Tuesday, May 14, 2013

6 Correct Exposures and White Balance


Reading Notes Option 2

When I first started conceptualizing this project, I knew I wanted to capture the texture of the lime and the orange.  I also wanted to play with the bright colors and put them against a contrasting background color.  I found a beautiful teal chair that i wanted to work with.  After I found the chair set and the table they were with, I knew I wanted the victorian texture of the leg of the table to be what was in the background of my orange and lime.  In the first picture my aperture is the lowest; it was set at f/5.6.  As a result of this, there is very little detail in the texture of the leg of the table.  In my photo with the highest aperture (f/16), the leg of the table is noticeably more in focus.  You can actually tell what the texture is.  At f/8 and f/11, you can see the detail slowly becoming more and more recognizable.    



ISO: 400 
Shutter Speed: 400
Aperture: f/5.6
White Balance: Cloudy

The exposure of this photo is "correct."  The lime in the foreground is in focus and the blue pole in the background is much more out of focus.  This is because my aperture is set so low.  To keep the correct exposure but change the depth of field, I moved my aperture up and my shutter speed down.




ISO: 400
Shutter Speed:  200
Aperture: f/8
White Balance: Cloudy

The exposure of this photograph is still considered "correct", yet the pole in the background is more in focus.  
ISO: 400
Shutter Speed: 100
Aperture: f/11
White Balance: Cloudy

Again, this exposure is "correct", but, yet again, the pole is even a little bit more exposed.
ISO: 400
Shutter Speed: 60
Aperture: f/16
White Balance: Cloudy

The pole in the background of this photo is the most in focus out of all of the others.
ISO: 400
Shutter Speed: 100
Aperture: f/5.6
White Balance: Shade

This white balance is set at shade.
ISO: 400
Shutter Speed: 100
Aperture: f/5.6
White Balance: Incandescent

This picture has the same exact exposure as the one before it.  The reason that the color in this one is so much bluer is because the white balance is set to incandescent.

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