Your Canon Photos No. 29: 19th to 25th November 2023

"Feelin The Vibe"

One lone little elm tree hanging on amidst a bed of honeysuckle.
Canon 55-250mm IS STM

Steve Thomas

Beautiful work Simplejoy.

OpenCube,

This one looks like to me, that he is intently thinking or listening about something. What's the story behind this one?

Steve,

Are you referring to the small tree with the yellow leaves? That looks like a maple tree.

"This image is a pure happen stance of created circumstances. I set up the reflection gimmick to manipulate the projection of a television, and then click, click, click."

Dig,

I think you're right.

An arborist I am not.

Steve Thomas

Waitin' for the mouses

Tried this with a color polarizer on.

Steve Thomas

Just playing around with zoomed shots. I used a 3 stop filter which allowed me to slow down the shutter speed and give me time to do the zooming.

Picture#1 3.2" at f/5.0 and ISO of 250

Picture# 2 2" at f/6.3 and ISO of 100

Steve Thomas

Steve,

Seeing the cat stalking the mouse reminded me of something similar a long time ago, when I saw what looked like a feral (wild) cat. It appeared also to be stalking some prey. The cat heard me and turned around in fear. I did capture a photo of it showing the hair that stood up on its arched back. I'll never forget the fear that the cat showed before it quickly took off. There were coyotes in this area, so the cat had every reason to be fearful.

Steve,

It looks like you are having fun with the filter. I like the first picture the best, with the bright red colors.

Subject: Happy Thanksgiving Day

I hope you all are having a great Thanksgiving Day today (for us that celebrate it in the USA). Canada celebrate this also, but in October each year. For those that are outside the USA or Canada, if you haven't adopted our Holiday, I hope you do. It's time to be with the family and after the Thanksgiving meal enjoy that pecan or pumpkin pie. 😀

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/25 seconds
FNumber - 4.50
ISOSpeedRatings - 6400
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 20 mm
Lens Model - EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

I thought this was kind of pretty in its own right.

I don't know. Did that tree just sneeze?

Steve Thomas

Steve,

Yes, the tree looks like it sneezed. You have a pretty blue sky.

Sunrise this morning 11-25-23

The sneezing tree last night coughed up this:

Steve Thomas

Nice pictures, Steve. But why not use ISO 400 or greater? This would shorten the exposure time and avoid what looks like camera motion, which causes blurriness? In fact, I think you would find it interesting and valuable to see how high you can take the ISO setting with your camera before the results become unacceptable!

David

David,

Yeah, you're probably right. I was pushing it trying to shoot handheld at those kinds of shutter speeds. I guess I should stick to the old reciprocal rule- or haul out the old tripod.

My camera takes decent shots all the way up to 12800. I can extend that to 25000, but I've never tried to push it that far.

Steve Thomas

I dont think you need the tripod for this type of shot. From what you say, high ISO values should work well with your camera. I usually set ISO to automatic, and have rarely been disappointed.

By the way, the “old reciprocal rule” was intended for film. Digital sensors are much less forgiving. Since digital “film” is so cheap, it is better to forget rules and just experiment.

Best,

David