MASSEY MAPLE TREE
I’m learning a couple of things while going over the shots taken at the forest.
Firstly, I can’t wait until I get my new lenses. The Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 is on it’s way and probably would have been a better lens to play around with when shooting there. Secondly, I should have pulled out the kit, Nikkor 18-70mm, lens to see the results with that.
Instead I spent most of that afternoon just snapping away with the 50mm. Which I suppose isn’t that bad, but I should have brought the aperture settings to range between from f/6-f/8. I would have gotten images greater areas of focus.
At f/1.4 there was only a small sliver of the image in focus. Ah well, this is how you learn. I’m going to have go back and experiment some more. Still, this shot came out ok, I thought
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nuvAE says:
that’s a pretty good idea ... hmmm ... there are a lot of terms but I’ll see what i can put together, but until then I’ll keep it in mind to explain things better.
nuvAE says:
Oh ....
And setting the camera with smaller aperture (ie. f/6 - f/8) would mean less light will be come through the lens. This in turn would create a greater depth of field ... more of the picture would be in focus.
With the aperture on the camera set at f/1.4, i was letting in a lot of light ... too much actually ... and creating a shallow depth of field .. meaning less of the image is in focus.
So, to make the Tree picture better I should have used a smaller aperture (f/6 - f/8) and compensated for less light by slowing down the shutter speed. If i can’t get light in through the lens aperture, I can at least expose the the shot longer to compensate…
i hope that’s better ....
I hope
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EXIF DATA |
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| Camera | :: | Nikon D70 |
| Lens | :: | NIKKOR 50MM F/1.4 D |
| Capture Date/Time | :: | May 23, 2005 :: 4:17pm |
| Exposure Program | :: | Manual |
| Exposure Time | :: | 1/500 sec |
| Aperture | :: | f/1.4 |
| Focal Length | :: | 50mm |
| Flash | :: | No |
| Metering Mode | :: | Center-weighted average |
| Exposure Bias | :: | 0.00 |
| Image Quality | :: | RAW |
| Focal Length in 35mm Film | :: | 75mm |
| ISO | :: | 200 |
| Cropped | :: | No |
How about a glossary in here? Most of us readers, okay I will only speak for myself, I do not understand why f/6-f/8 would have been better.