Mundane Monday October 12, 2009

Been busy over the weekend pulling the last of the vegetables from the garden. We picked about 1 1/2 dozen pumpkins and squash. This was a bumper crop and if we had growing weather for a few more weeks, we might almost double the crop! Snipped off the dahlia blossom too, and that's where we find ourselves with a camera.

The first shot is P mode, no flash, nice diffused light from behind. It's a little dark, but not bad. I popped the flash, full power but I underexposed the shot -.7 stops. It's washed out, just too bright for a great composition.

 

There's also annoying reflection from the flash off the window on the right. Flash diffusion may help us out. Since I was using the pop-up flash, and I couldn't find any old film cans, I resorted to a translucent caontainer lid. I think it worked great.

A soup container lid from the Chinese restaurant saved the dahlia photo from ruin.