Sunday, June 21, 2009

Ann - Rosa

1/125, F8, ISO100, levels adjusted, sharpened
Rosa with her alpenhorn.

4 comments:

Julie said...

I have just been processing a post for tomorrow which is me experimenting. Its good that you post this now. I might put mine up this morning instead of tomorrow for a direct comparison of problems.

There is something not quite right about your stats, Ann. Here is how my thinking goes. If you have an ISO=100 then it is a bright sunny day and you are closing down the light for this reason. Yet you only have the aperture set to F8 whereas I would think it might be better at F11 or even more for an ISO=100. Because Rosa is not doing anything other than looking at you take the photo, it is not necessary to have the s/s set as high as 1/125. So: as my tendency is to choose the aperture for the conditions (or the s/s if action needs to be frozen)then let's settle on F8. I would then have set the ISO=200 and decreased the s/s to something like 1/60. All this would have let a lot more light in and decreased the need for post-processing.

What do you think?

I will post mine now and would welcome your critique of it.

Ann said...

I think I opted for F8 because I wanted to make sure I got her alpenhorn. I really wanted the whole thing but didn't have the lens with me to do that so I ended up settling for this composition which I like but I think with this composition I should have opened the aperture and blurred the background a little. 1/125 is the setting the camera gave me as correct. I suspect I metered off the wrong area, figuring out where to meter is something I'm having a lot of trouble with. I'm going to go back to evaluative metering instead of centre weighted and see if it makes a difference.

This one also looks darker on screen than it actually is.

Julie said...

How do you mean metering? Point at grey and that is the s/s for the chosen aperture?

I think I have to do more reading as I shoot ... I read my last manual as I trained from London to Avignon ... that's the problem!! Need foreign climes ...

Ann said...

Its what part of the scene the light meter in your camera (the line with the divisions (-2, -1, 0, 1, 2) uses to determine what it thinks is the correct setting for that scene. What it is using to give you the 0 reading. I'm shooting when the camera says its correct but its coming out dark so I suspect I'm metering on the wrong place. I've been using centre weighted (which metres off a smaller area) but am going to see what the camera does when I use evaluative which takes some kind of an average of the whole scene. I find this area really difficult to get right.

Any thoughts, Peter?