The flowers are still blooming in our yard. Last night I took one that had just fallen off into the house and Dina said I should take a picture of it. So, I put it in the little white bowl and placed it on a food service tray that we have.
The picture was very easy to take. I started at iso 1000, f6.7. Using Aperture mode the camera was picking 1/60 to 1/45 shutter speeds.
Also, I was using Spot Metering instead of Matrix Metering because I wanted to make sure the background stayed black and underexposed. Later I tried matrix metering just to see what happened, and the Nikon still nailed the exposure perfectly. I was afraid that the camera would want to bring all the black up to gray and ruin the image, but the new matrix metering seems too smart for that.
Anyway, I was handholding the camera with my elbows propped on the kitchen counter. Using the 18-200 with the VR on, I know I can handhold at slower speeds than 1/45. So, I switched to manual exposure setting the camera to 1/15 second shutter speed and leaving the aperture at f6.7. I then chose to adjust my exposure by gradually lowering the iso until I got a good exposure. I ended up at iso 400 which is noise free and needs no post process work at all. Ideally, I could have dragged out the tripod, used iso 100, f16, and a long shutter speed, but I just didn’t want to spend too much time on this shot. Dinner was ready and I was taking up the kitchen counter now.
This shot is straight out of the camera. I had the camera set too large jpeg “normalâ€
The picture was very easy to take. I started at iso 1000, f6.7. Using Aperture mode the camera was picking 1/60 to 1/45 shutter speeds.
Also, I was using Spot Metering instead of Matrix Metering because I wanted to make sure the background stayed black and underexposed. Later I tried matrix metering just to see what happened, and the Nikon still nailed the exposure perfectly. I was afraid that the camera would want to bring all the black up to gray and ruin the image, but the new matrix metering seems too smart for that.
Anyway, I was handholding the camera with my elbows propped on the kitchen counter. Using the 18-200 with the VR on, I know I can handhold at slower speeds than 1/45. So, I switched to manual exposure setting the camera to 1/15 second shutter speed and leaving the aperture at f6.7. I then chose to adjust my exposure by gradually lowering the iso until I got a good exposure. I ended up at iso 400 which is noise free and needs no post process work at all. Ideally, I could have dragged out the tripod, used iso 100, f16, and a long shutter speed, but I just didn’t want to spend too much time on this shot. Dinner was ready and I was taking up the kitchen counter now.
This shot is straight out of the camera. I had the camera set too large jpeg “normalâ€
