I have been working through Brian Petersen's Understand Exposure book. I am to the part where we needed to imply motion by using slow shutter speed. The exercise is to make rain. You need some kind of prop. Brian suggested flowers or fruit of some sort and a sprinkler. Set your shutter speed to slow like 1/60, zoom, make sure your settings are balanced and take the picture. I got the oranges and apples out. Made Isaac hook up the hose and spray the fruit. I set my shutter speed and aperature and took multiple pictures but couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. Reread the chapter and exercise, Oh, the subject needs to be backlit, meaning the light source is behind the subject. OK, move my subject to the backyard, set everything up again and snap photos. Yes, it worked. About an hour later, it started pouring rain for real. Could it do the same thing when it is raining? Opened the sliding back door, set my camera up and started to take photos. It was difficult. I didn't want to take my camera out so choosing a subject that was backlit from the sliding door and photographing it was challenging but I did get it to work. I love being able to apply what I've learned to actual situations. It is easy when you control all the variables but when your not in control and can still produce well that is when you know you've learned something.
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