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Week 2: Texture

Shutter Speed: 1/100 — A 1/100 shutter speed worked well to take into account both the dim lighting and the movement of the water.

ISO: 800 — This allowed for the colors to still be prominent so as not to lose the texture of my skin and the bubbles. Unfortunately I couldn’t go much lower without the photo becoming too dark.

Aperture: F3.5 — Because of how far away the camera was and that my hands were very close to the water, the depth of focus was not a major priority. An f-stop of 3.5 worked well in this this shot due to it allowing more light into the photo.

— White Balance: Custom

My idea for this shot came when I was staying late after work for the third night in a row. I work the closing shift in a deli and on the nights where we’re understaffed, I’ll sometimes end up doing dishes for hours straight just to play catch-up. I felt like this sort of shot would be great to use to represent a “self-portrait” with this weeks theme.

Week 1: My Favorite Place

Shutter Speed: 1/50 — Slow enough to compensate for the small aperture but still fast enough that the photo isn’t blurred by wind on the tripod.

ISO: 800 — Any lower and the photo would have been too dark. Any higher and I feel like the colors in the environment would’ve been diminished.

Aperture: F11 — Because of the steadily dimming light and dark colors of the landscape, i was limited to how high I could go, but I chose a higher F-stop to try and get more of the landscape and myself in focus.

— White Balance: Custom Since I didn’t have a white paper with me, I decided to use the conveniently placed snow that was all along the mountaintop.

About a quater-mile off exit 2 on the Interstate is a trail that leads up to a mountaintop from which you can see nearly 30 miles around. On one side of the mountaintop is the amazing views of a good chunk of the entire County, and on the other is a steep downhill leading to Lake Hawthorne.