Just thought this was a neat shot...

There might have been a better angle, but the texture of the peeling paint just caught my eye. This is the bottom of a fire hydrant.

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The shot is good. If the peeling paint texture was your objective though, you should increase your DOF to get as much of the hydrant and peeling paint as you can in focus.
What kind of lens did you use and what aperature ?

Also did you use a tripod or some kind of lens support ? If not, always try to use so you can shoot with a smaller ap and longer shutter speed to get that DOF.
I realize it is quite close to the ground though.

Dave

Tv (Shutter Speed)
1/500
Av (Aperture Value)
9.5
Metering Mode
Center-weighted averaging
Exposure Compensation
0
ISO Speed
200

The lens is a Tamron 20-300 LD Aspherical Zoom set at 300mm. I didn't have a tripod with me, but that would have been nice.

I have to agree with the previous post about the depth of field.

1) It seems that the bolt head is the focus of the picture, not the peeling paint.

2) Note that the paint in the shadow is in focus, yet difficult to see, and the paint that is farther away is out of focus, yet easily seen. Perhaps using a fill flash, might yeild a better image.

3) Have you considered putting the bolt head on the right side, rather than the left. We would loose the shadow'd in-focus peeing paint on the right side, but since we can't see it, we wouldn't really miss it. It might pick up something interesting from the street.

As an interesting personal note, when I went to school at Rochester Institute of Technology in the mid- 80's, taking pictures of fire hydrants was something a lot of the 1st year students liked to do. In fact they liked it so much, that the professors outlawed the use of a fire hydrant as a subject in a photo. This picture brings back memories

Mike

Anders,
Welcome. I believe redbutt was using a Canon D30 with a Tamron zoom lens set at 300mm. So aperature settings will depend on what interchangeable lens is used.
Please post some of your photos sometime soon. We would like to see life as you see it through your Canon G1 in Sweden.

Dave