Category Archives: Photographs

Windmill, Accidentally

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A windmill with purple, blue and lavender skies

I don’t remember it looking that way in person

This is an unaltered photo. Is the sky really that color? No, not even in stormy weather in central Texas. How did it happen? It happened because I was taking photos indoors at B&B Quilting & Gifts and, having just learned how to change the White Balance on my camera, I had it set to Incandescent. And forgot to change it back to Cloudy when I left the shop.

I saw the dark clouds and thought they made a nice contrast background for the windmill. The blue, white, and violet contrast nicely, don’t they? A happy accident.

Motion Blur (2)

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Turns out my photography instructor also thought that my first Motion Blur submission was overexposed, so I returned to the streets for another photo session. Here’s what I turned in from my second effort. I managed to get the clock in focus and the vehicle blurry.

A photo of the Buda City Hall clock in focus and a vehicle driving by in a blur, which was the desired effect.

Late to work?

Photo properties:
f/8
1/10 sec exposure time
ISO-2500
5 Max aperture
55mm Focal length
Spot metering mode

Motion Blur

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I am taking a photography class, trying to learn how to use the manual settings on my camera. Let me just say that in doing so, I am taking A LOT of bad photographs. I took my camera to a quilt show this weekend and even though the quilts were stationary — just hanging there — I came away with many blurry or badly exposed photographs. I mean, how hard can it be?

Our homework assignment was to create motion blur using shutting speed; this is what I turned in. I wanted the yellow Auto Works sign to be in focus and a vehicle blurred. Although it was a very cloudy day, I think it is a bit overexposed.

A blurred red vehicle driving by a yellow Auto Works sign and the sign is in focus.

They went that-a-way

I ate lunch at a sandwich shop and after finishing my meal, I sat at an outside table for a while taking my motion blur photos. A couple of employees came out on their break and teased me about doing undercover work. I assured them that I was harmless and explained that when I wanted an in-focus subject, it was blurry and when I wanted something blurry, it was in-focus. No one would hire me for surveillance work, that’s for sure.

Photograph properties:
f/36
1/10 sec exposure time
ISO-200
5 Max aperture
Spot Metering mode
55mm Focal length