Still Life: Plant Portraits

This is a series of photos I took of the plants around campus.

Playing with Shadows

I took this picture while doing my first project. It is near staller. This was around 5.30 pm so the sunlight was softer but this short plant was in the shadow of a tree but the light was perfectly streaming in, lighting few of the leaves and there was a light stream right behind. So I took a few photos in various angles. I noticed the cigarette behind but I sort of left it where it was, kind of adds to the photograph. Later on, when I was going through the photos I noticed the spider web line, which was a good surprise. The thing I am happy I was able to capture was the way light streamed in, keeping half of the plant in dark and the other half in light.

Light and Dark

Location: Staller Center
ISO:200
Aperture: F/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/200

This one was taken while I was with my friend, she had to click photos for her biology class and I never pass up on a photography opportunity. So I accompanied her, while she took pictures of specific leaves. I was walking around when I noticed these two leaves in the middle of the sunlight streaming through the trees. I liked how there are two lines and the leaves are sort of in the way of one.

Shapes and lines

Location: Javits
ISO:100
Aperture: F/4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/80

Shapes and Lines II

Location: Javits
ISO:100
Aperture: F/4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/80

The next two pictures are from the greenhouse. They are both part of the same plant and the first photo I like to call it Snowflake, that is what it reminds me of.