This is a peek at an Australian Aboriginal painting by Dorothy Napangardi. It's a rather large piece and it always makes me feel like I'm in a quiet and steady rain in the dark.
I wanted to practice using the selective focus dial on my camera (seriously, I'd been using the center focal point and doing that push-halfway-and-reframe thing until yesterday!). @taffy had recommended I do this on other photos to focus closeup and fade into the distance but whenever I moved the camera it would refocus. So once I figured it out, I wanted to practice on everything in my house to get practice with it! This image made sense to me because rain is always more clear when it's up close, but in the distance, it's a haze.
Very nice control of depth of field and focusing. I had had look through your album and you have some great still life shots. I see you're messing with different camera settings.
For your challenge this week I'd like you to try and capture movement in your photos. You will need to experiment with shutter speeds and exposure times. If you have the use of a tripod or a stable surface you should be able to blur a person or vehicle whilst keeping the background in focus. Whilst decreasing your shutter speed you may suffer from overexposure. A filter would help reduce the over exposure
If you don't have any filters you should aim to take te picture in a darker environment to avoid over exposure. You can use this technique to capture light trails of cars as below http://365project.org/johnmnewman/365/2013-01-07
Let me know if this is something you are able to try and achieve
@johnmnewman -- Indeed, this will be a challenge, but one I will learn from. Thanks for the tips on HOW to do this . . . I'm looking forward to trying it out.
@vankrey@pflaume@roadshow@tishpics@jodimuli@margiec -- I truly appreciate your comments! I was so excited to learn that I could control the focus, which should have been a very early thing to learn long ago!
For your challenge this week I'd like you to try and capture movement in your photos. You will need to experiment with shutter speeds and exposure times. If you have the use of a tripod or a stable surface you should be able to blur a person or vehicle whilst keeping the background in focus. Whilst decreasing your shutter speed you may suffer from overexposure. A filter would help reduce the over exposure
If you don't have any filters you should aim to take te picture in a darker environment to avoid over exposure. You can use this technique to capture light trails of cars as below
http://365project.org/johnmnewman/365/2013-01-07
Let me know if this is something you are able to try and achieve
John