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Showing posts with label low light. Show all posts
Showing posts with label low light. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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Monday, October 25, 2010
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
A fellow amateur photographer friend of mine has taken some absolutely awesome pictures of the moon. Inspired by him, I went out the other night when the moon was almost full and attempted to take some moon pictures myself. It's definitely a LOT harder than it looks!
I ended up shooting in full manual mode because I had to keep adjusting different things so that the pictures weren't way too dark or entirely blown out.
... And then one of the legs of my tripod broke off right where it joins the base where the camera sits! To be honest, the tripod wasn't doing me much good because I couldn't get it to tighten and hold my camera at the correct angle anyway!
At any rate, I managed to get a couple of semi decent pictures. I suppose they're not too bad for my first attempt. They give a baseline for future reference, right?
The moon was behind the clouds on this one, but I thought the lighting was pretty cool.
I ended up shooting in full manual mode because I had to keep adjusting different things so that the pictures weren't way too dark or entirely blown out.
... And then one of the legs of my tripod broke off right where it joins the base where the camera sits! To be honest, the tripod wasn't doing me much good because I couldn't get it to tighten and hold my camera at the correct angle anyway!
At any rate, I managed to get a couple of semi decent pictures. I suppose they're not too bad for my first attempt. They give a baseline for future reference, right?
The moon was behind the clouds on this one, but I thought the lighting was pretty cool.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Week 2 Photography Class Assignments
I'm so sorry for the extended absence. This past week has just been extremely busy, and I just haven't had time to blog. In fact, I finally submitted my photos for my photography class assignments tonight, too.
This week our photography class focused on shutter speed. I'm actually pretty proud of myself because I shot 2 of the 5 photos for the class using completely manual settings. They may not be spectacular, but I'm especially proud that I was able to adjust the shutter speed and ISO so that the lighting wasn't too bad.
Here are all my shots SOOC (with the exception of the "watermark").
Moving Water
f5, 1/320, ISO 3200 (Shot completely manually)
f5, 1/10, ISO 100 (Shot completely manually)
Daylight action taken at slow shutter speed to show motion
1/30
Low light action taken at slow shutter speed to show motion
I actually shot this at night on a tripod with a 15 second exposure for the shutter speed.
"Shoot Where You Are"
f4.5, 1/200, ISO 3200 (Shot completely manually)
I spent more time this week taking pictures in my bathrooms than ever before, trying to catch drops of water on "film" (How do you change that saying for digital cameras? "On memory card???" Doesn't have the same ring to it.) and adjusting my camera settings so that the lighting wasn't too dark. All in the name of photography!
This week our photography class focused on shutter speed. I'm actually pretty proud of myself because I shot 2 of the 5 photos for the class using completely manual settings. They may not be spectacular, but I'm especially proud that I was able to adjust the shutter speed and ISO so that the lighting wasn't too bad.
Here are all my shots SOOC (with the exception of the "watermark").
f5, 1/320, ISO 3200 (Shot completely manually)
f5, 1/10, ISO 100 (Shot completely manually)
Daylight action taken at slow shutter speed to show motion
1/30
Low light action taken at slow shutter speed to show motion
I actually shot this at night on a tripod with a 15 second exposure for the shutter speed.
"Shoot Where You Are"
f4.5, 1/200, ISO 3200 (Shot completely manually)
I spent more time this week taking pictures in my bathrooms than ever before, trying to catch drops of water on "film" (How do you change that saying for digital cameras? "On memory card???" Doesn't have the same ring to it.) and adjusting my camera settings so that the lighting wasn't too dark. All in the name of photography!
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