More and better pictures
So once I had some daylight to work with, I went out into the backyard. My first attempt at a picture was this orange, which was backlit:
Obviously not right. But a little RTFM later, and a few shots to try different metering and exposure compensation settings, and I got this one:
Wish it had occurred to me to try learning to use a fill flash; I might have been able to get an orange orange AND a blue sky. Oh, well...that's for another day.
While I was experimenting I also took these:
Hibiscus, I think...
Knowing as I do what the whole backyard looks like, I have to say that a key advantage of an SLR is that it gives you the option of a longer lens. That lets you take a picture that crops away all of the "un-beautiful" bits.
When the adapter for my Minolta lenses shows up I'll have some more experiments to share. It should allow me to take some pictures that I can't with the kit lenses. For example, in low-light situations, I'd turn to the fixed "normal" lens that came with my film SLR. It is a 58mm f1.4. My kit lens is f4.4 at that focal length--a very large difference in exposure--and on this camera 58mm is a moderate telephoto (like a portrait lens).
Posted at 04:32PM Jun 21, 2008 by AceOfSpuds in Photography |