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aug15.jpg - The sunflowers are about dead now.  I was wanting today to take a photo of some red peppercorns- the original idea being to make one look like Mars on a black background.  I ended up just shooting three of them for an abstract.  What I tried new on this was fooling the camera.  It wanted to overexpose the shot, and had trouble focusing on the smooth surface.  So, having noticed that when I use time-delay to take the picture, the camera locks in the settings at the beginning of the timeout, so I can stick a high-contrast, whiter object into the field of view when I press the shutter, which both reduced the exposure and gave the camera something concrete to focus on.  Then I removed the object before it took the picture.  As a result, very little level adjustment was needed here.

Things I would do differently:  ?
Mods:  Sharpened.

The sunflowers are about dead now. I was wanting today to take a photo of some red peppercorns- the original idea being to make one look like Mars on a black background. I ended up just shooting three of them for an abstract. What I tried new on this was fooling the camera. It wanted to overexpose the shot, and had trouble focusing on the smooth surface. So, having noticed that when I use time-delay to take the picture, the camera locks in the settings at the beginning of the timeout, so I can stick a high-contrast, whiter object into the field of view when I press the shutter, which both reduced the exposure and gave the camera something concrete to focus on. Then I removed the object before it took the picture. As a result, very little level adjustment was needed here. Things I would do differently: ? Mods: Sharpened. | aug15
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Camera: NIKON E8800 | Date: 8/15/07 4:36 PM | Resolution: 800 x 297 | ISO: 81 | Exp. Time: 1/4s | Aperture: 3.0 | Focal Length: 11.8mm
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