Barn during sunset

[Jarrett]

Konica Autoreflex nT3 / Takumar 28mm 3.5 / Fuji Velvia 50

I need to invest in a graudated filter that would allow me to expose for the foreground without blowing out the sky. I think photo I exposed for the roof of the barn with a spotmeter. This was my first time shooting Velvia 50 and my first time trying landscape. I thought shooting at the smallest aperture for my lens would give me the sharpest image possible. I didn't learn about diffraction until afterwards.

It's not perfect, but it's a start.

 

[Arklatexian]

Konica Autoreflex nT3 / Takumar 28mm 3.5 / Fuji Velvia 50

I need to invest in a graudated filter that would allow me to expose for the foreground without blowing out the sky. I think photo I exposed for the roof of the barn with a spotmeter. This was my first time shooting Velvia 50 and my first time trying landscape. I thought shooting at the smallest aperture for my lens would give me the sharpest image possible. I didn't learn about diffraction until afterwards.

It's not perfect, but it's a start.

Diffraction, what diffraction? What aperture did you actually use? I don't think you have anything in this photograph to apologize for. I would probably have picked a different focal-length lens. 28mm seems just a bit wide for this scene. 35mm or even a 50mm lens but you would lose some of the effect.......Regards!

 

[Jarrett]

I shot this at F16.

 

[Ariston]

I think your photo is beautiful. I think the range helps convey mood and looks more realistic. I don't care for the flat look. In this sense, I don't think an exposure can be "wrong," unless it is not the look YOU wanted. It cracks me up a little when someone tells another photographer that their exposure or metering is wrong.

 

[Jarrett]

I think your photo is beautiful. I think the range helps convey mood and looks more realistic. I don't care for the flat look. In this sense, I don't think an exposure can be "wrong," unless it is not the look YOU wanted. It cracks me up a little when someone tells another photographer that their exposure or metering is wrong.

Thank you for the feedback. I posted it somewhere else and people did tell me that it was under exposed by 1 - 1.5 stops.

 

[mrosenlof]

I think with 1.5 stops more exposure you would have a mostly blank sky rather than the nice color gradation you got.

 

[Jarrett]

I think with 1.5 stops more exposure you would have a mostly blank sky rather than the nice color gradation you got.

You're right. I really wanted that color in the sky so I had to make a sacrifice. I've been looking at reviews for the Kase filter system. Their filters don't seem to introduce any color cast so I'm asking for those for Christmas.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

Konica Autoreflex nT3 / Takumar 28mm 3.5 / Fuji Velvia 50

I need to invest in a graudated filter that would allow me to expose for the foreground without blowing out the sky. I think photo I exposed for the roof of the barn with a spotmeter. This was my first time shooting Velvia 50 and my first time trying landscape. I thought shooting at the smallest aperture for my lens would give me the sharpest image possible. I didn't learn about diffraction until afterwards.

It's not perfect, but it's a start.

Yeah, diffraction is a 'gotcha'.