Santorini Photography: White Balance and Creative Exposure

Shutter speed: 1/1250

Aperture: 1.8

ISO: 200

Today, I decided to work with what the book called, seven creative exposures. When I first read about the seven creative exposures, I thought that they would be challenging, but it is actually very easy to take seven creative exposures of the same thing. I decided to find a flower that had a background that would be easy to use for playing with different combinations of aperture and shutter speed. I found this pink flower that I thought looked neat that had a green background that looked good with it. I liked how the pink and the green when together. In the picture above, I used a very low aperture (which requires a high shutter speed) so that the background would be very blurred, but the flower would be in focused. I like the picture above a lot because the attention is all on the flower and the background isn't too busy and take away from the flower. The picture below is in the middle of the creative exposures because the edges in the background are seen, but the background is still blurry. The picture that I ended with is the one below which has a high aperture and a slow shutter speed. I don't like how in focus the picture below is because the background takes away from the flower, and the attention does not go right to the flower. The picture is just too busy. I think it is interesting how much a picture can change and have a different feel just by changing the aperture and shutter speed and making parts of the picture blurry. It was neat to play with the different exposure options to find the one that was most creative and looked the coolest for what was in the photograph. By playing around with different exposure options, I realized that it is important to considered what aperture I want to use for each picture to make certain parts of it more blurry than what is in focus.