Focussing on Objects

I had a busy summer but finally I am back and good, over the summer I took a great deal of photos with my D80, many of which I experimented with focus. The advantage of a DSLR is often you can focus easily on exactly you want to focus on using manual focus on the lens ring. I find this extremely useful in some of the photos I take, and I often leave the camera on manual focus because I think it can often give a better photo.

A (Chestnut?) horse

A poppy I found in a field during the holidays

A field of wheat showing the depth-of-field of the settings I
was using

Grass Shot

Hi everyone!

I haven't posted much in the past weeks, but here is a nice shot I took of some grass that I thought I'd share with you. I hope you like it, and I should be able to get back to my normal posting schedule next week (hopefully!)

A vibrant photo of some grass in a rockery

Beach Huts

I'm sorry I haven't posted up many photos this week, but the picture below I took yesterday with the D80, but I've modified it with the histogram in Paint.NET. It's been interesting working with the software, because previously the image was slightly overexposed, but shooting in RAW makes it possible to recover some detail that would be lost. I'll probably be working with Paint.NET over the next couple of weeks and I'll see what I can do.

The photo of these beach huts was very slightly overexposed, but it has been edited to recoup some of the detail

Night Shots

Yesterday evening I managed to take the D80 out to try out some long exposure shots of cars and lights. It took a while to get set up, but after a while I managed to get the right settings for the light conditions, and got some fairly decent photographs (I think anyway!). Here are a couple of the best ones, let me know what you think. :)

The moon through a thick layer of cloud, taken with a
telephoto lens. 

Some cars on an intersection with a telephone box
in the background. I like the yellow indicator flashes myself.