im getting tired of winter

[bribrius]

come on spring.....
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[bribrius]

and yeah. i know. the photos are dim. i cant shoot snow worth a damn.. And the house picture all the focus went on the tree, instead of the house. i couldn't quite figure that out but didn't want to take the time to bother im snow grumpy looking at my boats covered in snow still.

 

[bribrius]

hmm. i wonder if the house picture did that because of the focus setting i have the camera on.. i should go look.

 

[BillM]

Got another foot of snow last night

 

[bribrius]

Got another foot of snow last night

yeah. twice in three days (maine). More coming this week. im trying to find the energy to get functioning. i need to go plow out and shovel the deck at my mothers house. no rush, no one lives there it sits empty usually she spends most of her time away. But if it builds up too much it going to be a pita. Probably already two feet over there. im kind of happy i don't have a lot of customers for plowing snow anymore. Im pretty sick of snow in general. i really just want one of those boats on the lake and the other dropped in the harbor.

 

[BillM]

My sister has a B&B over by Ellsworth.

 

[bribrius]

My sister has a B&B over by Ellsworth.

don't look at me im not plowing it out. I've done my share. LOL!!!! I probably saw it before though and don't even remember. Not from there but been there. And good for her that is kind of neat.

 

[Designer]

hmm. i wonder if the house picture did that because of the focus setting i have the camera on.. i should go look.

I think the camera's focus sensor(s) lock onto the area of highest contrast (such as an edge) in this case, the edges of the tree. And AFIK, the closest area of high contrast as well.

So: either select and very carefully aim a different focus point, or just focus manually on the house.

As for exposures in snow, you have to add in a little + exposure compensation. Weird, right?

 

[bribrius]

hmm. i wonder if the house picture did that because of the focus setting i have the camera on.. i should go look.

I think the camera's focus sensor(s) lock onto the area of highest contrast (such as an edge) in this case, the edges of the tree. And AFIK, the closest area of high contrast as well.

So: either select and very carefully aim a different focus point, or just focus manually on the house.

As for exposures in snow, you have to add in a little + exposure compensation. Weird, right?

totally correct. it was on center focus in auto. Target finding (multipoint) and manual both turns out better. Soon as I saw your post I tried it again paying a little more attention. I hardly ever use auto, and this might be part of the reason. It just naturally picked the tree on its own accord to focus on because it was closest and center I guess.

 

[bribrius]

you know? I should probably spend more time using the camera I have correctly and paying attention to what im doing. My photos would be a whole lot better. I really put very little thought into it before I hit the shutter release, to my own downfall. If im going to keep thinking so lazy and narrow minded I might as well just leave it on auto and forget upgrading to a better camera since I don't use the one I have correctly the majority of the time. I don't even know why I just took the house picture above without giving it a thought, I just really didn't give it any thought.

 

[Designer]

Don't beat yourself up. I have yet to explore all the features of my camera and I've owned it for four years.

 

[bribrius]

Don't beat yourself up. I have yet to explore all the features of my camera and I've owned it for four years.

oh, I knew it was there. just to lazy to check and not paying attention. And I do stupid things constantly like that with photography even when I know better. I totally deserve the self bashing. Going out later, do the snow stuff. Think I might take some photos too or video. Question is... of what. suppose I can video tape plowing snow or take pictures of more snow covered trees or some asinine thing...

I took fifteen night shots of kind of a city scape the other night. deleted them all. forgot the tripod, couldn't get good long exposures. Also couldn't get the camera to focus in and keep the noise down. They came out like crap. And parked on the side of the road with cars driving by, my patience started to go down hill.

 

[William75]

Winter makes me crazy! Irecently travelled to Europe to my new girl from Ukraine (we met at romancecompass), everything was great but the weather... it was too cold! I felt as I were somewhere at the North... terrible

 

[vimwiz]

The problem with snow isnt nececerially AF its metering. You need to step down 1 stop or so by using your exposure compensation feature when shooting backrounds of bright snow/beaches. Thats what the manual of my (Manual focus, Apature priority) camera says. So do this, or use spot metering instead of CWA.

 

[EIngerson]

Pssssst. (whispering) There are places to live that don't have "winter".