Rundle Mall Fountain

Today, being in Adelaide, I took the chance to photograph the Fountain in Rundle Mall before it is moved as part of the "regeneration".

Rundle Mall Fountain
Shutter Priority, shutter speed 1600, ISO 400, white balance - daylight

©Christine Linton

I wanted to try my faster shutter speeds on falling water, to get the separate drops - and it worked, I was so pleased with the results.  It was bright sunlight, soon after midday, meaning the water at the base is overexposed; and you can see the fencing behind where the work is going on.  I managed to avoid passers by which is unusual, I got lucky there.

Rundle Mall Fountain
Shutter Priority, shutter speed 1600, ISO 400, white balance - daylight
©Christine Linton

This photo above, I set the AF to 23 points, and the photo below the AF to 1 point - I can't really see any difference myself.

Rundle Mall Fountain
Shutter Priority, shutter speed 1600, ISO 400, white balance - daylight
©Christine Linton

Shutter speeds outside

Yesterday I went out to experiment more with shutter speeds, shooting down by the river, and I found that I needed to change the ISO to get better results.  I wanted to shoot the water flowing over some rocks.  I found that I had a reasonable result with the shutter speed at 1/1500th - but there was a big difference between the results before and after changing the ISO.

first try, shutter speed 1/500th, ISO 100

This was of course too dark.  So I changed the ISO to 800.

2nd try, shutter speed 1/500th, ISO 800

Better, but still a bit dim.  So the ISO went to 1600.

3rd try, shutter speed 1/500th, ISO 1600

That gave me an image true to the early evening light at the time.

I did go on to increase the shutter speed to 1,000 and 2,000, but that is another story.

Experimenting with photographing moving things at different shutter speeds, the only convenient thing in front of my armchair was the pedestal fan:  this swoosh effect came from the effect of the fan oscillating towards me when I had a long shutter speed of one second, causing all that overexposure.  But I liked the swoosh from the centre of the fan upwards!
Technical details: Shutter Priority, shutter speed one second
F8, ISO 800, AF 1 area, white balance - auto