So today I put the camera in AV mode and played around with the shutter speed. (Am I getting these terms right? I know I messed them up yesterday.) So this picture was taken with a shutter speed of 1/320, an F-stop of 6.3 and an ISO of 800. It was taken with morning defused light and no flash. It was also taken with my 50 mm lens.
I followed Whitman's lead on interpreting the theme for today.
This was so clever! I had also thought of doing leaves as pages, but this is inspired!
ReplyDeleteGreat focus, and so, so, clever.
Your camera, in deciding on what makes a proper exposure, is looking to average the scene out to be a light gray (18% gray.) In this case, I think the page is actually lighter than that, but the camera doesn't know this, so it ends up underexposed. In shooting in a semi-automatic mode, like Av, you can tell the camera the subject is either darker or lighter than 18% by using exposure compensation. I would like to see what the picture would look like with exposure compensation at +2/3.
Note on your ISO. The xsi shows noise (the digital version of grain) pretty easily. If you have enough light, I wouldn't use ISO above 200 unless you need to use higher for lower light conditions. It's a constant battle to get the right settings for the best picture in the conditions you have. In this instance, you have a really fast shutter speed, a fairly closed aperture (for that lens) and a high ISO. You have enough light that you could slow down your shutter speed to get enough light for a lower ISO, or open up your aperture to have a lower ISO.
Just something to keep in mind long term. I hope I'm being somewhat coherent, and possibly useful.
Kara
Love your interpretation! Great photo. Kara, you are great at critiquing, though I don't even understand all the things you say yet! This is going to be very helpful to me. :)
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