Over the weekend I went to Seattle for a little shopping and while Sheila was browsing bead stores (she makes amazing jewelry), I took pictures around the stores. At our last stop I was playing with small apertures for some landscapes (f/16 to be exact). I wasn’t really getting what I was looking for so after shooting a few other things, I decided to take a picture of an interesting light pole on the street and got this:
Well “wow” was the next thing out of my mouth.
I have been playing with motion blurs and trying to do them in full manual mode and having a tough time with the exposure settings. This was in aperture priority and well I was amazed at the results.
Yes, if I had taken a class, read more, asked around more I would probably have learned this sooner, but I didn’t I discovered it by accident. I think discovering things by accident is way more fun, even more satisfying than just being told how to do it. Now I have more insight into how to compose and take pictures. I understand a little more about the balance of ISO, shutter speed, and aperture. Now I’m ready to experiment more.
Here is a slide show of the whole motion blurred set from that street:
Tomorrow is BlogActionDay and I intend on doing a photo essay on the subject of poverty. I’m not going to wander to the Downtown Eastside either, I’m going to look for poverty in the places where you wouldn’t expect it.
That will certainly be fun.
