Friday 18 April 2008

Sunset time photos

The camera is in dock for up to 3 weeks. The lens cap fits on to a little ring round the lens cap. This ring should be firmly fixed. Somehow it has worked loose, and two days ago when I was out photographing in the setting-sun light this ringy thing went AWOL. So the camera has returned to its maker to be fixed (is there a sermon here?). Meanwhile, except for the first photograph, here are some results of that unfortunate expedition.
This is an earlier study in Pink - in getting the right exposure for the deep pink of the g.l.'s Tote, or Scrapbooking bag, a marvellous invention that enables the serious Scrapbooker to have very many tools required at hand. I like the contrasts of the whites and yellow, too.
Evie's influence is shown here because I first took some conventional distance shots, but she's always saying,'Get close-up' and I thought the lamplight made it all the more interesting.
This is a first time use of the Wide-angle facility. The camera playback shows 2 places where it is over-exposed. Can you work out where these are?
The sun was behind me here, all but a small fraction of it hidden behind a house, its light striking the leaves horizontally.
An attempt at mystery! Who's lurking behind the bush, watching the bridge for whoever and whatever?? Agreeably the setting is right, putting the bridge in focus while the nearer bush is slightly out, though I am not quite sure how I managed it!

This pretty little water feature is part of the New River Walk setting of most of these photographs. I did a short movie of it as well which looks clearer than this.
Back home I caught this unusual view of Berry. He is normally to be found high up - on couch, chair, bed, table, box, not on the floor, even if it is by the warm radiator. Soon afterwards he did go to the couch. This dark photo is on Auto ISO 800. I tried manual lighter touches but could not get anything satisfactory. The leaves shot is on Auto ISO 80, but the rest are all on manual at ISO 100.
Can anyone suggest why these pictures do not respond to the click that is supposed to enlarge them?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What is it behind the bush? Is it the heron or just another smaller bird? thanks for the sermon idea - I may well use it for the old folks next week!