Rising

Left to our own devices, photographers can be an unruly bunch. One moment you’re working tirelessly on photo edits, plotting destinations, the next you’ll be examining the life choices that brought you to the moment where you bought your first camera. All well worn roads with the photographer.. Then there are the moments everyone has left the house, the weather outside is useless, or perhaps you just don’t have the funds to drive to your next big landscape extravaganza to repeat the vicious cycle one more time. Those quiet moments at the house, you’re out of work to do, you’re not sure when your next booking is… boredom sets in. The next thing you know you’ve balance a glass of water over a light, atop a camera case, that’s un a chess set, that’s on a tray that hasn’t been stable since you bought it. Yes, us photographers can be a handful at times.

This happened almost exactly as described above, but it offers a technical challenge I wasn’t quite prepared for. Working out the shutter speed, the aperture settings, and ISO, not terribly difficult, but the composition, that took some doing. I must of reset the scene half a dozen times, did I need to? Probably not, but it felt good to work on each detail as they came. The hardest part of a shot like this is getting the focus just right. Perhaps something I will revisit, perhaps not. It all depends.

For the edit, this was tricky. How much of the background needs to be seen, how much of that will affect the finished piece.. and as it turns out, quite a bit. Still life and I have a history of getting far to complicated, far to quickly. So, balancing the various aspect of the photo without loosing the colors, or highlights took some doing, but in the end.. .I think I managed to capture some visual interest at the very least.

Until Next Time!

Aperture: f11
ISO: 800
SS: 1/200th
Focal: 134mm

Fujinon 50-140mm