Originally posted by CWRailman I really like your shots. Can you share some info about the first one. What metering mode were you using and what were you metering for? In other words what decided your exposure?
What aperture and shutter speed and ISO?
Are these JPG or RAW. If RAW what sort of adjustments were made?
I like the contrast. How was that achieved?
Hi, thanx for your interest.
i used centered averaged metering, since the light was pretty harsh outside,
i took the exposure of the railroad, lower part, kept the metering then composed the whole picture.
I'm using mostly Aperture priority,
exifs are on the picture on flickr.
f3.5
5mm
1/125@125 isos.
the original is in jpeg (even if i'm using raw most of the time, sometimes i switch to jpeg, like that time, when i forgot to clear the sd card) , color,
then develloped through lightroom;
I like contrasted black and whites since film era, so i created some presets to suit my needs.
Indeed i tend to work against that tendency that i have to pump contrast way too much.
These shots were mostly some testing of a recently acquired 02 Std, as the Q is like a photographic notepad to me, indeed a lot of shots i made with have a render that i wont get on my K5.