Rainy Days — Hive-Chromatic Photography — My HIVE Portrait Photography Entry #2

Greetings, Hive!

Coming in with another portrait for the contest linked below. This time it is a photograph of Hive account@silver.art taken during a trip of ours. She was painting near the Achtopol lighthouse when the rain began to fall. And the paint began to run. And so did we.

Good thing it was summer and warm.

Aperture F 8; Shutter Speed 1/100 sec.; ISO 400; Focal Length 200 mm.

I shall again mention a rule of thumb when shooting with long lenses, i.e. long focal lengths. Use shutter speeds with larger numbers under the line than your focal length in millimeters. AS you can see, I haven't done that. I used only 1/100 second instead of 1/200 second at 200 mm. That would generally reduce sharpness, introduce some blur, and probably to some extent it did. But it was negligible in my case and I tend to trust my hands to hold it all relatively steady a bit more.

And sometimes this is my undoing...or at least the undoing of this and that image ;)

People are always learning. Also, people never learn.

This is my second entry to The HIVE Portrait Photography Competition.

This is also a part of my Hive-Chromatic Photography series. You can see previous issues here:

Hive-Chromatic Photography #2 — Wasps Desaturated

Hive-Chromatic Photography #1

Have a great weekend! Take care!

Yours,

Manol