Spring Time is Here

For this photo I decided to use portrait mode. I felt it would work best to get a good nature photo. Spring had just arrived and what better way to show it than a picture of newly grown buds. Spring is the season of growing so I felt this would represent it perfectly. For this photo the f-stop is 5.6

Manual Focus (same f-stop)

For the photos in these posts, I played around with the shutter speed and left the aperture the same. This means the speed in which the photo was being taken would change and the opening would change the same.

 The shutter speed for this photo was 1/400 which was actually pretty slow. This is why the photo is really bright. The slow shutter speed allowed for more light to come in. A slow shutter speed means a brighter photo.

 As for this photo, the shutter 1/640 which is slightly faster than the previous one. It allows a lot of light to come in as well which is why its look really white and bright.

The shutter speed for this photo is 1/4000 which is actually really fast. Its actually the fastest the camera will go. This is why even though the photo is still bright its better than the other two above.

Manual Focus (same shutter speed)

For this post I got to work with the manual focus on the mode dial. For these photos I kept the shutter speed the same and played around with the aperture. For each photo I kept the shutter speed at 1/1000.

 As for this top photo the f-stop was 5.6 This made the shot brighter because it caused more light to come in. As a matter of fact it was too bright of a photo.

 For this photograph the f-stop was 25.0 This photo came up to be darker than the other because less light was allowed in. As mentioned before the shutter speed was the same for all three photos.

The f-stop for this one is 32.0 for this photo. Naturally this means a lot less light was allowed to go through which is the reason for it to be very dark. Because the Shutter speed is fast and the aperture is high that means its given less time to let light in and the opening is small.

Fast Shutter Speed

In order to get this photo of a hat flying in the air, I had to have a fast shutter speed. The shutter speed 1/1000 which meant it would be really fast which was perfect for the shot. I had my camera set on shutter priority as I took it. I also had my friend throw my hat up so I could capture it in the air.

Slow Shutter Speed

The f-stop for this photo was 1" so it wasn't that slow. I expected the photo to turn out better but I realize my error was in the speed in which the people were walking. I figure that the person was walking faster than I expected which caused her to just look like a ghost. You can still see the movement of the person walking around while the other model stands perfectly still.

Using Aperture as a Tool

For this photo I had to take a photo using the aperture skills we learned in class. I wanted to get only the foreground, the person, in focus and the background out of focus. In order to do that I needed a low f-stop and a large aperture. That way I would have a low depth of field. The f-stop for this was 5.6

This photo also has a small f-stop and large aperture. This causes only the foreground to be in focus. I really wanted to blur out as much of the background as possible. The f-stop for this photo was also 5.6

Aperture

For this photo I had to test my skills on aperture. For a larger depth of field so that a lot more things are in focus I need a large f-stop. A large f-stop means that the opening is smaller. The f-stop for this photo is 18. 

This photo had a smaller f-stop (5.3). The opening was a lot larger than the opening of the photo before. As you can see in the photo not much of the photo is in focus. I used a tripod for both photos.