DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY - Street Night Life 3rd Impact...

Ok, I decided to go out last night, this time armed with my new n' shiny™ tripod. I have to say the tripod definitively makes a difference… I felt I could shoot at ISO 800 and I did. Also I decided to shoot some color shots this time.

 

A couple of observations on this assignment:

 

• I was trying to      THINK a bit more before shooting, but I still found myself "must try      a shot now" in a big of out of control feeling
• I don't know if      the solution is learn to manual focus to the hilt but I found situations      where the camera focusing helped, others where I should have      pre-manually-focused
• Sometimes I      used Program Auto, most of the time Manual, and often I I felt I should      have used manual with some pre-set exposure/aperture
• And speaking on      presets, the camera metering proved from useful to useless in many      situations. Seems like the only solution is to develop an      "instinct" of what to preset the camera to use, shoot n' pray      :-)
• In this batch I      think I have done better, but I noticed there's a higher percentage of      crooked (tilted) shots and some shots where I cut the legs off at the      wrong point of the subjects.. I still decided to post them because I felt      later on if I have to I can rotate them and crop them. However I posted      all the shots with NO post processing because my teacher wants me to      enforce as much as possible to capture the shot right from the get go
• I need to pay      more attention how I align the camera with the tripod
• Yes, some      exposures here are off. GRRRR.
• Continuous      focusing on the camera works but ONLY in good light and only if the      subject you are tracking is not going to be obscured by temporary subjects      in between (i.e. cars)

 

Did I get what I wanted out of this shooting trip this time? I think I did better, but believe it or not I am not quite satisfied yet. But I am happy I see an improvement.

 

As always, praise/critique/comments/demands/shouts/whatever is welcome.  Click on the link on the left or if you have problems finding what the left means, click here.

UPDATE: I am using the Olympus Zuiko 14mm-54mm and the 50mm-200mm digital lenses. One important thing when looking at the Exif, is that to get the 35mm zoom equivalent, you need to multiply the Exif data numbers by 2.

 
  So if it says "200mm" it's actually 400mm in 35mm terms. This is because the 4/3rds factor of conversion is 2x (Nikon uses 1.5x and Canon uses 1.6x I believe - in their non-full frame sensor cameras).

Comments

[carlosmorales]

Damn. Awesome.