Scattered Thoughts . . .

A s many of you who regularly read this blog already probably already read, we traveled by train to Ohio with two of our grandchildren at the beginning of this past summer.  Throughout this cross-country Amtrak journey to Ohio, Kenzie was using one of my cameras and two lenses.  She was already familiar with my little old Sony a6000 camera so that is the one I let her use on this long trip. When we went to the aquarium, she was using a wide zoom lens that has a wide aperture on this camera.  As I mentioned in a previous blog entry about this aquarium, capturing photos at an aquarium can be difficult because they are always so dark.  What made things even more difficult on this visit was that the aquarium was crowded at full capacity  making it difficult to get a clear shot but Kenzie did a great job finding interesting subjects that were nicely illuminated by light in this dark aquarium. Until we arrived at the aquarium (by foot, over one of the bridges from Cin...

W hile we were on our cross-country Amtrak journey to Ohio, Lukey and Kenzie were using a couple of my cameras.  They each had two lenses to use with their camera...  a wide zoom and a telephoto zoom.  At the aquarium, they were using the wide zoom lens with wide open apertures on each of their cameras.   Considering that both of the cameras that Lukey and Kenzie were using are about ten years old, they both did a great job in this very dark aquarium.  Aquariums are very low light which typically would lengthen your exposure time and what makes this even more difficult is the fish are always in motion which requires a shorter exposure time to freeze the motion in order to capture sharp images.  So, you need a longer exposure for the darkened aquarium but you need shorter exposures to freeze the darting fish.  Also, you need to time your shot so your subject is in some sort of light.  This is a tough place for photography and both of the grand...