DG Site Updates: 2007 Photo Contest... What camera did you use?, 0 by tombaak

tombaak wrote:
cactuspatch, Thanks! I think I owe a lot to persistence and going digital. :) The advent of digital has done wonders for my photography. Not only being able to take 20 shots and deleting the crumby ones, but being able to take a shot, look at it and take another.

And as you mentioned sometimes a shot just presents it's self to you. I love those shots! I took a picture of a Sun Dog one day that looked so fake! It was even taken on film, which I wouldn't have a clue as how to alter, but the picture just looked other worldly.

I am not sure about the rest of you but I also spend a ton of time thinking about the picture, changing angles to get a better shot, waiting for better light on a flower etc.

The picture I took of our winter squash haul was like that. I took a couple of pictures, they looked flat. Because the squash were being cured on a table on the SW side of the house I waited until late in the evening for better light, took another picture. The composition wasn't right. Moved several squash. I could still see some of the glass table through them, put some of the mini pumpkins our daughter had grown for her class in "blank" spots. And ta-da, just like that took a very nice shot. *snort* ;)

If you look close you can see a bit of the glass table, but because of the light direction, the table looks pretty dark.