Thursday, September 11, 2008
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- super crackly fire
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- loud.
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- 50mm, 1/200", f/16, ISO-20050mm, 1/30", f/5.6, ISO...
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3 comments:
Points for creativity-- the fry in the rice definitely fits the theme, and your dorm room wall is definitely unique.
However, all of these pictures lack interest for several reasons. First, it looks like you used full-frame automatic light metering, which has caused your exposure to come out very neutral and grey looking. You could have fixed this by using spot metering (metered on one of the items on the wall, not the wall itself) or setting your exposure manually.
Second, the compositions of these photos lack effort, making for very flat photos. Your dorm room wall was tricky subject matter due to all of the white space, but the eye-level angle and wide crop doesn't help this. I would have cropped in to eliminate the corner of the room showing, and I would have stood directly in front of the wall, closer and crouched down, looking up at the wall to get more of the lamp and desk items in the foreground for added interest.
As for the fried rice, it may have been a much more visually pleasing shot if you had taken it from the side looking at the bowl from a profile angle with some vibrant colors in the background.
I do like the photo concepts though, and I think you were probably one of the few who actually went out and took pictures after receiving the assignment rather than digging through your photo library, which is worth major points right there.
CHRIS: Hey Grummer, I had a quick question: you were talking about how I should've used spot metering in one of my pictures. I (think) I know where that is on my camera and I think I know how to adjust it, but I don't know what changing it does. What effect does it produce?
GRUMMER: Spot metering is not something you adjust-- it's just the way your camera will try to calculate the proper exposure if you are NOT using full manual mode (which you should be soon). Spot metering means that your camera only looks at the center point of the frame to gauge the amount of light in the image, as opposed to evaluative metering or center-weighted, which measure the amount of light across the entire frame. If you were taking a picture of a scene with an exactly even amount of light and dark areas, it wouldn't be a problem, but because that never happens, you usually get the best results if you go through the extra trouble of using spot metering to find your sweet spot of exposure bliss. You do this by pointing the camera so that the center of the frame is on something that you want to be the middle 50% of your exposure range, like someone's face or generally whatever your subject is. Then just press your exposure lock button (usually represented by a star or * symbol) to lock in that exposure level. Now you have about five seconds or so to properly frame and focus your image the way you want it, and you can go ahead and shoot the picture! I hope this helps! I'll post this to the blog so everyone can see but maybe we'll go over it in the club on Thursday.
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