zbo2408
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So I had totally awesome light this morning to take some shots of my back yard that I have been playing in trying to make it beautiful, I have an amazing yellow Hibiscus in a pot on my patio...
My goal was to take shots of the Hibiscus in the lower left 1/3 of the camera with the rest of my yard blurry but the Hibiscus sharp.
I have a Cannon PowerShot A95 I set up the tripod, did everything totally manual, Time, Aper, White Balance, ISO Focus... I used the biggest aperture i have 2.5 or 2.8 w/e it is and set the ISO & Time accordingly. My backyard is about 75-125 feet long approx... I used manual focus I was about 1-4 feet away from the hibiscus & I could not get the yard out of focus. I took toooons of shots changing everything I could & still the yard was clear along w/ the hibiscus... Finally I put the camera right on top of the hibiscus & focused for Macro finally the yard is out of focus, now the only problem is the Hibiscus is 85% of the photo...
What was I doing wrong? Was I trying to do something impossible?
I am a noobie & I was really excited I had thought it out & knew exactly how everything was going to come out... except it didn't :/
I have not uploaded the photos to photobucket yet but will work on that asap....
Any & All advice is appreciated.
ALSO I was not shooting Raw is there any way to show the techniques I was using in the picture? I uploaded them from the C/F w/ some of the Microsoft junk on my pc... Thx
My goal was to take shots of the Hibiscus in the lower left 1/3 of the camera with the rest of my yard blurry but the Hibiscus sharp.
I have a Cannon PowerShot A95 I set up the tripod, did everything totally manual, Time, Aper, White Balance, ISO Focus... I used the biggest aperture i have 2.5 or 2.8 w/e it is and set the ISO & Time accordingly. My backyard is about 75-125 feet long approx... I used manual focus I was about 1-4 feet away from the hibiscus & I could not get the yard out of focus. I took toooons of shots changing everything I could & still the yard was clear along w/ the hibiscus... Finally I put the camera right on top of the hibiscus & focused for Macro finally the yard is out of focus, now the only problem is the Hibiscus is 85% of the photo...
What was I doing wrong? Was I trying to do something impossible?
I am a noobie & I was really excited I had thought it out & knew exactly how everything was going to come out... except it didn't :/
I have not uploaded the photos to photobucket yet but will work on that asap....
Any & All advice is appreciated.
ALSO I was not shooting Raw is there any way to show the techniques I was using in the picture? I uploaded them from the C/F w/ some of the Microsoft junk on my pc... Thx