Hi Duncan,
I used aperture priority at the widest my lens would allow to avoid increasing the ISO and due to insufficient lighting. The 2nd image, I used a more narrow aperture because the depth of field was too shallow. Everything was mostly out of focus at 2.8.
Regarding image 3910, the correct orientation is portrait. I’m not sure why it turned sidewards, but I was initially having trouble uploading them to this site. For some odd reason, the orientation for the images are correct on my laptop.
When you referred to cropping, do you mean ‘cropping by editing’ or ‘too close’ as in composing of my images? I’m now realizing-I was actually too close!
Thanks,
Maxine