a couple of shots: snow and storm...

[jkn]

I spent some time on Saturday shooting out our windows at a fairly nice little snowstorm (about 6" total). All of the shots are manual (Sony DSC-F717) - I've been gradually easing out of just shooting in aperture priority mode to making subtle adjustments to everything. This is the shot I ended up liking the best... obviously there's a window pane in the way - I wasn't in the mood to freeze for this shot... ;-)

http://johei.com/pixel/index.php?showimage=31

http://johei.com/pixel/thumbnails/thumb_20060212214346_2-11-2006%2011-35-02%20am_0018.jpg

This next shot I took last fall - I was standing on an interstate (why is explained in the text) and this huge storm was rolling in. The up the light pole shot with the clouds really looked nice - so I snapped this shot. Aperture priority, camera resting against the pole to steady it.

http://johei.com/pixel/index.php?showimage=32

http://johei.com/pixel/thumbnails/thumb_20060212215520_dsc01155.jpg

[gembase]

personnaly ,a bit less blue could make it better for the snow one! but composition is really great

[jkn]

Thanks for the comments here and on the photo directly (especially to David for what to search for... )

thanks!

[davenewt]

No worries. Need to do more experimenting myself. Need to take more photos! :)

Take it easy,
Dave.

[jkn]

I took a bunch of 'good' macro shots of an odd little object in our house against a black poster board and interesting placemat... and while several of them came out cool to me - I completely didn't notice that the entire time a stray dog hair was on the object. :-( Oh well...