New Lens, Old House, Good light

ginger_55

OK, I got the 10-22 Canon lens that I bought from Rutt, yesterday afternoon. Crummy weather then, crummy weather now.

Well, if as Andy says, you are known by your worst, and you have a best, perhaps a postcard photo, but it is the best, and the lighting became a sudden blessing..........................well, here is ONE photo from the new lens.

F 16, 1600 ISO, 20 mm, 1/400

(that ISO, well, I can explain, but it is not a good one. In my excitement I forgot that I had been practicing a bit with my dogs inside the day before, with another new lens............The photo is still good, IMO. In fact, at least it doesn't show shake, )

ginger (OH, I wish for a subject today! grey...............and going to get cold. We had a gale storm last night.)

Rhuarc

Great shot ginger! The only thing that bothers me a little is the gate on the left hand side. I think if you could have gotten the same shot without the gate, you owuld have had the tree framing the house on the right, and I think it would have been enough. But that's just me, and I'm far ffrom knowing what I'm talking about! Still a great shot though!

ginger_55

Thanks, Rhurac, I shot it every which way, so I do have a shot without the gate.

Charleston is famous for its ironwork, and one man's contribution in particular, of which this is an example.

Since I was shooting with that ultra wide lens, I wanted to do with it what I couldn't have done with another lens, I don't think I could have. This photo is sharp from close to far. My 17-40 would not have done as well.

This house is also famous for it's avenue of Oaks, I got as many as I could of that in when I sought the light changing. Unfortunately, I did not get enough live oaks in any photo to show the drama of all the oaks leading up to the house.

I just picked one photo................maybe I picked wrong. But I have it every which way, except at that time I do not have a long avenue of the oaks, and that is the good light!

g (thanks for stopping and commenting. In my mind the tree on the other side, the bare one by the house, and the fact that the house is a tad off center, balances the gate: but I don't know that.)

Andy

Very nice, G.

Next time: ISO 800 - 1/200th; ISO 400 - 1/125th No need for 1/400th second on this shot

rutt

I can see this lens is going to get some good use!

ginger_55

Thanks, Rutt, for stopping and commenting.

Thanks Andy for same!

Yes, I wish I had noticed that ISO, I was really kind of a wreck, new lens, late hour, running around with what seems now to be a 50 lb pack on my back. (That alone was stupid since I had no intention of using any but the lens on the camera. I just was not thinking well, as my work up from last night could show. I deteriorated further.)

I tend to forget things, like the ISO, unless I line of my ducks before I leave the house, or certainly before I get out of the car.

The excitement was just too much.

now I have been putting together a few more from this series. am going to upload them to smugmug...........what I will do then, I don't know. But the ISO thing reminds me that I need to charge a battery.

Thanks again, for stopping
and commenting,

ginger

ginger_55

Forgot to mention: hehe,

Since I used that high ISO unintentionally, it was a good thing I was shooting with a Canon Camera!!!

Right??? I even read that in a photo mag last night.

g

Michael Allen

I like it Ginger, I think the gate adds to the scene.

ginger_55

Thanks, Mike!

That looks like a cool lens that you are holding in your avatar.

ginger

David Stevens

ginger_55 wrote:

Thanks, Mike!

That looks like a cool lens that you are holding in your avatar.

ginger

Ginger,
What part of South Carolina do you reside? Charleston and the surrounding are has some nice photo Opportunities.:):

David Stevens

David Stevens wrote:

Ginger,
What part of South Carolina do you reside? Charleston and the surrounding are has some nice photo Opportunities.:):

Found this on a South Carolina back road to Charleston.