Fall color

[darkstar]

Ok ,i think i got alittle better check these out .
Nearly same lighting but used tripod haha 5 gallon bucket.

I know the last one is to dark but thats todays work , you can see the vertical lines on the boulder.They were giant poison ivy.
Ive been cleaning that boulder and devining it since early .
Nasty job.

 

[darkstar]

Tiba posed up but i didnt do to good with the shot.

 

[Bounce]

VERY nice shots. I've never seen fall color like that before. Mostly evergreens here.

 

[sotc]

Aren't you at ~2000 feet, willie?

Our fall color is still in, but fading with the rain...and time....

valley floors 1500, goes up from there

 

[rbtree]

Nice Jer!!

i checked up on your camera (from the embedded exif data) It is nice camera, similar to the Canon G5 of 4-5 years ago.It has fullmanual controls.

So, to bring the tomato more into focus, you'll want as wide angle as possible, which is 35mm (equivilent to a 35mm SLR full frame camet's ra) wheich gives the most depth of field, and the smallest f/stop, which is probably only f/8 (35mm camera lenses go to f/22 or even 32, which is tiny and provides a lot more depth--meaning the amount of the photo that is in sharp focus.

Next, you'll need to find the appx middle of the focus zone. To do that, focus on some part of the image that is about halfway from the far part of the scene to the tomater......

you could also use the camera's manual focus mode if it has one....On my little cameras, they're rather clunky.....

To darken the bright rock, you'd have to meter on it, which would darken the rest of the image. The tonal range in that image is probably beyond digital's capability, which is similar to slide film, and much less than print film.

Alternatively, you can use a photo editor, and attempt to darken the rock while keeping some of the shadow detail. Small improvements can be made by lessening the contrast, with editors like Picasa. Large gains can be made with a full featured editor like Photoshop.

As far as the blur goes, I can't tell how sharp those low rez images are, though they seem fine. But, in low light, you'll have a slow shutter speed, which means both subject movement and camera movement will affect sharpness.

A loose rule of thumb is that, for a 50 mm lens, (about what the eye sees) 1/50th of a second will result in a sharp image, if the camera is held steady. 200 mm requires 1/200th second. Your camera's (35 mm equivalent) range is 35-140mm....So, for low light, use a higher ISO, and a tripod, and your camera's shutter delay setting, which is prolly 2 and 10 seconds....

I mentioned ISO. With small camera sensors, and the older ones, higher ISO settings than 200 result in pretty noisy images, so are best avoided.

Glad you're getting the phto bug and having fun! Next, you'll be wanting an SLR!!

 

[rbtree]

valley floors 1500, goes up from there

Thouht so..

ain'tchoo the real mountain man!!

 

[sotc]

haha 1500 is low compared to some here

 

[darkstar]

Man my pics this evening were shite .
It was so cloudy. I tried everything.
Look at umm in the bouldering armed thread.
Pitaful

 

[Paul B]

thanks for the tips Roger.

 

[rbtree]

You're mighty welcome, Paul....excellent shots by the way, good framing, composition, sharpness, etc....Which cam do you have, a 30D?

In your last shots, are those yellow trees zelkovas?

 

[darkstar]

Thank's for the tips Roger big time.
Im thinking about a class at local night school.
But you have given me enough to work on for a good bit ehh?
Ill keep it up and get a side site going so i wont bore you all and eat up band width to much.
Preeciate it
I got some questions but let me play round then ill ask tomorrow ...
Jer

 

[Paul B]

You're mighty welcome, Paul....excellent shots by the way, good framing, composition, sharpness, etc....Which cam do you have, a 30D?

In your last shots, are those yellow trees zelkovas?

Negative, Olympus SP-510UZ, not fancy at all and in fact a POS in low light. But hey, sometimes we get lucky eh? I have a nursery supplier, she has a diploma or something in photography, she once explained using the grid to frame a shot, sorta like the tic tac toe board.
Also I tried each shot in about four different lighting settings on the camera as well as different shutterspeeds (I found the slower speeds got the most vibrant color but were hard to get clarity due to shaky hands), some came out wack but some came out nicely colored.

The yellow trees are Cercidiphyllum japonicum if I remember right, and the red ones are Acer rubrum or Acer palmatum. There were also some Quercus palustris and Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm'. I dont honestly know wht the white flowered perennial is.

 

[darkstar]

My sister has that exact camera, or atleast she says she does .
Looks the same .
Its awesome.
She was just ona cruise and her pics were way better than the cruise's photographer.She's always messing with it .
Im kinda stoked at seeing what you guys do .
Thinking what i might can get as i learn.
This austrian fellow was just here at my place. Look at this crazy stuff.
hes a climbing photo pro.
http://climbing.tecdogs.at/

 

[rbtree]

Negative, Olympus SP-510UZ, not fancy at all and in fact a POS in low light. But hey, sometimes we get lucky eh? I have a nursery supplier, she has a diploma or something in photography, she once explained using the grid to frame a shot, sorta like the tic tac toe board.
Also I tried each shot in about four different lighting settings on the camera as well as different shutterspeeds (I found the slower speeds got the most vibrant color but were hard to get clarity due to shaky hands), some came out wack but some came out nicely colored.

The yellow trees are Cercidiphyllum japonicum if I remember right, and the red ones are Acer rubrum or Acer palmatum. There were also some Quercus palustris and Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm'. I dont honestly know wht the white flowered perennial is.

ahh, perhaps it was another Fraser Valley fella, Gord, that I met in Victoria that had a Canon SLR....

Thanks....I love redbuds and katsuras...I jsut thought the leaf and growth pattern looked like zelkova....There's few of them around, so I don't even know how they color in fall..

 

[rbtree]

This austrian fellow was just here at my place. Look at this crazy stuff.
hes a climbing photo pro.
http://climbing.tecdogs.at/

yowsa!!!

 

[rbtree]

Well, I faked some "fall color" tonight. Finished pruning a way cool 7 foot tall x 12 foot wide laceleaf maple, in the dark, prolly worth $10-12 k (after I was dun with it anyhoo) :roll:

Already had my p/u lights on to help me see to finish. Set the camera on a garbage can, set it to 2 second delay, and started firing..Interestingly enuf, I like these three the best, and they were shot after my flash batteries went dead.

Is that the moon, or green cheese?

I like this effect!! Handheld, and zoomed for the second half of a 2 second exposure.

 

[rbtree]

From earlier today, here's a liriodendron on fire! Tulip tree, tulip poplar......yellow poplar....whateva, it's awesome!

I played with the color here, made it warmer than it really is....

 

[rbtree]

And this grand red oak....it's 85 feet wide, at least.
A friend, now out of biz, pruned it about 8 years ago. I spotted it today, and the tulip. Gonna try to hustle up some work on both--two different yards.

 

[Paul B]

nice shots on the Tulip tree Roger, the sidelighting on the trunk is sweet.

 

[darkstar]

WOW
I really like the crazy head light effect.
That looks so cool.
I got to take some more for yall today of the same back grounds , i thought it was peak the other day but im looking out and its even more brilliant today.