...

Where do I find the exif data? When Blogger had their own photo albums they used to display that as you loaded the photos. But now they want you to do it all via the other things they own like Flickr etc.

I went looking last night but zilch ...

Julie said...

I am doing a 2 * Saturday course in March (6 hours each day) on how to use a manual camera (digital or film). There is a book he recommends too ... I also read Digitial Photography school each week. But it takes a bit to understand it all ...

bitingmidge said...

There's only so much you can get from book learnin', but after doing something like this exercise it's amazing how many things just fall into place when you see it demonstrated.

Here's a free utility that works in Internet Explorer and Firefox if you want to examine exif data on any photo in your browser:

http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/

Ann said...

If you upload photos to Blogger from your hard drive it automatically saves them in an album on Picassa which can be accessed from the Dashboard (link in middle colum at the bottom). If you open the photo in Picassa there is shooting info on the right hand side of the screen.

Damn, I'm blocked from downloading that program at work. Will put on my home pc this weekend. Digital Photography School looks interesting, have subscribed to the newsletter.

Joan Elizabeth said...

Bewdy mate.