Candle Buddha

[PG07]

I have meant to take a pic of this ever since we bought it and tonight was the night.:) Being new to SLR's I am trying to learn by doing most in M mode. F/8 shutter 1 sec. 54mm iso400 tripod .C&C welcome .

[coach51]

Looks interesting, Berenice, but a larger version would be helpful if you are looking for C&C. Welcome to the forum, too. It looks rough and grainy, but that might be the texture of the Buddha. Did you do any post processing.
~marty

[MCB]

Yeah, a bigger picture might help. Your small version doesn't seem too sharp, but that could just be from the compression. Since you have a tripod, maybe ISO 100 and a longer exposure would work, too. (if you feel the ISO 400 is a bit noisy, anyway)

I did some similar pictures, but ended up having the candles out of the scene. Did you try any like that? I thought the over exposed candle was distracting. I don't mean to hijack your thread, but here is one I made. Maybe it is similar to what you were looking for (or maybe not...).

One thing that's fun to play with is painting with light. I used a flashlight during a long exposure (like 5-10 seconds... really long) and tried to paint some light on the spots I wanted to brighten up a bit more than the candles were doing. That lets you stop down the aperture a bit, too, so you have a little bigger depth of field (if that's something you want).

Anyway, it looks like yours might be pretty good, but from the small picture it's a bit hard to tell.

[PG07]

Sorry I posted the picture a bit small this one should be a bit better. I darkened the image a bit and put a little saturation into it. The Buddha itself is scratched which explains the grainy look. It isn't the best of quality for a photo but I tried to make it work:confused:
BTW Marty, I fixed my signature I'm not Bernice as I led you to believe:)

Peter

[coach51]

:oops: Yeah, Peter. That's much better. And MCB has some good advice there. I have a similar Buddha on a shelf under my desk, and it's wearing the grass-cutting hat my dad used to wear.