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It isn't until you see them in very bright light that you find out that black cats aren't. They're really dark brown. This fellow was relaxing in a sunbeam on a cold autumn day and so I decided to try to take his portrait. In some ways, he's every bit as difficult to capture a photo of as the white cat is!
chemical pioneer & esso brussels
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SEA WITCH / CHEMICAL PIONEER Built: Bath Iron Works, MELaunched:
1968Length: 610 ft / 190 mBeam: 76 ft / 23 mDraft: 35 ft / 11 mCrew: 40
ESSO BRUSSELS / Pe...
2 years ago
Black cats are notoriously difficult to photograph: I lived with one for a time and he was a favorite subject of mine.
ReplyDeleteI see you're using a Nikon Coolpix 950: the macro on that is so nice that I still keep it around although we've had two newer cameras (one was a gift) since and the Nikon is slow on start up and the display is impossible to see in bright light. Anyway, I usually put a note that it was the Coolpix I used for particular photos on my blog, so if you search for that word, you'll see some of my work with it.
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I have the same problem but it's for boats pictures, can you say more detail about this.
ReplyDeleteMarine marchande Webmaster
I try to point the camera at the darkest part I want to show nicely and then override the setting to open the shutter one f-stop. For white scenes, I do the opposite.
ReplyDeleteThese are rules I learnt with my film camera. The idea is that the sensor for the meter is calibrated for a photo that is 18% grey. Apparently someone did a study and found that this matched up with most scenes.
Very dark and very bright scenes are very far from 18% grey, so it is necessary to adjust the setting away from what the camera thinks is right.