Photowalk 56: Afternoon Light And Underexposure

Rather unusually for me I took a nice late afternoon walk today, enjoying the warmer weather and softer light.

Nothing spectacular, just some good exercise and lots of fresh air.

Monks Walk

Today I really started playing around with exposure compensation, namely underexposure. Being late afternoon the light was quite soft, and I used my polarizing filter to enhance the sky, but I wanted to explore the world outside what my camera thought would be a correct exposure.

Ducks

The above is an example of this. The icy moat was very dark, so the camera wanted to brighten everything up, overexposing and losing detail in the ducks. Using Aperture Priority Mode, I used Exposure Compensation to dial in almost 2 ev, but it brought out the birds plumage quite well.

Priddys Hard

Hmmm. This one looks rubbish in my browser - lots of banding in the sky. It looks fine on my monitor in Elements, but I guess there's just not enough detail in the greys. Pity, as I like the look of the moon.

D95 HMS Manchester

Not the sharpest of photographs, it's pushing my little S5700 at this focal length, but by under-exposing again, more details can be seen on this old Destroyer.

Containers

I'm not sure why I like this one.

Allez Oops!

Thanks for looking at my photographs, I think I need a really early shoot soon.

Cheers, Rob.