Chapter 1: Exposure - Photograph Architechture

[anne773]

My name is Anne and I live in McDonough, Georgia in the USA. I retired from teaching recently - spent years with point and click cameras and took lots of pictures. Now I want to learn more and really improve my skills, not just leave it to chance. I have much to learn! The first chapter really helped me absorb a lot about exposure. Nothing is automatic yet in my brain but I'll persevere!  Any suggestions are welcomed!

For this first assignment I used my Canon T1i camera and took the shot in Automatic mode. The settings were:

shutter speed- 1/200
aperture - f/7.1
focal length - 37mm
metering - pattern
flash popped on
ISO speed - 400

Here is the picture.

[goldcoastgolfer]

Hi Anne,

I've combined your two posts to keep things simple.  A nice composition you have here with the doors standing out and the bike balancing out the bamboo.  One thing to keep in mind is trying to keep the photo level - it looks like the roof line is tilting down slightly which makes me want to lean to the right a little. 

Are you happy with your photo?

[anne773]

I am happy with the photo. I tried numerous times to straighten it and could not seem to get it right. This was the best of the tries. I used the ruler tool and that straighten just did not look right, ended up cropping some of the pix at the bottom to get it straight. Any tips on good ways to straighten photos like these would be appreciated!  Thanks for your comments!

[goldcoastgolfer]

Sometimes it just happens to be the perspective we happen to shoot with and there isn't to much you can do about it. When you post a few more I'll have a look and see if I have any additional suggestions.