Week in LeHave

I found it hard to sort out best of from all the ones I took. Ones worth posting. Because I was fitting photography in around where I could, on walks to things, on drives to things, I didn't do a lot of adjusting. I shot, and looked later, so there were very few great images in what I got. Which begs the question should I post middling images with good parts? I debated it, and then decided since I'm posting it largely for my own interest, rather than viewership, I'd post what I wanted to, and not worry about diminishing quality. The time to worry about that is when taking the next batch. 

Best:

Shore:

 It was acutally this bizarre blue colour. No filters or editing, just wierd wierd sky.

 I had a bunch with that stupid tree ruining my shot. Had I been paying attention, I would have gone down and removed it.

 This one is where I learned it wasn't my aperture setting messing me up before, because this was as high as it goes, but relative depth of field. This would have been a much better shot from the other side of the road. The out of focus background would have been a softer out of focus, rather than a 'hey look at me, I'm out of focus.'

Ships: 

Other: 

  The things you see in downtown ns...

 I think a polarizing filter would have cured most of what ails that one.

Road to Grammies II

Today was an exercise in spray and pray. I hung out of the backseat window, shutter speed high and snapped what might work. I was never quite in the same place by the time the shutter went off. Things that I missed today, were the bunny hopping along the driveway near the car, and the dog leaping out of the the barely open window, back legs catching slightly, and running around the brush trying to catch his own dinner.

Road to Grammies I

Today I was taking full enjoyment of the liberty of time I have. I was on my way out, with then expecting me at some point, and so when I felt the urge to pull over and snap photos, I did. The only problem is I like the look of everything, and this a beautiful province. 

Best:

Others:

 About 18 feet up the road from this one, I had a pheasant walking slowly across. I stopped, to pull my camera back out, and it flew up, over four feet and into a field before I had time.

On the way home after this, there was a rainbow across the fields.  I also missed a shot of a low flying plane, next to my grandparents house, with a tree cropping up the left side of the feild. Too slow.

Lessons:
I need to remember even when rushing because I'm at the side of a road, to check my view screen to balance my exposure. The camera makes some weird decisions when I trust it. Also, the hurried approach isn't great, because the first six ways I look at a scene are typical and boring. Usually around snap 8, I've done enough looking around and thinking that I get something worth taking.

This was the best of series of shots that had a cool concept, terrible execution. I am so enraptured with depth of field that I keep cutting it too shallow, and these end up less giving you a sense of depth, and more making you squint at them.

I really need to have my camera cleaned.

Rawdon Strawberry Social

Best shot:

 I love how cool the shadows look.

 These two are learning shots. Below is what my camera thought I wanted as an exposure on the aperture priority mode. Above is what I actually wanted. Exposure bracketing chews card space, but is worth practicing.

This was the winner of the group of photos that I liked, but they weren't actually good photos, so I tried B&W-ing them to see if they got better. Mostly, they didn't. This one had been on the edge of not sucking enough, that I think it did. Such a lovely day for hay-bales, and I ran out of CF room.

This one is not a good photo. This one is an answer to my question: is it possible to go too shallow in flower photography. On my tiny view screen, I couldn't tell why the red was blown out, not matter how I adjusted the exposure up and down for brightness. When I saw it on my screen, it was pretty darn obvious. Ugh.