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One's not enough, I want em' all

© Russell C. Amidon

One's not enough, I want em' all

Uploaded: September 07, 2008

Description

Shutter speed: 1/400 sec
Aperture: 5.6

Exif: F Number: 5.6, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 1/400 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 100, White balance: Manual white balance, FocalLength: 104.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS 30D

Comments

September 24, 2008

I like this, I'm an animal lover, so anything with dogs will grab my attention. I see you used the sports mode on this, and it seems to work well. All in all a very nice photo. #1004226

Russell C. Amidon September 25, 2008

Thank you Sandra,
However, it was not taken in Sports mode but Spot metering mode. This helps in metering a very small area (the dogs fur and nothing else) and then make adjustments as to what the metering says. Shooting a black dog and trying to keep it black is sometimes very difficult. The cameras meter is calibrated to make everything neutral. If I had shot at what the camera wants to meter at, Niko (my dog) would have come out neutral gray or over exposed. In order to maintain how black she is, I underexposed what the meter said thus keeping the fur black instead of gray. Manual exposure was also used where I set the initial exposure to a fast shutter speed (1/400 sec) in this case to stop the action, and adjusted the aperture to keep the nice shiny black coat. I very,very rarely use any of the cameras preset exposure modes. You need to take control of your camera, don't let it control you. >Russ #6509460

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