Fighting Fire
This chilly weekend we decided to light a fire in the fireplace and this provided a great opportunity for me to experiment with my camera in an indoor setting. I really liked the idea of trying to get good shots of fire, but fire doesn't cooperate! It was still a great learning opportunity and warm unlike the outdoors. I took photos at all stages of the fire from the initial lighting through the end when it was starting to die down. I tried auto settings, Scene, Aperture priority and ART settings. The challenges included: Focus With moving flames I found my camera's auto focus kept trying to focus on the logs rather than the flames or the back of the firebox. Sharpness When I did get it to focus on the flames, they were fluid and interesting but often not as sharp as what I was seeing with my eyes. Some of the settings that did add sharpness sacrificed color intensity in the flames. Composition I found I was focusing my attention on so many things that I forgot to think a