Thanks, this is helpful.
The copyright thingy is an automatic-did I make my settings here to show it? Do I have a choice of where it goes? (I agree with you).
I think in spring I will play around with this tree if it makes nice cones again.
The shot was at 5 pm in April, so nice light, very windy day. 1/800sec f3.2 ISO 200 105mm Macro lens.
To eliminate the sky, I could put a piece of cardboard or something there (the lower dark is a fence across the yard).
To increase the depth of field a little, I could change the aperture a little, and would still be able to stop the action (it was a very windy day).
It is interesting, I sometimes use the camera on the automatic setting, but for garden and flower photos they are overexposed, often by 2 stops.
I might darken the photo a bit by using a smaller aperture by even one notch, and then use a reflector to fill in (I bought reflectors this summer, have not started playing with them yet, still mostly taking 'snapshots'.
ps this is a jpg file at 13.2 MB, it took forever to load, and sometimes the website 'chokes' on ones that big. What is a useful median file size for this webside? I assume the ones that won't get big here if I click on them are ones in the 1-2MB range? Is there a thread about this topic somewhere?
