Thursday, July 15, 2010

The Japanese Gardens

This week in class we went to our first location shoot at the Japanese Gardens in Phoenix and I had WAY too much fun.

Since there are many waterfalls at The Gardens, our instructor asked us to focus on shutter speed and discover the effect it has on the appearance of moving water. I did plenty of that, as you will see below, but considering we got there at 5:30am to get the good light, I couldn't help but take some shots of the sunrise as well. :)

Here are some of my favorites from the day.

f3.5 SS 1/4000 ISO 100


f16 SS 1/8 ISO Exposure +0.67


f5.6 SS 1/40 ISO 100


f18 SS 1/4 ISO 800 - The high ISO explains the fuzziness of the picture. Next time I will focus on not moving ISO away from 100 if I don't have to.


f5 SS 1/100 ISO 1600


f7.1 SS 1/200 ISO 100 Exposure +0.67


f32 SS 1/4 ISO 1600 (again, the high ISO is causing my shot to come out a bit fuzzy, I need to work on this) Exposure +0.33


And here are some great examples of the effect that shutter speed has on moving water:

f10 SS .3 (very slow) ISO 100


f5.3 SS 1/13 (a little faster) ISO 100


F5.3 SS 1/80 (pretty fast) ISO 800


f5.3 SS 1/125 (fast) ISO 800

2 comments:

  1. Nice! My favorite shots are #4 and #5. Did you do any color correction work on #5? Just curious. :o) That place looks awesome... never heard of it. I'll need to check it out, for sure!! :o)

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  2. Thanks Jen!! Yes, I did some color correction to all of them actually... I just really really like bright colors so I almost always end up brightening the colors up a bit. You should def check out the gardens they are an awesome place to shoot! I will go with you if you want, I would love to go again :)

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