Down by the river

[freybear3]

I would like critique on the camera settings (EXIF) and also the colors and cropping ideas.


Exposure Program: Landscape
Date and Time (Original): 2010:04:30 09:33:52
Date and Time (Digitized): 2010:04:30 09:33:52
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
Sub Sec Time: 23
Sub Sec Time Original: 23
Sub Sec Time Digitized: 23
Color Space: sRGB
Focal Plane X-Resolution: 4438.356164 dpi
Focal Plane Y-Resolution: 4445.969125 dpi
Custom Rendered: Normal
Exposure Mode: Auto
White Balance: Auto
Scene Capture Type: Standard
Macro Mode: Normal
Self Timer: Off
Quality: Fine
Canon Flash Mode: Off
Continuous Drive: Single
Focus Mode: One-shot AF
Record Mode: JPEG
Canon Image Size: Large
Easy Mode: Landscape
Digital Zoom: None
Contrast: Normal
Saturation: Normal
Metering Mode: Evaluative
Focus Range: Not Known
Canon Exposure Mode: Easy
Lens Type: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Long Focal: 55 mm
Short Focal: 18 mm
Focal Units: 1/mm
Max Aperture: 3.6
Min Aperture: 23
Flash Activity: 0
Flash Bits: (none)
Zoom Source Width: 0
Zoom Target Width: 0
Manual Flash Output: n/a
Color Tone: Normal
Auto ISO: 100
Base ISO: 100
Measured EV: 9.12
Target Aperture: 9
Target Exposure Time: 1/203
White Balance: Auto
Slow Shutter: None
Sequence Number: 0
Optical Zoom Code: n/a
Flash Guide Number: 0
Flash Exposure Comp: 0
Auto Exposure Bracketing: Off
AEBBracket Value: 0
Control Mode: Camera Local Control
Measured EV2: 10
Bulb Duration: 0
Camera Type: EOS High-end

[Amplify-Creativity]

That's a lot of picture information.. I'm not sure what some of it means.. .but as for what I do know I would want to adjust the white balance to cloudy and tweak it for a warmer picture. Also the aperture says it was 9 and for landsape the best aperture ( atleast as far as i'm concerned) is f22 to capture allt he details and this is a smaller camera opening so it could help for not rendering the sky so white and bright. And for cropping I'd it's perfect the way it is. You could see if it looks good by cropping some of the top sky out to satisfy "the rule of thirds" a bit more. Good picture, beautiful place.