On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:51:41 -0700, "RG" wrote:


"John H" wrote in message
.. .
...besides the exercise and learning to cope with frustration.

These are from my local course, about a mile away.


Very nice photos, John. When looking at the EXIF data, I noticed that all
these photos were shot at ISO 1250. It's possible that Opanda is not
interpreting those values correctly, but if it is, that is an unnecessarily
high ISO value for shooting on a bright sunny day. It just invites unwanted
noise and other issues for no good reason. You were shooting in shutter
priority mode, so the high ISO setting caused the lens to stop down to as
small as f18. A lower ISO setting would have forced the aperture to open a
bit wider. I would suggest reviewing the ISO setting on your D200. It's
possible you set it to 1250 for a good reason some time ago but forgot to
reset it. My recommendation would be to set the ISO to the base level of
100 and then turn auto ISO on with an appropriate minimum shutter speed and
let the ISO float to whatever value is required for proper exposure. I
would have shot these in aperture priority mode, f8, auto ISO with a minimum
shutter speed of 1/30 second using VR. Nice composition, nuts-on exposure
and great color on these.

Russ


What I was looking for in most of these was depth of field, thus the high ISO and small aperture.
And, I was wanting to see what effect the higher ISO had on the pictures, but I didn't want to take
it all the way to the max of 1600.

I'd just finished the weekend Nikon School, which got me interested in experimenting. I'd played the
course that morning, and thought the colors pretty nice. Went back out that afternoon and conned the
marshall into taking me around the course in his cart.

Now I'm wanting to go back to Utah, or someplace out there, and take some more pictures!

Thanks for the input, Russ.