After chasing whales for hours, taking their pictures, I realized that most of the pictures I took look the same. I needed something different and interesting. Here, I took a picture of people on a separate tour on a different boat looking for the whales. Even though the main focus in on those people on the boat, my eyes naturally move toward the middle of the picture, at where all those people seem to be looking. Maybe, that's where they saw the whales last. Or maybe, they saw the shadow. Maybe, their tour guide directed them that direction. I can make up a lot of stories from this picture. (Nikon D7000, Sigma 150-500mm at 150mm f/9.0, 1/500, ISO = 400) The reason for this weird set up is that I was shooting moving whales, so that the high shutter speed was needed and long tele zoom was left on.
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Nowadays, cameras are so smart. They adjust the setups to different occasions by themselves. When shooting in dark, they automatically brighten the image, for example. Here, however, I didn't want the camera to be too smart. Normally when shooting in dark (like when you are indoor), a smart camera would brighten the image automatically so that most of the things in the pic are visible. If you use your "true" auto setting, your smart camera pops out its flash and artificially brighten the image. Here, I wanted the back ground to stay dark or darker than usual so that the subject pops out in the dark background. I used the "manual" setting so that I can manually adjust the exposure compensation. In this picture I decreased it all the way to -2. Because my son's crying face was lit by the direct sun light, the compensation was perfect for the subject. I decreased also the shutter speed to 1/400 to freeze the baby's movement. (Nikon D800E, Nikkor 24-70mm at 70mm. f/9. 1/400. ISO = 200)
I took a photo tour in Alaska and our instructor told us not to erase any pictures in camera, not until you upload them on your computer and look at them in the bigger screen. You never know what you would find. This one didn't look great at all in my 3-inch camera display. It's obviously out of focus and blurry. The shutter speed was to slow to freeze my son's movement for the picture to be nice and crisp. But, when I saw this on my computer screen, I liked it. The blur indicates motion and reminds me of my son transitioning to be more active. This picture now is a keeper. It tells the story. (Nikon D800E, Nikkor 28-70 mm at 34 mm, f/2.8, 1/40, ISO = 280, taken in JPEG)
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