Saturday, September 26, 2009

"Flying Goose"

This photograph of these geese were taken on a clear and crisp Saturday morning at Riverfront park in Billings,MT. I took this photo with a Canon Rebel XSi camera with the dimensions of;

(TV) Shutter Speed:1/640
(AV)Aperture Value:F8
Exposure Composition:0
ISO Speed:1600
Focal Length:400mm
Long Exposure
Narrow depth of field
Shooting Mode: Aperture priority AE

Photographer: Amanda Strong

"Motionless Tress"

I took this photograph with a Canon Rebel XSi at Riverfront park in Billings,MT. This picture was taken on a clear and crisp Saturday morning. Some of the dimensions of this particular photo are;
Shooting Mode:Shutter priority AE
(TV)Shutter Speed:1/500
(AV)Aperture Value:F5.6
Exposure Composition:0
ISO Speed:800
Focal Length:55mm
Short Exposure
Wide depth of field
Photographer: Amanda Strong

"Motion of Water"


This photograph was taken with a Canon Rebel XSi camera at Riverfront Park in Billings,MT. I used these dimensions for this picture;

Shooting Mode: Shutter priority AE
(TV)Shutter Speed: 1/800
(AV)Aperture value:F5.6
Exposure composition:0
ISO Speed:1600
Focal length:187mm
Short Exposure
Wide depth of field

I took this picture in the early morning when the air was crisp and on the banks of the Yellowstone river at Riverfront park.

Photographer: Amanda Strong

"Narrow Depth of Field"

This photograph was taken with a Canon Rebel XSi at Riverfront park early in the morning on Saturday. The morning was crisp with calm water.
Some of the dimensions of the picture are; shooting mode: aperture priority AE
(AV)Aperture value: F5.6
(TV)Shutter speed: 1/80
Exposure composition: 0
ISO Speed: 1600
Focal length: 400mm
Long Exposure/Narrow depth of field
Photographer: Amanda Strong

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

"Photographing this weekend"

Photo #1: Birds in flight
- 1/500 seconds
-Short exposure
-F8
-Wide depth of field

Photo #2: Movement of water
-1/2000 seconds
-Short exposure
-F4
-Narrow depth of field

Photo#3:Movement of water
-1 second
-Long exposure
-F16
-Narrow depth of field

Photo#4: Photographing Trees
-1/8 second
-Long exposure
-F4
-Narrow depth of field

Amanda Strong

"Beautiful Flowers at Mt. Rainier"

This photograph was taken at Mt. Rainier National Park in August 2009. The picture was taken in the afternoon on a clear sunny day. I used a Olympus digital underwater camera to take this photograph.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

"Depths of fields and Exposure Time"

The depth of field in photography consists of four basic steps;
Step 1: correct your lens aperture
Step 2: your lenses focal length
Step 3: the subject distance
Step 4: the film size

After playing with your camera you can choose if you want your photo to be of a narrow depth or wide depth of field. There is one main difference in these two depths, to capture a photograph in narrow depth of field the picture should be out of focus of blurry. On the other hand, to capture a wide depth of field photograph the picture should be in focus and be clear.

Being a photographer means that you should know the difference between short exposures and long exposures. A short exposure means a fast, rapid moving picture is taken with a short timing period. This allows for the picture to be in focus and less blur. A longer exposure or a longer timing period means that the picture should be pretty blurry.

For more information on "Depths of field and Exposure Time" I would highly recommend going to these websites:
And the other website:

Amanda Strong