Thank you to all the members and committee members that crawled out of bed before the crack of dawn on Sunday to join us in Bot Gardens. As you can see by the pictures the weather smiled down on us and we had a fairly clear sunrise. The above picture was taken with a tripod and a slow shutter speed to increase the amount of light reaching the digital sensor.
In the above picture I tried to keep the sun to the side of the frame in order to get an effect of the sun's rays reaching out over the landscape. Think about how you want the picture to look before you take it so that you have a clear focus. With landscape photo's of a horizon remember to make sure that the horizon is as straight as you can get it. Last time I went to Bot Gardens I forgot and came back with only one shot that had a straight horizon.
Patterns in nature make for attractive features in your photo's. I liked how the lines of the hills followed each other and how they draw your eye into the frame. The morning mist adds atmosphere to the shot.
Another shot showing how the light touches the land, but this time with a slightly different composition.
For this close up of the water droplets I used my macro function (which is usually denoted by a small flower icon on digital cameras). Getting nice and close to the flower and keeping extremely still are essential to capturing a good macro shot. As you can see macro is like a super zoom that focuses on the object and blurs the background.
Thank you to all the members and committee members that crawled out of bed before the crack of dawn on Sunday to join us in Bot Gardens. As you can see by the pictures the weather smiled down on us and we had a fairly clear sunrise. The above picture was taken with a tripod and a slow shutter speed to increase the amount of light reaching the digital sensor.
In the above picture I tried to keep the sun to the side of the frame in order to get an effect of the sun's rays reaching out over the landscape. Think about how you want the picture to look before you take it so that you have a clear focus. With landscape photo's of a horizon remember to make sure that the horizon is as straight as you can get it. Last time I went to Bot Gardens I forgot and came back with only one shot that had a straight horizon.
Patterns in nature make for attractive features in your photo's. I liked how the lines of the hills followed each other and how they draw your eye into the frame. The morning mist adds atmosphere to the shot.
Another shot showing how the light touches the land, but this time with a slightly different composition.
For this close up of the water droplets I used my macro function (which is usually denoted by a small flower icon on digital cameras). Getting nice and close to the flower and keeping extremely still are essential to capturing a good macro shot. As you can see macro is like a super zoom that focuses on the object and blurs the background.
beautiful!
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