One Portrait Outdoors

akrab · Mar 15, 2007

This was taken this evening outdoors in natural light... I am reading my books and practicing trying to get things right in different lighting situations. CC appreciated, I welcome helpful advice as to what could be improved etc. I shot in shutter priority... I was taking different shots with different settings... this one ended up being 1/1000, f1.8, 50mm lens, -1 exposure, ISO 200, matrix metering. If I had bumped up my ISO to 400 would I have been able to get a slower shutter speed with an equivelent aperture? I bumped up the shutter speed to get my aperture away from the f22 the camera was trying to set.

This is as shot and not a cropped version in case that info is needed.

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Ellar · Mar 15, 2007

.....could tell a few stories.
Love the atmosphere, composition and light.
Thanks for sharing
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brian170042 · Mar 15, 2007

thats really nice

and i love the tight crop
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Paulo Goulart · Mar 15, 2007

akrab said:
This was taken this evening outdoors in natural light...

I just love those eyes...

akrab said:
I am
reading my books and practicing trying to get things right in
different lighting situations. CC appreciated, I welcome helpful
advice as to what could be improved etc. I shot in shutter
priority...

For portraits (and landscape, for instance), I would use Aperture priority. This will give you control over DOF.

akrab said:
I was taking different shots with different settings...
this one ended up being 1/1000, f1.8, 50mm lens, -1 exposure, ISO
200, matrix metering. If I had bumped up my ISO to 400 would I have
been able to get a slower shutter speed with an equivelent
aperture?

On the opposite, it would get you higher speeds...

akrab said:
I bumped up the shutter speed to get my aperture away
from the f22 the camera was trying to set.

Good. Run away from those numbers, especially on portraits...

I prefer something like f5.6 or f8 (depending on the lens and distance to subject), but sometimes, loke in your photo, even f1.8 can give you a good result.

akrab said:
Photo Hobbiest Teach me well, I love to learn!

Keep shooting...it's the best way to learn (I believe)

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Ant in Oz · Mar 15, 2007

akrab said:
This was taken this evening outdoors in natural light... I am
reading my books and practicing trying to get things right in
different lighting situations. CC appreciated, I welcome helpful
advice as to what could be improved etc. I shot in shutter
priority... I was taking different shots with different settings...
this one ended up being 1/1000, f1.8, 50mm lens, -1 exposure, ISO
200, matrix metering. If I had bumped up my ISO to 400 would I have
been able to get a slower shutter speed with an equivelent
aperture? I bumped up the shutter speed to get my aperture away
from the f22 the camera was trying to set.

This is as shot and not a cropped version in case that info is needed.

Bumping up your ISO would cause a faster, not slower shutter speed.

With a tight crop like that you probably want more DOF not less so I would stop down to 5.6 or 8. This will also bring your shutter speed down.

Ant.

goldy · Mar 15, 2007

A haunting photo, and I mean that in a good way!!!!
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kim kaila · Mar 15, 2007

STunning Alison! I can only hope to get photos this great!!!

Do you mind me asking how you get the camera info to show in the photos? I take photos, but once on my computer I have no idea and I never remember what setting/mode/ISO whatever I shot them in. I ordered the 50mm lens, but will not get until Monday! I have had the D50 for 2 days now!

Very nice photo!
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hottamale · Mar 15, 2007

Your daughter's face is likely to become famous if you keep this up!

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Ant in Oz · Mar 15, 2007

You can see it in properties in Photoshop et al. Also, do a search for Opanda. You can use this to right click (in the browser or explorer) and view exif data.

Ant.

ajay67 · Mar 15, 2007

the only point that i missed is why you choose shutter priority when all you want to do is to get away from f22? why can't u choose aperture priority instead? you sure got very far away from f22 (to f1.8!)

anyway it's a great potrait, so that counts the most

akrab · Mar 16, 2007

2 younger children that move a lot so I have been practicing in shutter priority to prevent motion blur... it works

I have had better results when shooting them in that mode.
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akrab · Mar 16, 2007

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D70
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Nikon 55-200mm f4-5.6
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akrab · Mar 16, 2007

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D70
Nikon 50mm f1.8
Nikon 55-200mm f4-5.6
SB 600

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akrab · Mar 16, 2007

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D70
Nikon 50mm f1.8
Nikon 55-200mm f4-5.6
SB 600

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akrab · Mar 16, 2007

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D70
Nikon 50mm f1.8
Nikon 55-200mm f4-5.6
SB 600

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akrab · Mar 16, 2007

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~~Alison~~
D70
Nikon 50mm f1.8
Nikon 55-200mm f4-5.6
SB 600

Photo Hobbiest Teach me well, I love to learn!
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akrab · Mar 16, 2007

(I shoot in RAW) it displays each pictures details. Also I use Opanda exif viewer (which is free) to also view the exif info. Hope that helps.

Thank you for the nice comments

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~~Alison~~
D70
Nikon 50mm f1.8
Nikon 55-200mm f4-5.6
SB 600

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bitao · Mar 16, 2007

The quality of this photo motivates me to try to improve my photo skillls even further.
tks for sharing
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Bert_v_k · Mar 16, 2007

Great portrait. Those eyes really come out right.

I would love to take a picture like that sometime

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max99 · Mar 16, 2007

Wow, what beautiful eyes. You really have a gift for capturing the beauty of the eyes. You really are shooting some beautiful images!!
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