Mocha,
Ah, that blue sky...just love seeing that in the third picture. The Jackdaws must be some type of crow is my guess. My hats off to anyone that has patience to follow butterflies around, waiting for them to land. 😀 The butterfly is enhanced by those beautiful blue flowers.
Hi stevet1,
For all my bird/mammal photos I use two custom settings which are set to partial metering this uses 10% to 15% of the centre picture to calculate the exposure, which should be the birds/mammals body so no need to decide if I need to add exposure if I'm aiming into the sky or otherwise, the object I'm taking is the item that is exposed correctly. The third custom setting for BIF's is also set to partial but depending on the circumstances I will sometimes override this and add/subtract exposure with the exposure compensation.
Evaluative I use for general scenes and again adjust with exposure compensation if needs be.
If I'm using Manual I let you know in the Exif Data what metering I used as an initial start point.
Mocha,
Thank you.
Steve Thomas
I was working with my tablet and cropped with Snapseed.
Lens is an 18-135 IS USM.
It' amazing how these squirrels are camouflaged with their environment.
Steve Thomas
Steve,
Yes, this type of squirrel is camouflaged very well. That's a very nice photo.
Canon 5DS with Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens, Rhododendron President Lincoln, plant is almost 30 years old, deeply shady area of the yard. Several other Rhododendron photos are newly on flickr, of a different, larger variety,
2O6A0767 Canon 5DS Rhododendron Pres. Lincoln CROP by Sandy Fleischmann, on Flickr
I call it 'brokeh' 😎
Crush hour by simple.joy, on Flickr
Shot with a (badly damaged) Steinheil Repro-Objektiv 80 mm f/4.5 on a Canon EOS R5.
You are crushin' it!
Sandy,
That's beautiful. You remind me to show one of my own. This is the time of year for those rhododendrons.
Simplejoy,
I'm amazed at how nice you are able to get these pictures to look with ordinary things. The lights in the background are captivating.
OK...it's time to show one more picture. 😀 There have been so many nice ones shown already...wow...good job everyone.
Subject: Rhododendron
Model - Canon EOS Rebel T7i
ExposureTime - 1/125 seconds
FNumber - 11
ISOSpeedRatings - 1250
ExposureBiasValue - -0.33
FocalLength - 155 mm
Lens Model - EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM
I like it. 😀
Never cared much for macro images of inanimate objects but you have a special way of bringing it, excellent compositions with everything else on point as well, I really enjoy these pictures, good art is good art I guess.
Ray
Hi Dig,
I love the colours of your rhododendron. I used to see a lot of them in southern England and my mother was very fond of them. They apparently are not native to the UK and some people dislike them because they grow like the plague, apparently, and you cant get rid of them!
The funny thing about your picture is that all the petals seem to to be on the same plane, which cannot be so. I dont think it is your f/11 aperture, though it maybe (I rarely go there); but why does it look so flat? Did you do any special processing?
David
David and Digirame, just FYI, here's a rather similar rhododendron I recently posted online taken with the 5DS + 50mm f/1.8 at f/5. I forget the name of these often-seen color rhododendrons. This was in clear but a bit overcast light. The other rhodo shot crop I posted above was in deep shade with one streak of sun hitting it.
2O6A0759 Canon 5DS Rhododendron season VA by Sandy Fleischmann, on Flickr
Hi Ray, Thank You.
Hopefully we've all got lots more to share, this new thread is looking good.
Hi Dunlin, Thank You.
The Sun was bossing it that day. 😀
Hi Digirame, Thank You.
We've been having some good weather of late but early this week it's changed back to mixed weather, You're right the Jackdaws are a member of the Crow family but they have a grey hood colouring. This time of year the butterflies seem to be always on the wing, I got lucky with this one. 😀
