Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink!

Well at least I would hope you aren't planning on drinking this particular water... So today's post is gonna be about one of my favorite things to photograph, you guessed it! Water! So today we are going to talk about water in relation to your shutter speed and how you can achieve different looks with different shutters! So I don’t have a model for this post because I want you to get the idea of the water first also you would need a model whos also a statue for some of these!

So we are going to start with what you usually see from me that that’s more of a frozen in time water. For this shot my settings my ISO at 250, shutter at 1/250 and f-stop at 9.

Here comes the fun part, if you slow your shutter you can achieve a more painted look from the water with its movement so on the extreme other side you get this:

For this one my shutter was at 1/8 (Which is where the whole model standing still thing comes into play) my f-stop at 32 (remember since the shutter is lower you will have to make the f-stop higher to compensate for the amount of light you are letting in the lens) and my ISO stayed the same at 250.

Now here are some in betweens on how we got to this point:

Shutter 1/10, F-stop 29, ISO 250

Shutter 1/15, F-stop 20, ISO 250

Shutter 1/40, F-stop 14, ISO 250

Shutter 1/100, F-stop 11, ISO 250

So as I've said before water is one of my favorite things to photograph because there are just so many different options you have with photographing it! Until next time!

Lets Have Some Tea!

Ok well not really but yesterday I was up in San Antonio because I can, well actually because I was taking a mini vacation and went to Six Flags on Monday then Tuesday we went to the Japanese Tea Gardens and the mall. So first I would like to apologize for not having a post last week I was super busy with work getting ready for the wedding fair and my days got away from me.

So today I am sharing some of my pictures from the Japanese Tea Gardens with you. The place is unbelievably beautiful I wish I could have stayed longer but it was super hot and we were super tired.
There are lots of stairs there so just warning you if you have any sort of physical problem just be careful because the stairs are made of stone so they aren’t really level.

For this my camera was set to F-5.6, my ISO at 250, my shutter is what changed depending on if I was shooting in the shadows or in the sun, the highest my shutter went was1/640 and the lowest was 1/160. The brighter the spot the higher the shutter but the lower the shutter the more likely you are to catch movement so usually I recommend changing the f-stop if you don’t mind the depth of field difference. The only reason I was doing the shutter was because I only took my D5000 and its easier to change the shutter than the f-stop.

So these are some of my favorite images from the gardens, I have tons more but I don't want to have y'all scrolling forever and ever looking at pictures so here's a couple more shots, I will probably post more on my photography page as well as my personal page so you can see them there.

Sorry this post is going up late life got in the way...