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I was at my sister's house, drinking some coffee when I noticed the morning was lightly foggy. This photo was the best of several efforts to capture the l...
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I was at my sister's house, drinking some coffee when I noticed the morning was lightly foggy. This photo was the best of several efforts to capture the light and the depth of field
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I took this picture in north central Arkansas at my sister' place.Time
The time was near 9:00 a.m. We had just finished breakfast and were having a cup of coffee. My brother-in-law, Don and I stepped out for the fresh air. It was then that I noticed the light from the evening had not entirely lifted so I quickly got my camera. I had never captured these conditions - misty, foggy, hazy - before so this was an effort at working with dof and the fog.Lighting
That day the lighting was nearly perfect. Other than the fog, there was little dust or other elements so the air was quite clear without any color overlay. The fog diffused the light so what was to be seen was very soft. It all seemed perfect to get this relaxing early day shot.Equipment
My camera was a Cannon Rebel Eos T3. It was my first digital camera Since this was one of my early efforts at depth of field, I probably had the priority setting set to apperture mode f5. The camera set all the other settings (focal length 59/1) except the 200 ISO. The lens was a Tamron 18-200.Inspiration
It was the circumstances and the light. I am not the kind of person usually can find a mood or story to photograph. I usually respond to Structural components in a place. It was a learning experience for me at first. I saw this potential and having wanted to work with both the depth of field settings and the fog, it was a matter of finding an effective point of view. Frankly, I walked around trying to find it that I almost lost the fog. It was the composition I was looking for. The bird house on the near post became my grounding feature; it was only after I saw the shot on my computer that I even saw either the second birdhouse or the distant obscured trees; yet both for me totally completed the photo and brought it to be the total image. And I love it.Editing
At the time I took this photo I had poor post processing skills. I have nothing with the image. I am still afraid that I would only mess it up.In my camera bag
I am a retired, total hobbiest so I only have the me Cannon Rebel and an Olympus Stylus SP-829UZ. I have the Tamron lens and the Cannon kit lens. I never use flash. I have a tripod, but almost everything I shoot is handheld, because I don't feel comfortable or confident using the tripod. I am trying to learn to use it now, but I honestly think I take worse pictures with it. I have to learn to use it yet.Feedback
My favorite poet is Wallace Stevens, who wrote in one of his poems that "the greatest poverty is to live in the world/ And not to live in the world." He says to me that we need to see, to visualize what is about us. I can't be really specific with an answer to this question. I think a better photographer would see things that I wasn't able to. They might set up a different perspective. And the they would probably have better technical skill than I.
