{"id":724,"date":"2006-10-10T23:10:36","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T22:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/724"},"modified":"2013-12-01T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T14:23:04","slug":"it-pays-to-learn-to-use-your-equipment-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/it-pays-to-learn-to-use-your-equipment-p\/","title":{"rendered":"It pays to learn to use your equipment properly"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#39;ve been using my camera (a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0504\/05042201canons2is.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Canon Powershot S2 IS<\/a>) since last December and have been really pleased with the results. For night photography, I&#39;d got used to an ISO setting of 100, -0.66 exposure, and flash reduced by one or two notches, but was still suffering from a certain amount of bleaching of white areas.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend I started to explore some of the settings a bit further. I started using the ISO 50 setting, and added in a &#39;low sharpener&#39; setting. Eventually I&#39;ve settled on those two as default, and have tended to up the exposure by one notch (to -0.33). The result of this is that the night photos are somewhat under-exposed, but the bleaching effect has been virtually eliminated unless I am very close to the subject. I&#39;m able to adjust the under-exposure using gamma and mid-tone tweaks in PhotoImpact. I&#39;ve also found less need to do post-processing sharpening.<\/p>\n<p>I think the pictures are an improvement. Here&#39;s a few examples taken over the last couple of nights.<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/fox2_091006001.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/fox2_091006005.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/fox2_091006002.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/fox_101006013.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I like the last one which somehow seems to have captured a drop of saliva falling from the fox&#39;s mouth. I still haven&#39;t managed to avoid the eye-shine in some pictures caused by the reflection of the flash on the tapetum (the part of the eye behind the retina which allows for enhanced low-light vision). My main tools for eliminating eye-shine are either using the red-eye filter in PhotoImpact (but it doesn&#39;t always achieve a perfect fix). Angling the camera down at the fox works quite well though, but he&#39;s often on the higher ground (as in this photo).<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/fox_101006004.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}