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Subject: In Camera HDR Photo

Yesterday I was out in the evening and I thought I would take another in-camera HDR photo. With the Canon M50 Mark II I don't have any control of the settings (as far as I know) like I do with the Canon RP. The sun had already set behind the mountains.

I like using the in-camera HDR photo feature in the evenings and at night. You all should try it sometime too (if your camera allows for it).

Photo No. 1 - Here's the HDR photo that was taken hand-held. It takes some concentration to not move the camera while waiting for all three pictures to be taken.

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/60 seconds
FNumber - 5.60
ISOSpeedRatings - 6400
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 36 mm
Lens Model - EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 2 - We see a non-HDR photo of a portion of the mural on the building that is seen above.

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/40 seconds
FNumber - 5
ISOSpeedRatings - 800
ExposureBiasValue - -0.33
FocalLength - 18 mm
Lens Model - EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

Just a few from a hike earlier today. Not as sunny as we wanted but with about 15c a comfortable hike.
Visited Drents-Friese Wold National Park near Wateren

Photobygms,

It looks like you are having some sunshine. We are experiencing the same, but this time without clouds.

To better appreciate your photos, I looked at the larger sizes. I really like the fourth one with all of the trees. There's a mixture of lighting there and you seemed to have captured that perfectly. I just love seeing all of those fresh spring green leaves.

Thanks @Digirame Spring is there so to say. 😎

Subject: Yellow Rose

This is the first rose flower picture from me for the year 2024. 😀 Some early roses are starting to bloom with the warmer weather. OK, what did I use for the background? 😀

Model - Canon EOS Rebel T7i
ExposureTime - 1/320 seconds
FNumber - 10
ISOSpeedRatings - 1250
ExposureBiasValue - 0.33
FocalLength - 100 mm
Lens Model - EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM

Subject: Reminder

Remember that the starting date for the next weekly thread will be on Monday. So please continue sharing during this weekend. Thank you all for your contributions and comments. We started off really well.

What do you think of this approach?

I ran across this a couple times in my reading. It goes like this...

When facing a high dynamic range situation, expose for the highlights, and add 2-3 stops of positive exposure compensation.

One guy went so far as to say he spot-metered off the highlights.

I haven't tried this yet, but I just wondered what you all thought.

Steve Thomas

Steve,

I take each image on a case by case basis. I'm not sure I exactly understand what you are trying to say. Sometimes a person might want to expose for the faces or the sky or something else. So it just depends on the circumstances.

Dig,

Nice rose. It looks like a piece of blue velvet in the background.

As far as the high dynamic range technique goes, I think the theory is that by exposing for the highlights, (a bright sky) the camera is going to underexpose a little to bring things back to 18% grey. This results in a very dark foreground. Adding a couple of stops of positive exposure compensation will lighten the shadows (the foreground).

I think this technique is practced more by people who shoot RAW, and intend to spend time in post production. I think in earlier times, it might have been known as ETTR, or expose to the right.

Steve Thomas

David,

Ah...beautiful roses. I like those a lot. Also it's nice to see the blue sky. I edited this to say that I really like the daises too. Yes, you got that just right.

The background for my yellow rose was a plastic black garbage bag. I could wrap it around the leaves. I'll have to keep looking for better backgrounds. It was just something I was playing around with.

My favorite 👍

Steve,

The background for my yellow rose flower was a plastic black garbage bag. I was just playing around with it, trying to do something different.

Dig,

You done good.

Steve Thomas

Steve Thomas.

Steve,

Is the "bear" hibernating? 😀 It looks like it might have had a lot of activity to make it so tired.

Dig,

Hah! This particular "bear" hibernates 27 hours a day, at least.

As you know, Irfanview lets you put a frame around a picture. I was curious to see if I could insert text into the frame, instead of the actual picture. I added a plain white frame and increased the pixel size to 20 pixels. I added a text box to the frame and typed in some text. It worked pretty well, I think. I figured you could use it to label some magnificent landscape shot like Mount Hood or something 😀

Steve Thomas

Just a little framing shot at 97mm from about 10-12 feet away, I think.
I was using the 18-135 USM lens.
At first, I thought my lens had a scratch, and I thought, "Oh no!". but it turned out some little black bird decided to photobomb my shot, and I had to airbrush his little behind out of the picture.

Steve Thomas

Steve,

Thanks for the tip about adding text to the frame. I'll have to look at it later.

Steve,

Sometimes I am able to copy & paste away distracting elements, if they are in something plain like sky.

Dig,

Recently, I started shooting in C-RAW and am learning how to use DPP4. I download my pictures to a thumb drive to save disk space on my hard drive and work from there. After any editing, I convert the file to a jpg for web and printing purposes.

Steve