Wet Wednesday Experiment

11-21-18

A happy wetwednesday Experiment

Okay it is wednesday, no recent walks for me, so just a straight experimental photography results. I am still very new to my camera, and still very new to paint/photo programs, and new to various concepts about picture taking. I learn best by experimenting, and reading and looking at what I like and saying to myself "I wonder how they did that", some of the people I will ask, because I feel sure they will give a real answer and not just say look it up yourself. I read a post several days ago about aperture settings, and the numbers.

The bigger the number, like f/22 the smaller the camera eye opening is so the longer you need to have it open to get the same amount of light to the sensor as a setting at f/1.8. I also learned that the larger the setting of the f-stop number (f/22), the greater the depth of field. The more area of focus, stuff up close and stuff far away. The smaller the f-stop, the less focus area. I think I have gotten pretty good at getting those up close pictures with the background nicely faded away at times. So for my wetwednesday image I would like to present my driveway.

Still a little bit of wet on the driveway, some of it frozen some of it not. It is the day before thanksgiving we should have about 5 inches of snow or more everywhere, but it is going to be one of those strange winters I think.

As I mentioned I am also learning about a couple of paint/photo programs. The above image is a stitched together picture. Two pictures turned into one. It takes the computer a little bit of time to make the image, I should have resized the pictures before stitching. I don't think it would have taken as long to process. Like I said, learn as I go.

Here are the two pictures that I stitched together. I did have my tripod, and I was actually using it, but I did not think of doing a pano creation when I was outside taking the pictures, I was after all out there just to experiment with long exposure, and get a wet picture for my wednesday post.

So what were the numbers, F-stop was f/22, Exposure time was 1/4 sec. and ISO was Lo 1.0, (not really sure what that means, but the 100 ISO picture was nicer I think, not sure).

So what were the numbers, F-stop was f/22, Exposure time was 1/6 sec. and ISO was 100.

The pano program I think did pretty good stitching those two pictures together, and I sort of got lucky that the trees are pretty centered in the pano stitch job. Not planned at all.

All the above images were taken by me with my Nikon D7500 Camera. I used two free paint/photo programs for image processing, Paint.net (for cropping and resizing), and PhotoPad by NCH (for the pano creation)