andreas_sullivan

I was lazy enough to go outdoor and take some pictures. Anyway, while

at home, I tried to be creative, I searched around the house, things

that could be a good subject to photograph. One of them was this CD

and Pen. Tell me what you think......

Nice composition....

But the washed-out sky is really annoying.....maybe if you put polarizer, you can darkened the sky a little bit. Or maybe you could crop off the sky when you compose the image.

The lighting situation was very tricky. The sky was awesome, I really wanted to record it in my photograph, but I wanted to put in some buildings too......

I metered the area using spot meter, first I metered at the bright sky, and second I metered at the building. I knew the differences was beyond the limitation of my film. So, I took the middle way, I calculated the exposures, and made an intelectual guess of the exposure settings, so here it is.......

I put the sky on #1 priority, and sacrificed some building details.

I was walking around North East Portland with my trusty N70 in my

camera bag. I had no plan to take picture, I was just getting into a

habit of carrying camera everywhere I go. I was waiting for my bus,

when I saw the light was VERY WILD !!! What I mean wild...is really

really really WILD !!! The sky was very beautiful. I run accross the

street and find a good spot to take some pictures. I was dissapointed

that there were many obstacles around (trees, buldings, etc), my hope

to get the best exposure of the day was gone...and my bus just

passing by.

I got back to bus stop and waited for another bus. Suddenly my eyes

struck on a bunch of flowers that was glow beautifully...I knew I

would get a very good exposures and composition. I run across the

street again for the second time, and composed a composition for the

flowers. I saw my bus was coming, and I only had one chance. I

quickly metered the scene, stop down one stop to increase color

saturation, and took only one exposure, then I run back to catch my

bus........