Your Canon Photos No.1: 4th to 13th May 2023

Thanks Digirame.

Excellent photos mocha.
My favourite is the third, the Canal scene.

Mocha,

I have noticed that sometimes you use Partial metering, and sometimes Evaluative.
Could you explain your decision-making process in determining when you use which?

Thanks,

Steve Thomas

Dave, thanks for the information about the Canon RP camera. I would rather spend more to get a camera that has less problems. Where I live there are also camera stores that do sensor cleaning, but I've never had to use them or do it myself.

Mocha,

Ah, that blue sky...just love seeing that in the third picture. The Jackdaws must be some type of crow is my guess. My hats off to anyone that has patience to follow butterflies around, waiting for them to land. 😀 The butterfly is enhanced by those beautiful blue flowers.

Hi stevet1,

For all my bird/mammal photos I use two custom settings which are set to partial metering this uses 10% to 15% of the centre picture to calculate the exposure, which should be the birds/mammals body so no need to decide if I need to add exposure if I'm aiming into the sky or otherwise, the object I'm taking is the item that is exposed correctly. The third custom setting for BIF's is also set to partial but depending on the circumstances I will sometimes override this and add/subtract exposure with the exposure compensation.

Evaluative I use for general scenes and again adjust with exposure compensation if needs be.

If I'm using Manual I let you know in the Exif Data what metering I used as an initial start point.

Mocha,

Thank you.

Steve Thomas

I was working with my tablet and cropped with Snapseed.
Lens is an 18-135 IS USM.
It' amazing how these squirrels are camouflaged with their environment.

Steve Thomas

Steve,

Yes, this type of squirrel is camouflaged very well. That's a very nice photo.

Canon 5DS with Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens, Rhododendron President Lincoln, plant is almost 30 years old, deeply shady area of the yard. Several other Rhododendron photos are newly on flickr, of a different, larger variety,
2O6A0767 Canon 5DS Rhododendron Pres. Lincoln CROP by Sandy Fleischmann, on Flickr

I call it 'brokeh' 😎

Crush hour by simple.joy, on Flickr

Shot with a (badly damaged) Steinheil Repro-Objektiv 80 mm f/4.5 on a Canon EOS R5.

You are crushin' it!

Sandy,

That's beautiful. You remind me to show one of my own. This is the time of year for those rhododendrons.

Simplejoy,

I'm amazed at how nice you are able to get these pictures to look with ordinary things. The lights in the background are captivating.

OK...it's time to show one more picture. 😀 There have been so many nice ones shown already...wow...good job everyone.

Subject: Rhododendron

Model - Canon EOS Rebel T7i
ExposureTime - 1/125 seconds
FNumber - 11
ISOSpeedRatings - 1250
ExposureBiasValue - -0.33
FocalLength - 155 mm
Lens Model - EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM

I like it. 😀

@simplejoy

Never cared much for macro images of inanimate objects but you have a special way of bringing it, excellent compositions with everything else on point as well, I really enjoy these pictures, good art is good art I guess.

Ray