Photography Basics
LVS
Instructor: Al Mierau
May, 2009
R. Joanne Johnson
Week 5
The Photos for Week 5
Macro and Low light
I love macro shooting and probably push the envelope for getting close to a subject. I am amazed at some of the details I don't see, when looking at a scene, that are captured with a macro shot. The fuzziness of fabric, the insect inside a flower, the world reflected in the orb of a dewdrop, the pollen on a bee's legs and the fuzziness of its body are things that make me say 'Wow!' when I look at my macro photos on the computer.
My camera has 2 settings for Macro:
- Auto Macro, 20 to 80cm (0.7 to 2.6 feet)
- Super Macro, 5cm (2 inches) from subject
Holding the button down allows the camera to really clear up the image in Macro mode and gives a good DOF.
I rejected most of my night time shots because the colors were rather distorted and sometimes the scene was with a yellow overcast. I did experiment with Exposure Compensation and found it helpful with color correction.
The bee at the left was photographed in 2004. It is probably one of my lucky shots that the flower and bee were centered, the bee in a good position to see its details.
Clicking the thumbnail will open a larger photo in a new sindow.
Camera Discoveries
I found that my camera has a framing mode which provides the Rule of Thirds. I like it and will use it. Also discovered for more HD photo work...Auto Bracket which will shoot the same subject/scene with variations in exposure which I can set up.
The photos (all EXIF data on slides pages):
Week 5
- My watch
- A very small rabbit figurine, 3 inches in length and 2 inches at its tallest place
- A necklace with focus on the lion
- The necklace again, on a piece of quilted fabric
- Very noisy low light shot
- Very yellow cast low light photo
- A web in the grass which collected drops of water some of which are reflecting and distorting its surroundings...this was a nice surprise for me!
- A bee on the clover...that must be a bundle of pollen he has collected at his back legs
- His fuzziness, see through wings and legs wrapped around a stalk of grass are exciting to me!
- Yellow zinnia details...the actual photo shows them more clearly
- Red zinnia details...the compression has changed its color a bit
- Pansey
- Clover bloom with good DOF
- Daddy Longlegs
