August 30

Composition

All these pictures are from the internet and in no way shape or form mine.

  • This picture shows composition through simplicity.
  • This picture shows composition through framing.
  • This picture shows composition through diagonals and framing.
  • This picture shows composition through the rule of thirds.
  • This picture shows composition through diagonals and balance.
  • This picture shows composition through balance.
  • This picture shows composition through the rule of thirds.
  • This picture shows composition through diagonals and simplicity.
  • This picture shows composition through framing.
  • This picture shows composition through framing and balance.
  • This picture shows composition through framing and diagonals.
  • This picture shows composition through framing and diagonals.
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August 19

Texture

Manual, 1/1250 sec, f/5.6, 18mm, ISO 400
Manual, 1/1250 sec, f/5.6, 18mm, ISO 400.
Manual, 1/1250 sec, f/5.6, 18mm, ISO 400
Picture from www.brides.com.
This picture shows a great amount of texture. Starting with the clothes these women are wearing; the woman that is standing, has a shadow casted on her, which brings forth the texture on her shirt. The woman on her knee is quite the opposite. The texture in her shirt is almost hidden in the open.
The mountain in the background has texture as well. On the mountain, there are many trees but also openings. Even though the trees are blurred in order to focus on the couple, you can still see texture within them. Especially in the shadows and where the roads/trails appear. The mountain the couple are standing on has it’s own texture as well. It shows cracks and it almost seems as if you could feel the different bumps and rocks it holds.
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August 16

What I learned about camera exposure and camera modes.

The camera exposure depends on the aperture, ISO, and shutter speed. Mastering these three settings is an essential part of photography. Natural light is uncontrollable when taking photos, so to get around it, you have to adjust the 3 settings mentioned before.

Aperture controls the amount of light that enters the camera; which results in altering the depth of field. With Aperture, the number decreases as the opening in the lens increases. When your closer to the object you photograph, you want your aperture to be lower, and the opposite when the object is farther away. For example, f/2.0 would be used for a shallow depth of field, such as a close up of a bouquet of flowers. Furthermore f/16 would be used for a large depth of field, such as a picture of a mountain in the distance.

Shutter speed, also known as exposure time, controls how long the light is in the lens; which alters the motion blur. In other words, a faster shutter speed means a shortened exposure time, and vise versa. For example, with a slow shutter speed, 2-30+ seconds, you can take a picture of a bear catching a fish without the blur of the falling water. Where as with a fast shutter speed, 1/1000-1/4000 of a second, you can freeze a racecar as it passes the finish line. But if you want your picture to have motion blurs in the background, you’ll set your shutter speed to around 1/2-1/30 of a second. Something to keep in mind with shutter speed, is that if you have the setting at anything less than 1/60 of a second, the camera needs to be on a tripod. This is because your hands shake no matter what; which shows in the picture.

And finally, ISO controls the sensitivity of your camera’s sensor to a given amount of light; which affects the image noise. Unlike aperture and Shutter speed, a low ISO is mostly desired. The reason behind this, is that the higher the ISO, the more image noise is present in the final picture. Due to this, when the desired aperture and shutter speed aren’t obtainable, you would raise the ISO from its minimum value. The most common ISO speeds include 100, 200, 400, and 800.

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