Experimental Camera settings, and some Nice Shots

The Window Views

A little grey jay. They love the pole and looking in, as if to say hey it is food time? I like these little birds they are not as flighty as some and will hang for a few seconds while I try to get pictures.

f/5.6 - 1/1600 sec - ISO-800 Taken on Tuesday the 9^th

From My Amazing Wednesday

The next few I was experimenting with the auto settings on my camera, and was using the scene setting and landscape. Since the camera did all the work I will forgo leaving the settings for these few.

This is a slightly zoomed in shot of my driveway. I may end up re-using this shot for a "Story from a Picture" post. I do have an idea for a short, just have to think on it some and decide.

The view from the same window but looking to the left slightly. I actually kind of like how the camera picked the settings. I did crop a little bit, and lifted some of the shadow to see the trees in the background a bit better, but I think the auto function did a nice job on the setting for this shot.

My driveway viewed from on high. Now on this one the camera picke the settings also, however I did do quite a bit of post processing on it. I took out the well head and the post that the birds love to sit on, and a small satellite dish. using the clone tool. I think the edit came out nice and looks natural from a non zoomed in look.

Those three were taken in the early afternoon, I needed to do something because I was awaiting my record making day. I was going to become a Dolphin that day, and along with that I had a record breaking payout day also. So I was pretty excited.

Later that day we had to go on a milk run and I got that beautiful shot of the Lily lake, while there I was also able to get a nice close up of a bee on a dandelion.

You can zoom in pretty good on him in peakd front end, but here is a pre zoomed in shot of just the bee pretty much.

I still really like the surprised bee picture I got later that evening at home of the spider catching a bee. That was really an amazing end to an amazing day for me.

Well that does it for my wickedly amazing Wednesday pictures. It was a good day and one I will remember for some time to come. however all is not over.

On Friday evening we had a couple of visitors. The sun was gone well behind the trees, and it was pretty overcast with some lifted fog, but at 10 pm these two decided to hunker down for the evening in our yard.

While mother moose is in pretty good focus the baby moose is not quite as sharply focused. he looks like a little stuffed long eared plush toy out there. The ISO was way up there at 2500, and I had to hold the camera pretty steady at a speed of only 1/250 sec. Still it came out a bit grainy being zoomed in almost all the way. I could not use the flash because that would have had the two of them up and booking for the trees, and we like seeing the moose so we try not to disturb them when they visit.

Over all I think I had a pretty nice week from Monday to Friday, and I hope the coming week is full of more nice surprises, they are always fun.