For this assignment, as a class, we travelled to the Stony Brook Greenhouse behind the Life Sciences building on campus. Our task was to take 14 images that would showcase our ability to use the manual settings of our DSLR cameras. The metadata for each image is included as a caption below it. For all my images, save for the last two which were intended to capture motion, focused on a red pepper growing in one of the bins.

The most interesting thing I found was that in order to take the images I wanted, for example deep and shallow depth of view or capturing motion, the f-stop (aperture size) or shutter speed was not the only setting I had to adjust to get the correct exposure in my compositions. This brought me back to when we spoke about the exposure triangle and how ISO, f-stop, and shutter speed all play a role in how much light comes into the CMOS censor and how that affects the images. It definitely made everything we have spoken about in class come full circle.

– J