What I did -Noticed a road/path on the ‘off river’ side of the trail that had wonderful soft even light and had a ditch filled with autumn leaves and had a trickle of water flowing down the hill through the leaves. -Further noticed nobody else had seemed to notice, so thought I’d see if I could find a shot. Oh look, what a pretty leaf! -Played with some different shutter speeds, but there was so little water and such a slow ripple there really wasn't a great deal of difference in effect. -Thought about doing something in the ditch to enhance flow, but then got lazy and didn’t.
What I like -the vivid colors and uniqueness of the leaf -the shadows on the leaf caused by the ripple of water
What I would change -given this is supposed to be a 'water' shot, I probably should want clearer evidence of water (but I don't really). -the exposure was less than perfect on this image(darn, dumb camera!). The histogram indicated a bit of probable clipping of both highlight and shadow detail - I did some clean-up of this image on both ends of the histogram scale in PhotoShop.
Camera Settings Mode – Shutter Priority Shutter Speed – 1/25 sec Aperature – f/9 (chosen by camera) ISO – 100 (chosen by camera) Focal Length – 40 mm Camera – Canon 50D White Balance – either Cloudy or Shade Location – ditch along a side road/path that intersected with park trail
What I did
ReplyDelete-Noticed a road/path on the ‘off river’ side of the trail that had wonderful soft even light and had a ditch filled with autumn leaves and had a trickle of water flowing down the hill through the leaves.
-Further noticed nobody else had seemed to notice, so thought I’d see if I could find a shot. Oh look, what a pretty leaf!
-Played with some different shutter speeds, but there was so little water and such a slow ripple there really wasn't a great deal of difference in effect.
-Thought about doing something in the ditch to enhance flow, but then got lazy and didn’t.
What I like
-the vivid colors and uniqueness of the leaf
-the shadows on the leaf caused by the ripple of water
What I would change
-given this is supposed to be a 'water' shot, I probably should want clearer evidence of water (but I don't really).
-the exposure was less than perfect on this image(darn, dumb camera!). The histogram indicated a bit of probable clipping of both highlight and shadow detail - I did some clean-up of this image on both ends of the histogram scale in PhotoShop.
Camera Settings
Mode – Shutter Priority
Shutter Speed – 1/25 sec
Aperature – f/9 (chosen by camera)
ISO – 100 (chosen by camera)
Focal Length – 40 mm
Camera – Canon 50D
White Balance – either Cloudy or Shade
Location – ditch along a side road/path that intersected with park trail