Evaluate My Photo

[Kan Win]

Olympus C-8080WZ

4s f/2.4 at 7.1mm iso100

What do you think?

Kan Win

[Nordlys]

Awesome photo (I guess it's your favorite theme ).

But bummer the raft lodge doesn't look so sharp (or was it the wave?)

Perhaps you shouldn't use maximum aperture if you were using tripod anyway.

I thought you bought Olympus E-3. Is this your old photo or are you still using C-8080?

[astral]

I do agree awesome.

That twilight time when there is still enough light to illuminate the land

can produce some super shots and that storm cloud really makes it.

The light on the water and the excellent exposure of the raft all balances perfectly.

I would have moved the camera to lose the railing in the foreground.

Nordlys, how do you know he was on full aperture, as there is no EXIF info??

Mind you from other posts you may be right........

[Who, me ?]

wow wow wow.....

What a shot.....absolutely beautiful

Keep them coming !

[Kan Win]

Awesome photo (I guess it's your favorite theme ).

But bummer the raft lodge doesn't look so sharp (or was it the wave?) both me as well

Perhaps you shouldn't use maximum aperture if you were using tripod anyway

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I thought you bought Olympus E-3. Is this your old photo or are you still using C-8080?

Thank you all for your comments

Yes "Nordlys", that is my favourite theme and an old photo. Have the Olympus E-3 now, but had problems with it lens wise and will report this on another thread.

Re

Perhaps you shouldn't use maximum aperture if you were using tripod anyway

I have always use this method when shooting in "shutter speed mode" as I know the speed that the photo should be taken at. All of my night shots have been taken like that, so I go with what I know and it works.

Perhaps some advice from your good-self and others would help me to take better photos, all are most welcomed to comment.

"astral" comment

as there is no EXIF info??

there is

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Full EXIF Info

Date/Time 02-Oct-2005 18:51:58

Make OLYMPUS CORPORATION

Model C8080WZ

Flash Used No

Focal Length 7.1 mm

Exposure Time 4.00 sec

Aperture f/2.4

ISO Equivalent 100

Exposure Bias

White Balance

Metering Mode matrix (5)

JPEG Quality (6)

Exposure Program shutter priority (4)

Focus Distance

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and

I would have moved the camera to lose the railing in the foreground.

only way with that was to remove the railing as I was so tight to that with a very wide angle lens, trying to keep the whole raft in the picture, hence the view and it gives it a little depth of view as well.

Thank you all,

Yours truly,

Kan Win

P.S. that shot was after 100 taken and a few beers in between only one good. Have printed the photo at near A4 size and framed it, looks great.

[Nordlys]

Perhaps you shouldn't use maximum aperture if you were using tripod anyway

I have always use this method when shooting in "shutter speed mode" as I know the speed that the photo should be taken at. All of my night shots have been taken like that, so I go with what I know and it works.

Perhaps some advice from your good-self and others would help me to take better photos, all are most welcomed to comment.

Most if not all lenses yields sharpest resolution at aperture around F8. This includes some of the best quality lenses whose maximum aperture yields sharper image than cheaper lenses at F8 but this is especially true to cheap lenses that comes with compact point & shoot (including "prosumer" camera like your C-8080). This has always been the case with my Sony F828 too, the same class camera as your Olympus but probably with a better lens. This shot is landscape photo whose distance of subject in infinite range of focusng ring with nothing in the foreground to blur the background with (bokeh). There's also no moving subjects therefore there really isn't a point of using maximum aperture unless you don't have a tripod, which you did so the shutter speed is not really an issue because you don't have to worry about camera shake. If shutter speed is not an issue I don't use shutter speed priority mode but aperture priority. I then set the appropriate aperture depending on the subject, in the case of landscape or still life usually anywhere from F5.6 to F11.

[Kan Win]

Thank you "Nordlys" will try your recommendation with both cameras next time (anywhere from F5.6 to F11).

Kan Win

[grapetable]

Sensational!

[draggons]

Nice shot Kan Win.