Forum: Photography


Subject: SLR's - Manual Vs. Auto Mode

CavalierLady opened this issue on Sep 12, 2006 · 37 posts


CavalierLady posted Thu, 14 September 2006 at 11:52 AM

Thank you, Kimmie. You have always been much more creative with your Nikon than I have been. You really have the knack! I agree that the 7900 does well in macro. I did try the gaussian blur for DOF once on a flower image, but my attempt wasn't as good as the real thing. It is time consuming to do all the erasing, but it can be fun. I was working on an image this morning with this frog composition, doing just that. Composition and light I'm trying to learn as I go along. All the shots I took yesterday at the park are so darned bright!! I thought a sunny day in the park would be fun, which it was, but some cloud cover probably would have been better. I'll post a few over the next few days, but they could have been better. There's not much to shoot in a tiny town, and I don't get out often enough to the city where there are more things to see and do.

Out of 120 or so images, I probably have less than a dozen worth posting. From my vacation images, I probably posted a couple dozen or so here at RR, and put around 200 on my website. But I took well over 1000 shots over those two weeks. So that is probably around 10 percent or so that are worth showing. I am curious to know what others here end up with. Do you folks take many shots just to get a few really good ones? I'm sure the level of expertise would raise the percentage quite a bit. But it would be interesting to know.

Thanks for the comment on my avatar. My girls are my "kids". And they are all sleeping at my feet at the moment, too. I have a few more older images of them here: http://www.cavalierladyfractals.com/cavaliers.htm
including a cocker spaniel that we owned. And I crawled under the house this morning and fiddled with the drainage line, so I might have averted a large repair bill, at least for the time being.  I hope so.  Hopefully, the hot Texas summer temps are over now. But it will still be several months of saving up, as the price of the camera is only one expense. As everyone as already said, by the time you think about bag, lenses, cleaning supplies, filters, etc. etc., the price could double or triple in a hurry.

Thanks for the reply....

Maria