JayKnight Life: Running, Reviews, Photos

   So, everyone pretty much knows that I've been stalking Camaro's ever since they were re-released in 2009. Yes, I was at the New York International Auto show in 2008 just to see the Bumble Bee Camaro. I cheered for the scene in Transformers when the old-school Camaro (2nd generation 1970s) turned into the concept/ new Camaro. I yell out Camaro when I see one-- like the old punch buggy game back in the day.  Up until today I've only seen them on the street, on a dealer display floor or parked in a lot.  I rarely saw them on the road in Connecticut -- blame that on the weather. But here in Raleigh, they're everywhere. So, I walked myself down to the local CarMax to test drive one. I was full of confidence.  and ready to go. Keep in mind two weeks ago I was denied  a test drive at this same Carmax because the car was supposedly getting ready to be transferred to another Carmax.      Anyway, I'll skip ahead to today's test drive. I was stric...

 Playing with the exposure rate  (6 seconds) So, I probably won't admit this often but I'm not good at taking fireworks photos. At least not yet. You'll see from the photos below my philosophy going in.. was to bring leave the aperture alone and bring the exposure up to about 2 seconds or more.     What I found out with this camera is that even though i sent the exposure for a certain time.. the exposure time.. ended  up being pretty random. this is  a 15 second exposure. For example, the picture above was with a 6 second exposure.     The picture right below this was taken with a 15 second exposure. I missed a lot of good fireworks waiting for the camera to take the picture then save the picture to disk. All of the fireworks photos were taken on the 1600 ISO setting. I tried to use the highest fstop possible, but wound up with something between 3.5 and 5.0. I also wound up with some horrible pictures, good pictures...