From my trip to Goa in April. I thought these went rather well together. The rooster on the roof of that traditional Goan home may remind you of a weather vane, but it's not. It's made of mud just like the other roof tiles.
Other than a little bit of cropping, these photos are completely unedited. And I'm curious about why the sky looks completely white in the photos. Granted they were both taken on different days in the harsh afternoon sun, still. I was shooting on manual, so were my settings at fault? Photographers, I would appreciate your thoughts. But I do love how the white blends with the blog layout so seamlessly.
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I love those yellow frames in the first shot! Have you tried using metering techniques?It's boring stuff but it can help a lot!
ReplyDeleteboth are nice pics and expecting more pics
ReplyDeleteThank You Jidhu. Yes there will be a few more soon. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Antonella. I'm honestly not sure what metering techniques are, it's just recently that I've started shooting manual.
ReplyDeleteOh thank you for your comment. I was just trying to compose the reply to it in my head, when I had this lightbulb moment of what exactly I did 'wrong'. I shot at a pretty wide aperture (f2 or 2.5) in bright sunlight & that's probably the cause.
ReplyDeleteI do think your explanation makes a lot of sense. When focussing at wide aperture, it's very necessary to focus on something in particular & not the entire scene, right? A fancy feature of dslrs is having many focus points, but very soon after I got this new camera I found that having all of those on makes the auto focus very jumpy & unreliable for me while shooting at wide apertures so I turned them all off & just kept the centre one on, perhaps to make it more like my film slr. I do a little bit of editing sometimes, but here the normally blue sky had turned completely white, I wouldn't be able to get any blue back unless I painted it on in PS, & that's not my kind of photography.
I tried to go google and make sure my 'theory' makes sense before sharing but gahhh, when people on forums begin to talk technical, I zone out.
ReplyDeleteWhat I think is that, if you choose to focus on say the roof in your example, sometimes... it would overexpose the sky. Alternatively if you chose to focus on the whole scene instead of the roof, perhaps it wouldn't wash out the sky. Other times, it might turn out perfect even if you focus on the roof! I guess you could get really technical and get the perfect shot, but I'm just not that type of 'photographer'. Most people would take an underexposed shot and edit it on the computer, it's easier that way.