2/20/2018 0 Comments Photo 5 ~ Macro Armed with an assortment of household objects and the macro setting on my camera, I shot photos close-up this week. Aperture: f 11.0 ISO: 400 Shutter Speed: 1/6 Editing: upped the brightness/contrast I went into this assignment with doubts. I feared that the photos would be dull, boring in comparison to the last few weeks. In the end, however, I was pleasantly surprised. For the first time, I enjoyed capturing inanimate subjects. Underneath a lens and accompanied by proper exposure, these mundane items seemed to transform. Yes, the salt shaker was still a salt shaker . . . but it was an infinitely more interesting one that it had been before. Its details -- the tiny letters, the scratches, even the flecks of rust -- popped onscreen.
This shoot was valuable in a technical sense as well. Trying to blur the background, while also maintaining light, was a nice review of the exposure triangle. 45 minutes spent manually adjusting the focus has given me a sharper eye for detail. Additionally, my dad took the opportunity to explain focus planes: when taking the photo of the book pages, I couldn't seem to soften the surrounding words, even with a large aperture. My dad suggesting using a tripod to tilt the camera at a steeper angle, thus placing the the different paragraphs on separate "planes." This worked like a charm. In my final shot, the desired sentence is in focus, while the remainder of the page is not.
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