fling93 loves fishies

Oh no! He's got a camera! Run away!

Yeah, I don’t plan on turning this into a photo blog or anything, but since I already talked about my recent exploration of some more artistic endeavors and posted a musical example, I figured I ought to post a photographic one as well.

I guess everybody who starts off getting into photography inevitably takes these generic pictures of flowers. Oh no! Run away! Run away! Yeah, I don’t think it’s anything special or that I have any talent. It’s just the culmination of what I’ve learned so far starting to come together, namely depth of field, the importance of holding the camera steady, shutter speed, ISO settings, and grain.

I had trouble getting a clean shot — everything was coming out blurry — and so I tried bumping up the ISO and shutter speed. It worked, but this introduced some grain into the shot. And I recall hearing an episode of the Tips from the Top Floor podcast that talked about how to introduce grain to add character to black and white shots, and so I figured a photo that already had grain might look better in black and white (especially since the flower was white anyway).

And so it did.

As always, you can see other pictures I’ve taken at my Flickr account. Warning! I don’t always do a thorough job of filtering out the bad shots — sometimes I dump everything on the camera to Flickr so that I can go through and filter and tag them at my leisure from multiple computers. So there’s a lot of junk in there.

And also, for anybody out there who has never met me, you can see what I look like. Yeah, I’m kinda goofy-looking. That’s why I put them fishies on the blog instead.