After dinner on Saturday, we drove down to the lake to let Xander have a walk in new and different surroundings. It was dog-walking central . . . the only people who didn't have dogs with them were the young couples who clearly wished all us dog walkers would get the heck out of their romantic moment.
I took the opportunity to try doing some low-light photography with the new camera.
Looking northwest from the eastern breakwater in Whitby harbour. This was taken with an 18-55mm zoom lens on manual focus (ISO 200).
Xander found the constant boat traffic fascinating . . . and the even more constant water bird noise quite distracting. Same lens using the autofocus feature.
Looking south towards the harbour mouth. Same lens and settings.
Switched to a longer, but slower, manual focus lens here (70-200mm zoom). All the sunset photos I took appear with more yellow and less red than was visible to the naked eye. I tried compensating for it, but it was only partially successful.
The light was fading rapidly by now, so I switched to my fastest lens, a 50mm manual focus lens at 800 ISO.
The harbour light (same lens and settings).
Proof positive that there are idiots and vandals everywhere. I've bumped up the brightness and contrast a bit so this would show up. This was one of the "artworks" left by previous visitors on the base of the harbour light. Same lens at 800 ISO.
Posted by Nicholas at July 23, 2006 12:59 AM
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