Early Waters

Today I decided to get up before dawn to try and capture the sun as it was rising. So I got up and set up my camera equipment about twenty minutes before the sun was due to rise. Unfortunately the sky had mostly clouded over by the time I set up but I decided to carry on anyway.

I put the camera into manual and set the AF into manual mode as well so I could have complete control over every setting. I had set the camera up on my tripod. I set the aperture to F10 to keep the whole scene sharp from front to back. I had preselected the ISO speed to ISO 100 to keep as much detail as possible; I then completed the exposure with a shutter speed of 30 seconds. As I was using a tripod I didn’t need to worry about the long exposure.

To edit the photo, I rotated the rotated the image, and increased the contrast. Before, the image looked a bit flat so by increasing the contrast it makes the photo look punchier. I also increased the saturation to make the sky more orange and to make the photo look more vivid.

I enjoyed my early morning photoshoot, it was a pity that the clouds had set in, but I still enjoyed it. Maybe sometime soon I will go out again to try and capture the sun rising.

Mat

A Bugs Life

Today me and Bex took some set up shots with some new mirrors. On our way home we picked some dandelions to take photos of. I was taking a photo of them when I saw an ant appear from underneath one of the stalks. When I saw it I thought "I just have to get a photo of that!" I had the flash gun fixed to the camera which came in very handy in capturing the reflections on the black perspex. I cropped the photo quite close, so the ant is clear in the photo. I adjusted the light levels a bit to tone down some of the white outs caused by the power of the flash gun.

I really liked doing the set-up shots with Bex today, and we plan on doing many more with the perspex mirrors. But what of?

Mat