First Leaf of Fall

 

 

 

 

Evening on our Street

I had a few minutes around sunset to walk down our street try to find some photo opportunities.  The first one is a tall cattail like plan that our neighbor has and I was able to get under it and catch the last colors of a cloudless sky in the background.  I only "tuned" the photo a little and cropped it. (f5.6, 1.5 sec. shutter speed, ISO-100)

In the second photo, I merged four shots that were taken from a tripod.  Then I turned the saturation way down and turn up the blue to get this look.  I also had to remove a lot of power lines and lampposts.  (F27, 10 sec shutter speed, ISO-100)

Sun Dog (Parhelia)

My daughter spotted a Sun Dog today, which apparently has several names like Halo, Pathelia or Mock Sun.  The most interesting thing to me, was the multiple rings.  I ran the F-stop number as high as I could to reduce the size of the sun glare.  (F22, 1/500 shutter speed, ISO-100).

Duck In Flight

This is my best attempt so far at catching one of the local ducks in flight.  I had some trouble getting the contrast right between the duck (which was originally underexposed) and the water (which was a little bit overexposed). (F5.6, 1/180 sec. shutter speed, ISO-100)

Ghost Walkers

The right combination of light, walking speed and shutter speed led to this picture.  My girls think it makes me look like a ghost hunter.  I started focusing on the shiny motocycle that someone had left parked in a well lit area with interesting reflections.  Then I noticed that I could get ghost images of people walking by the bike, which made a nice contrast between the two modes of transportation.  (f27, 2 sec., ISO-100)

Evening on the Town

Our photography class went to an area of town where there are outside cafes and other activities in an open market area.  Here are a couple of photographs where I kept the shutter open long enough to catch some motion and some of the warmness of the evening sun. (f9.5, 1/4 sec, ISO-100)

 

In this second one, I liked the combination of motion and reflections.(f5.6, 0.7 sec, ISO-100)

 

I went back to the duck pond this evening, but I could not get there til the sun was almost too far gone.  In this picture (F-22, 1/2 sec., ISO-100), I not only added some saturation, hue and tint, but I also blackened the shadows some and I actually reduced the clarity to give it a softer look.  I'm still experimenting with exactly what time of day to shoot and how much tuning to do in Photoshop Elements.