@Baja_Costero
Made me play some more....
Before I post the pics, let me tell you a story....
Many years ago, I got my first camera, in 1988/1989. I traded a 1969 Mickey Mantle Tops baseball card for it. At the time a great trade for me, especially for the use I got out of the camera, Pentax K-1000. But today, I'd like to have that card back. LOL
I mainly wanted to shoot macro pictures. I remember the day when I took a roll of 24 exposure film in to be processed and instead of 2 ok shots, I had 22 good shots and only 2 bad shots. The turning point of understanding how to take macro shots for me.
This was done with the help of a book, John Shaw's Closeups in Nature. That is where I learned about the f-stop and other settings to get the camera to mostly do what you want it to.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0817440526/
Looks like a readable PDF version here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0817440526/
A lot of the settings explained are relevant on today's digital cameras.
Now with digital, it is very easy to play with settings and finding the correct settings without spending lots of money on film and processing.
One last thing, shooting at the lowest ISO your camera allows, and in RAW format will give you the absolute best pics.
With RAW, you have manipulate the picture in an editing program. And of course the lower the ISO settings the longer the picture needs to be.
I never really compared the difference before of a camera processed JPEG to a RAW image. Since I never sold any pictures and they are just for me, I always let the camera process it for me in a JPEG format.
Almost sounds like an experiment is needed here.... LOL
