Playing with the Rebel Xti

I needed some photo therapy tonight so I headed down to the property. I have been avidly reading my photography books and wanted to try out a few things...

I love how photographers make running water look smooth...

Tonight I was attempting to do this...I honestly should have gone down earlier as I was losing daylight...but the above photo is one of several that I took. We are in a drought right now and our creek is running slow, really slow and really low...I also used a polarizing filter to cut the glare on the water. Below were the settings I used:

Shutter Speed 4

Aperture Value 32.0

ISO Speed 800

Lens EF75-300mm

I gave up on the creek as the lighting down there was awful and moved up to the fields. I had problems there as the wind was blowing and everything was moving...just not a good night for photo therapy! The photo above is a Bull Nettle bloom, remember the ones you do NOT touch, lol I did crop the photo but other than that have not touched it...I had a UV filter on the lens and the settings were: ~ Shutter-Priority AE ~ Shutter Speed 1/125 ~ Aperture Value 5.6 ~ ISO Speed 800 ~ Lens EF28-105mm Focal Length 83.0 mm

I forgot to adjust my ISO speed from when I was down at the creek, ugh!! Silly me!

This is a common sunflower and I just love the itty bitty ant on it. Which mind you I did not see until I got home and brought the photo up on the computer. I once again had the UV filter on the camera and the evening sun lit the bloom up beautifully. I did not touch this other than to crop it! The settings were: Shooting Mode Shutter-Priority ~ Shutter Speed ~ 1/250 ~ Aperture ~ 4.5 ~ ISO Speed 800 ~ Lens EF28-105mm ~ Focal Length 105.0 mm

That is all the photos I had, it just wasn't a good night for the camera.