Photography, and my Camera

Now, this blog isn’t all supposed to be about technology and robotics, is it? Let’s take a break from all of that and go into another hobby of mine: Photography.

 

The camera I currently own is a Canon EOS 6D DSLR, featuring a 20.2 megapixel full-frame sensor, an ISO range of 50 ISO to 102400 ISO, and continuous shooting of up to 4.5 FPS. Now, this camera is awesome. To the left is a picture of it, with a stock lens.

 

Yep, she’s a beauty. Let’s take a look at some photos I took with this camera. First off, to the  right is a shot taken in normal, fairly bright light conditions (all of these pictures are minimally edited).

I took that picture with ISO 1600, at 1/400 exposure, with f/4. As you can see, the image is neither blown out nor too dark.

Next up is a macro shot, also taken at ISO 1600, with f/4 and exposure 1/400 sec:

Even though I did not use a macro lens for this picture, the detail in the design was still captured sharply. Even in the slightly over-exposed areas to the right, the small holes in the subject are evident.

Now, to show this camera’s performance in low-light environments, I snapped a shot in a very dark room, with only a sliver of light coming in through the door. I used an ISO of 100,000 and an exposure of 1/10 seconds. The result is to the right.

 

Lastly, I decided to take a picture in an exceedingly bright place, I took this last shot of a tree outside during winter. The ground is covered in snow, and it’s really sunny out, so I had to go down to ISO 100 and exposure 1/500 sec. Taken with an F-stop of f/4, this image shows clearly the contrast in the bark of the tree, while blurring and fading the over-exposed regions of snow in the background.

Photo Credits: Radu Vasilescu via Canon EOS 6D