Mistakes. We all make them. Most of the time when we make a mistake, it doesn’t work out to good. Sometimes you get a pleasant surprise. Such as the case in the photo below of Expedition EVEREST taken from the bridge between Africa and Discovery Island. I had just finished walking the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail and had my camera in Aperture Priority mode and set to it’s largest f-stop of f/2.8. That is best for taking animal portraits with and not landscapes. Well, I forgot and took this photo. I didn’t realize what I had done until later when I was on the other side of the park. What do you think? Ideally, I would have used f/11 to f/16.
Expedition Everest Telephoto Landscape.
Nikon D70/70-200VR, 1/3200s, f/2.8, ISO 200, EV -0.3, 70mm Focal Length
Using a telephoto lens, even a short one, compresses the image captured by the camera’s sensor. The compression worked here to keep the depth of field small enough to keep the image in focus almost from front to back. Remember, with my camera crop of 1.5x, this is the equivalent to a 105mm telephoto lens (70mm x 1.5). There is softness in the extreme areas and I wouldn’t want to print this any bigger than an 8″ x 12″.
Scott;
I live in New England, and went apple picking with my husband and daughter. I had been taking photos and had it set a certain way, saw a good pix of the 2 of them, and took it, then realized the setting was wrong! So, tried a re-do, but later on, saw that the one with wrong setting was better!!
So, I do enjoy this shot alot actually! Sometimes our mistakes aren’t mistakes after all, especially if we like them!! haha.
I love taking a stroll in WDW with the ‘picture this’ bloggers!! it is always wonderful, and always gives us chances to learn more and more about photog!!!
Thanks for sharing mistakes with us too….
Becky*
Scott replies: Thank you, Becky, for sharing this and for reading the Picture This! blog.
Scott-
I think your photography is wonderful and enjoy reading your blog even though I am not a photographer myself. Your photos always transport me back to my last trip to Disney and bring up all the emotions that go along with those memories. Thank you for your great work.
Scott replies: Thank you, Peg. It’s comments like this which juice up Barrie, Lisa and I to keep sharing our photography, excitement and fun on the Picture This! blog.