Pics of a flower I think i'm improving: Hello, New to photography but I have learned MUCH from this forum. I'm hoping my pictures show how much i have learned.

mariposa84 Loc: Rochester NY

Hello,
New to photography but I have learned MUCH from this forum. I'm hoping my pictures show how much i have learned.

amyinsparta Loc: White county, TN

mariposa84 wrote:

Hello,
New to photography but I have learned MUCH from this forum. I'm hoping my pictures show how much i have learned.

only thing you might think about is your exposure. It's best to turn it down when photographing white objects. Of course, I don't always remember to do that myself!

mariposa84 Loc: Rochester NY

amyinsparta wrote:

only thing you might think about is your exposure. It's best to turn it down when photographing white objects. Of course, I don't always remember to do that myself!

Ok so by turning it down you mean decreasing the the fstop number to let more light in?

MyPharo Loc: New Jersey

Do you know what the camera setting was ? Auto or Manual . or some Photo Processing program such as Photoshop Elements could help adjust the photo over all, to make it "more: perfect .. If manual the ISO for out door photos should set to under 400 normally. On sunny days I use 100 or 200. The photos other than that are great shots very clear.

mariposa84 wrote:

Ok so by turning it down you mean decreasing the the fstop number to let more light in?

mariposa84 Loc: Rochester NY

MyPharo wrote:

Do you know what the camera setting was ? Auto or Manual . or some Photo Processing program such as Photoshop Elements could help adjust the photo over all, to make it "more: perfect .. If manual the ISO for out door photos should set to under 400 normally. On sunny days I use 100 or 200. The photos other than that are great shots very clear.

yes the ISO was at 100 for all of them.
55mm for all of them
1/200 sec for all of them
The Closeup of the front of the open flowers aperature was at f16.
The closeup of the side of the open flowers aperature was at f13.
The pic of the closed flower with space on the sides aperature was at f9.
The pic of the side of the closed flowers aperature is at f8.
The pic of the back of the flowers aperature is at f11.
I was going to try and fix the pictures and add this info next to the picture but i cant figure out how sorry.

MtnMan Loc: ID

mariposa84 wrote:

Hello,
New to photography but I have learned MUCH from this forum. I'm hoping my pictures show how much i have learned.

Very nicely composed, metered, focused, and executed!

The bokeh on some is very nice.

MtnMan Loc: ID

amyinsparta wrote:

only thing you might think about is your exposure. It's best to turn it down when photographing white objects. Of course, I don't always remember to do that myself!

Actually quite the contrary. You generally need to set the EV up when imaging mostly white objects. The reason is that your meter adjusts the exposure to make the metered portion gray. If you want white to be white you need to up the EV one or two.

It isn't intuitive.

But it doesn't look like that happened here so she must have done something right.

MtnMan Loc: ID

mariposa84 wrote:

yes the ISO was at 100 for all of them. br 55mm fo... (show quote)

If you click the box next to (store original) then UHH will upload your actual image. Then others can look at the EFIX data that comes along with the image to see all that data.

One way to do that is download the picture and then right click and look at properties/details.

mariposa84 Loc: Rochester NY

MtnMan wrote:

Very nicely composed, metered, focused, and executed!

The bokeh on some is very nice.

Thank you soo much you don't know how happy that makes me to see that! I'm trying to be a little sponge and soak up as much information as i can. but sometimes i question whether or not i'm actually executing what it is i'm trying to accomplish so Thank you for your comment :)

mariposa84 Loc: Rochester NY

MtnMan wrote:

If you click the box next to (store original) then UHH will upload your actual image. Then others can look at the EFIX data that comes along with the image to see all that data.

One way to do that is download the picture and then right click and look at properties/details.

Thanks i was a little confused because the text next to store original says to " Please only enable this option if you need to attach images that require high resolution versions to be kept." I wasn't sure if my pictures fell into that category so i didn't click it.
Are you saying my pictures do fall into that category?

MtnMan Loc: ID

mariposa84 wrote:

Thanks i was a little confused because the text next to store original says to " Please only enable this option if you need to attach images that require high resolution versions to be kept." I wasn't sure if my pictures fell into that category so i didn't click it.
Are you saying my pictures do fall into that category?

Yes!

It is the only way I know to easily send along the EFIX data with the pic. The downside, if it concerns you, is that people can then download your full image and do with it what they please. That doesn't bother me (see my line below) but it does bother some people.

mariposa84 Loc: Rochester NY

MtnMan wrote:

Yes!

It is the only way I know to easily send along the EFIX data with the pic. The downside, if it concerns you, is that people can then download your full image and do with it what they please. That doesn't bother me (see my line below) but it does bother some people.

I really don't care if people do anything to my pics I make no pretenses that i actually know what i'm doing and i'm sure that person is just following the nature of this forum of being helpful. Reposted the pics hopefully i did it right this time :)

MtnMan Loc: ID

mariposa84 wrote:

I really don't care if people do anything to my pics I make no pretenses that i actually know what i'm doing and i'm sure that person is just following the nature of this forum of being helpful. Reposted the pics hopefully i did it right this time :)

When you post with the (store original) checkbox checked the pictures will show up with a "download" link like this example.

Here's a flower of mine so you can see.

Right click on "(download)" to download it to your computer. Then right click on the file to get the file properties. Click on the details tab and scroll down and you'll see of what is called the EFIX data...camera, lens, and settings. I see this one doesn't have the lens information other than the mm used. Not sure why.

mariposa84 Loc: Rochester NY

i did post those other ones by clicking the store original box i don't know why it didn't work.
I also tried following your directions to look at your info and i can't see it either.

MtnMan Loc: ID

Right after you click the box click send. Do not click Preview.

This is what you should see when you follow the instructions on the downloaded file.