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[chickenwings]

A few photos from around our little piece of earth.

 

[heartbreakdiet]

Aww, so sweet chickenwings!

 

[3acres]

F stop is aperture. The "exposure triangle" is made up of aperture, shutter and iso. The smaller your f stop, the more light you're letting into your sensor. The shutter also lets in light, the higher the shutter (1/1000 for instance) the less light that setting is letting in. However, a quick shutter freezes motion. Try shooting a running animal at 1/100 and its going to look blurry, your shutter is open too long to pause the motion. Then you have iso. The lower the number, the less light to the sensor. Say it's dusk and you're trying to take a picture of goats playing. You're probably going to be at like 1/250 - 1/400, f/2.8 so you can have that smooth background in- camera, that leaves you needing to crack up the iso to take a well exposed photo. Depending on your camera, you're going to start introducing "grain" into your image the higher your iso is. If you bump it to iso 1600 and now have a well exposed image, but when you look at it full size you'll be seeing sone grain. (Which doesn't mean it's a bad picture, but it may not be as tack sharp as you'd hoped). Based on your available light and your desired outcome, you pick your settings to get a well exposed image with the feel you want.

Thank you very much for this breakdown and info! I appreciate it! My camera hates low light, any motion at all, stuff far away, stuff up close, but it's probably more like me not knowing all this that is the problem. I read this the first time and it made no sense, but now that I've read it quite a few times, I think I am beginning to see what you mean....and am on my way to learning more on how to take better photos!

I now see where I can change things on my camera while it's on the manual setting. I always have it on the auto setting. It seems to range from....1/1600 to... 1/1250 to... 1/1000 to... 1/800 to....1/640 to .....1/500 to .....1/400 to....1/320 to....then a bunch of increments to where it starts looking like 8". The light on the view screen really changes while going through all of them!!! I see next to it the f8.0 and can go down to f2.7. That changes the light on the screen also. I need to reread your post some more while playing with all this. Thanks again!!!

 

[3acres]

Very nice, DucksnDaffodils! Still jealous of everyone's ducks!

. ...and aoxa is probably going to ban me from posting on here I have put so many pics in here. I am ashamed...

. I need to hide for awhile, but am glad I am learning so much!


Thanks, 3Dchicken! I appreciate your thoughts!


Very nice to you also, chickenwings! I've never seen a pic like that 2nd one.

 

[heartbreakdiet]

Im always glad to help! The 1/xxx are all shutter speeds. 1/100 means your shutter is open for a hundred of a second, 1/8000 means its open for an 8000th of a second. 8" means its open for 8 seconds. Have you ever seen the pictures where people "write" with a glow stick/flash light? They do that with a long shutter. Anytime you're photographing something moving, 1/250 would be the absolute lowest you'd want to go to avoid motion blur.

 

[Sanna]

The lower the aperture is, the smaller the plane on focus is. If you shoot at f/2.8 you'll have more blur than shooting at f/5 for instance. Here are some pictures from part of a tutorial I posted on another forum that help explain/show the difference

That's great! Love the little Mario mushroom.

That was my favorite game once upon a time.

Here is a full body shot of our Tom that passed away in the fire. Oh gosh do I miss them.. Still so hard to go through images. I cry every time. Anyway.. I think I should do a memorial slideshow or something. I need to face the grief instead of trying to shut it out so much.

He was gorgeous. Can't say enough about royal palms..

If you do decide on getting this breed - they fly like crazy so need to either be clipped on one side, or behind electric fencing, or behind a fully enclosed pen if you don't want them flying in the trees and roosting there. Mine were always bothering the neighbours.
That is what my FIL said. F stop. Thank you for the picture details. I work much better with images than with words. Thank you!

Beautiful!
I've never experienced what you have but if it was me...I would probably try to remember those good times I had with my animals and be thankful for the times we had. I lost my horse a year ago...on Valentine's Day, go figure! Came home after work about 5pm and he was down, flat, on the ground. The vet was there 3 times that night and we finally decided to put him down at 4am... I'll never forget that night. Or my horse. The pain in the *** that he was!

But he was the best horse you could ask for and I learned TONS of good things from him. You never get used to these things but somehow you just learn to live with it..

What it comes to the turkeys. All our birds live in closed in areas so flying away and pestering neighbors won't be a problem.

Was Joe a Bourbon Red? Really pretty!

Yes, he was a bourbon red as far as I know. I don't know anything about turkeys.

That's pretty cool! What did you use to create this image?

Just found this thread, and since photography is a hobby of mine, I thought I would share some pics of my "farm" animals.

This is our two doelings from last spring. Emma, and Princess.

One of my many batches of ducklings last spring. Gotta love the wrinkles underneath their chins.

Look at those faces!!

He's HUGE! How big do they get normally?!

I have no idea how big turkeys get....I know nothing about them. lol But according to Wikipedia, Bourbon Red toms weigh about 33 pounds.

A few photos from around our little piece of earth.

Absolutely gorgeous!

 

[3acres]

Im always glad to help! The 1/xxx are all shutter speeds. 1/100 means your shutter is open for a hundred of a second, 1/8000 means its open for an 8000th of a second. 8" means its open for 8 seconds. Have you ever seen the pictures where people "write" with a glow stick/flash light? They do that with a long shutter. Anytime you're photographing something moving, 1/250 would be the absolute lowest you'd want to go to avoid motion blur.

Ahhh....I took a pic of just the couch while it was on 8" and I thought I broke the camera earlier...lol....I, I, I....

. You must of sensed that. I appreciate this also! I did try to write my name with the moon one night. I took this on 2/5/12...I didn't come close....


I'm anxious to try this stuff out outside! I would love to have a pic of my goats playin that isn't blurry as heck!

I see there's an iso button also....it changes from iso auto to iso high like you talked about.

Thanks again! I'm taking it all in!

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

Those are some fine looking animals, KBG204!

Be careful, showbarnmom! ...editing gets addicting....household chores go undone, animals go hungry and leave, seasons pass without you knowing it...lol.

Mama Hen Chris - please stop putting pics of that duck on here! JUST JOKIN! It's just I don't have one yet and it's making me want one real bad!..

That's very interesting, heartbreakdiet! I guess I don't know what the f things you and aoxa are talking about.

LOL It's my only duckie. It won't be staying though. It will be going to a nice duck family eventually. My friend gave me two of her duck eggs for my broody silkie. She kept 4. Her mama duck accidentally stepped on 2 of the newly hatched ducklings and killed them. The other eggs were duds. She is a Stanbridge White Magpie

 

[3acres]

That's pretty cool! What did you use to create this image?

Thanks! I couldn't remember....so I went surfin' today and found it incase anybody asked. Lunapic. You can click on that feature right on the first page of their site. I did that to a few pics and I made a 3d cube box with three images of me on it for a couple blogs I used to have using lunapic. That's all I did on any other edit deal until finding picnik, then picmonkey. Now I'm playing with others.

 

[JoyfulPromise]

A few photos from around our little piece of earth.

Gorgeous shots!!!!!! I absolutely love the color and edit of the first two. Almost a dreamy quality, so soft. and of course the little chick in the last pic.....