A few more images from a recent retreat south of Halifax, NS, for your C & C, please.

First, two perspectives of a shack at Blue Rocks, near Lunenburg, on a rainy day. Any suggestions for working with skies that are so uniformly overcast?







And one from Lower Prospect, near sunset. Do you prefer color or b/w for this?







Thanks!

AJ, great pictures of a gorgeous day!

The color and texture of the large beach stones in that first picture are quite striking, and different from our local beaches.

I love the shots from your site with the grasses, blue sky (polarized, ND grad?), and white clouds, especially _IGP6304 and IGP6374.

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback, Chirpy, and congrats to George!

Cheers!

Eastern Passage.
Taken with MZ-5n and AF 28-70, probably polarizer, tripod; no other details recorded.

Thanks Dan, that's helpful! I have been using those adjustment sliders, but hadn't yet got a handle on the histogram - your explanation makes sense (and I've got another book or two on the shelf to keep reading!).

I can see the in-camera histogram being really useful: on a bright day with glare on the LCD screen, it's a little difficult to tell just by eye whether a shot is exposed properly - but the histogram could give me those details. Do you actually use it very often yourself?

PS I appreciated the "simplicity" comment about pic 1 - that's something I've been giving a lot of thought to lately, both in photography and in life!

Learning,

Hi folks,

Thanks for the feedback so far (keep it coming - all very helpful).

On the exposure, Lily you may well be right, as I'm still just figuring out my monitor's calibration. How does the second image look vis a vis exposure?

Dan, I like the increased contrast a lot. Thanks! I'm looking forward to using Elements, rather than what I imagine is a fairly blunt set of tools in iPhoto. (It is saved in sRGB, btw.)

This may be a "dumb question," but other than tinkering with levels in post-production, is there a way to consider contrast when actually making the photo in-camera? Is it a function of depth of field or exposure or...??

Cheers!

Two images from a day at Duncan's Cove, near Halifax, Nova Scotia. Your comments on composition, depth of field choice, and anything else, very welcome.

Taken in RAW, saved as JPEG, and only cropped in iPhoto (waiting for PS Elements to arrive this week!).





DA 18-55 @ 20 mm, 1/45 sec, f22, ISO 200, handheld





M 50 1.4 @ 1/4000, f2 (?), ISO 200, handheld, on my stomach! ''

Cheers!

Looks great, John! I did one earlier this year on our Mac's iPhoto - a photographic tribute to a friend - and found the very customizable process easy to use, and the final result very 'professional' for this amateur.

Cheers!

Sure enough, formatting in-camera solved that problem easily. Thanks for the patient advice on my learning curve ... and for the suggestions for card rotation regime.

Cheers!

Just made the switch from film (Mz-5n) to digital (K100D Super), and as I've said elsewhere ... so much to learn!

I bought two SD cards: a 4 GB SanDisk and a 1 GB lab brand. No problem taking photos, or transferring them to the Mac.

BUT ... I just noticed that when I delete the photos from the card after transferring to the computer that the camera shows a greatly reduced number of photo space available on the card. (I have set it to RAW and have left it there.) Still no trouble taking and transferring photos.

But at this rate, I'll have no space left after my next morning out!

What am I missing?

Losing my gigs,
Keith