Exposure Bracketing

As I’ve been developing my own artistic style through photography, I have found I really like underexposing photos a little bit. The underexposed photo presented here is of course an exaggeration but I’ll usually check the light meter and bump the exposure down below a perfect light reading to get those dark, gloomy, and shadowy elements.

Highest and Lowest ISO

For the ISO bracketing, I decided to take some photos around the college radio station WUSB Stony Brook. The first image is with the lowest ISO rating and the second is with the highest ISO rating I could achieve. With both images blown up large, it becomes clear how ISO affects the image by making it grainy.

 

White Balance

These three photos were taken with three different white balance settings.

 

Stopping of Rapid Motion (fast shutter speed)

Here, I used a fast shutter speed to capture rapid motion as a still image with little to no blur.

The first image was taken while on a boat. I saw the wave coming off of the boat and wanted to capture the symmetric line I was seeing in a photograph where the left side represented the chaotic motion of the wave and the right side represented the relatively still and undisturbed water.

For this image, I was at a lake and saw the water was incredibly still. I threw rocks into the water, using the rocks as my medium and the water as my canvas. I captured multiple shots in very quick succession to show the water as it was disturbed and then the radial ripples that propagated outwards from the source of impact.

 

Blurring of Rapid Motion (slow shutter speed)

These first three photographs represent experiments I did with light, shadow, and long exposure. The first image represents my initial attempt at utilizing light as an instrument to draw with and I edited the photo to draw out and highlight the sun’s location and the deliberate shake of the camera that influenced the rest of the light. The second photo, you can begin to see vague silhouettes of trees and it was the third photograph where I really nailed it with the sunlight peering through the trees with stark definition of silhouetted trees.

 

The photos below show my initial experiments with slow shutter speed and capturing movement within the photo. I also experimented with white balance to add an almost vintage film look to the photographs to give a timeless illusion.

The photo below shows my final experiment with slow shutter speed for the weekend. I pulled over on a back country road at night and waited for a car to pass so I might capture it’s taillights as they drove by. This is one of my favorite photos to come out of the weekend and I will definitely be doing more work like this in the future.

Shallow Depth of Field (wide aperture)

Compare this photo to the same photo for deep depth of field. These photos were taken in Roscoe, New York. The first image has a hazy background which focuses on the tripod as the subject and this was acquired with a wide aperture.

This photo was an experiment with shallow depth of field on a human subject to focus on the eyes.

Deep Depth of Field (narrow aperture)

Compared to the above photo of the tripod, we can see the difference between deep depth of field and shallow depth of field. This was acquired with a narrow aperture (f/36 compared to f/5.6).

Angle/Point of View

Different point’s of view of a Grumman F-14 Tomcat