In our first outing of Fall Landscapes, we spent a good deal of time talking about depth of field.  Here are two similar shots with different F-stops creating a shorter or longer depth of field:

Here are some of my shots from our first outing of the Fall Landscapes Class...

Hello, everyone - taking Barbara's class, had our first outing this morning.  I got this image of trees reflected in the canal.

 I use a Nikon D3200 that I bought last winter (my first real camera).  This picture was taken with the 55mm lens, ISO 200, f 5.6, 1/250 sec.  And yes, I edited it in Lightroom.

My passion is hunting for, identifying, and photographing wildflowers, often with a macro lens.  I blog about this hobby at http://elizaberryblog.wordpress.com/.
From April through early September I posted almost daily; now that so little is left blooming I'm posting about every other day, but please have a look and leave me some feedback. ...please?

Here's a shot of a bumblebee on wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia), on the morning of August 24:

This one I took with a Sigma 105mm macro lens; ISO 400, f 8.0, 1/160 sec.

Really looking forward to our next outing and seeing everyone's work!

Hello everyone, this is Damon of the Potomac landscape photography course @ the Smithsonian.  As a new "convert" to digital photography, my primary goal is to become more comfortable with my DSLR, a Nikon D7000.  Image quality is an important challenge for me to master and using autofocus lenses are also important to understand.  Most recently, I have used film slrs, a Nikon F100, Nikon FM (manual for nearly 35 years), and a point and shoot Nikon s8000 -- a very good camera that produces high quality digital images but as with all point and shoots it has limitations.  This is a photo I shot two years ago in Pompeii on film with the F100.  B&W photography interests me greatly and I hope to be able to use the monochrome feature with equal success as I did with film.

A few more glimpses of springtime at Great Falls (MD), the C&O Canal at Anglers, and TR Island. jill

Spring Sample

I'm winding down 7 courses this week, in addition to other work - I've really enjoyed being out with you in the morning and seeing your work.

I strayed from the Potomac a little...but not a lot.

I'm still hoping to work with a series of the first image of hepatica using focus-stacking software to create dof from near to far flowers (wind was a problem and I've tried it many times already but when I went back to Shenandoah NP, hepatica was over. I have an idea about a new approach to try but in any case I have an appt. with this plant next year.

Roosevelt Island