Santorini Photography: 2013

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Final Project

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Blue/Green/Night (Reading Notes Option 2)

Shutter Speed: 1/640

Aperture: 7.1

ISO: 100

Shutter Speed: 1.6

Aperture: 5.6

ISO: 100

Shutter Speed: 1/50

Aperture: 5

ISO: 100

Shutter Speed: 1/3200

Aperture: 4.5

ISO: 200

Shutter Speed: 1/60

Aperture: 10

ISO: 100

Reading Notes Option 2

Today, we had to take pictures where we used the "Sky Brothers," "Mr. Green Jeans," low light and night light pictures. The pictures I found the most difficult were the night time pictures because such a low shutter speed was necessary to get a clear picture. I have tried taken night time pictures before and have not been too successful because I didn't use a tripod and so I moved the camera so the picture turned out blurry. Even if I felt like I held still, the picture still ended up looking a little blurry. Today, I attempted to take a night picture without a tripod, and it did not turn out well. I then set my tripod up and the picture improved a lot. I didn't change much for the settings between the two pictures but the tripod made a huge difference in the picture quality. Night and low light photography is tricky because the shutter speed that is necessary to make a good picture is super low and a tripod is needed. The other thing we had to work on was "Mr. Green Jeans." For this, the camera needed to be metered for the green and the meter needed to be set to -2/3 and then the picture was to be recomposed and the picture taken with the settings for the green even though when the picture was recomposed the exposure meter said that it was not set correctly and that either the shutter speed or aperture needed to be changed.

Athena and Arachne (Greek Myth)

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Front/Side/Back Light

Shutter Speed: 1/4

Aperture: 5.6

ISO: 400

Shutter Speed: 1/400

Aperture: 8

ISO: 100

Shutter Speed: 1/250

Aperture: 11

ISO: 400

Shutter Speed: 1/400

Aperture: 10

ISO: 200

Shutter Speed: 1/400

Aperture: 10

ISO: 200

Monday, May 27, 2013

Dog Shelter

Shutter Speed: 1/125

Aperture: 6.3

ISO: 200

Shutter Speed: 1/100

Aperture: 4

ISO: 200

Shutter Speed: 1/125

Aperture: 7.1

ISO: 100

Shutter Speed: 1/250

Aperture: 9

ISO: 400

Shutter Speed: 1/400

Aperture: 5

ISO: 200

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Hillary

Shutter speed: 1/160

Aperture: 7.1

ISO: 100

Shutter speed: 1/160

Aperture: 7.1

ISO: 100

Shutter speed: 1/500

Aperture: 5.6

ISO: 100

Shutter speed: 1/640

Aperture: 5.6

ISO: 100

Shutter speed: 1/1000

Aperture: 5.6

ISO: 100

Decisive Moment

"Heading out to sea"

Shutter Speed: 1/200

Aperture: 11

ISO: 100

"A day at the beach"

Shutter Speed: 1/200

Aperture: 11

ISO: 100

"Getting ready to open"

Shutter Speed: 1/250

Aperture: 9

ISO: 100

"Working hard"

Shutter Speed: 1/250

Aperture: 13

ISO: 100

"My ball"

Shutter Speed: 1/200

Aperture: 11

ISO: 100

"Blown Away"

Shutter Speed: 1/200

Aperture: 11

ISO: 100

"The finishing touch"

Shutter Speed: 1/80

Aperture: 5.6

ISO: 400

"What are you doing?"

Shutter Speed: 1/400

Aperture: 5

ISO: 100

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Portraits

Shutter Speed: 1/60
Aperture: 11
ISO: 100

Shutter Speed: 1/160
Aperture: 11
ISO: 100

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Panning and Street Photography, Reading Notes Option 2

Shutter speed: 1/30

Aperture: 25

ISO: 100

Today, I tried to do some panning and used what was in the book to do so. I knew that for panning, I would need a slow shutter speed so that the background would blur but the subject would still stay in focus. I found a street where the cars were going fairly quickly and decided to try some panning on them. Panning was a lot more challenging than I thought that it would be. With such a low shutter speed and because I was shooting in the middle of the day, I had to have a very high aperture so that my exposure would be correct. The subjects of my picture needed to be in focus, so I had to make sure they were in focus, start moving my camera at about the same speed they were going, and then click the shutter to take the picture. It took many tries to get the panning right and I ended up with some pretty awful pictures where everything was blurred. The pictures I ended up with did not have quite as blurred of a background as the pictures in our book, but I think they still make the cars look like they are moving faster than they really are. The most challenging part of panning was getting the vehicle to me in focus, but the background blurred.