Shutter-Priority Mode

a1-15

a1-60

a1-500

a1-15

1/3

c1-15

c1-60

c1-500

c1-15

1/3

Aperture-Priority Mode

af5.6

af11

af22

af5.6

1/3

ef5.6

ef11

ef22

ef5.6

1/3

Reflection

I felt like this week's assignment was much more challenging than last weeks. I found it extremely difficult to take photos that fulfilled both the assignment and met the bar I set for myself regarding creativity. Most specifically, I found it challenging when focusing on shutter-priority to capture anything outside of water in an artistic manner. In comparison to week one, It almost felt as if I had lost the freedom of being able to photograph what i want. I certainly had no problem compiling an assortment of images at Devil's Hopyard in East Haddam. Yet, when attempting to photograph moving cars I struggled to find a place with a suitable back-drop. Although the images produced met the requirements of the assignment, I did not care for the setting in which they were taken. I feel like if I had a little more geographical understanding of the area I live in, I would have had a better idea of where to go in order to photograph moving vehicles. Another issue I seem to encounter repeatedly in shutter-priority mode was my 1/500 shots coming out too dark. At the time of the shots, I wasn't aware of the darker images being produced because I had a hard time seeing the screen on my camera. Essentially this ruined a few of my groupings. I'm eager to learn how to possibly avoid that from happening during this weeks class.

Two Best Photos

It wasn't hard choosing my two best images this week. Although I feel I could have chose multiple pairings, these two photos stood out the most to me. I enjoyed shooting photos of the waterfall in East Haddam. It was a place where i felt the longer I was there, the better my photos would have got. I continually found different angles that seem to produce better images over time. I truly prefer the effect's a higher shutter speed produces. Yet, I chose an image of the waterfall that was shot in a slower shutter speed because it resembles what you may see on a post card. The blurred smokey effect the water has just looks amazing to me. The other image I chose is that of a panic button in the campus parking lot. This shot was taken right before my English 102 class on Wednesday night. It was a spur-of-the-moment kind of shot, I simply glanced at it and decided to set my tripod up really quickly before class. I certainly did not expect it to turn out the way it did. It's quite intriguing to me how some of the simplest shots can be immersive.

Two Not-So-Good Photos

These are the two images I chose for my worst. I don't feel like these photos are particularly bad by any means, they just didn't fulfill my expectations after getting home and unloading my card. I was using the goat to focus on aperture. The problem I ran into was he kept moving his head which tended to blur some of the images a bit. As for the truck, the reason I didn't like this photo, or any photo I took of a vehicle for that matter, was because I didn't really care for the back-drop. I thought the old broken down house would provide for a good compositional setting within my photos but I suppose the angles I chose just didn't appeal to me in the end.