Landscape Photoshoot - Alex

 

I took these photos during a winter hike I took this week in place of our field trip ( I am absent ). In general I feel these photos are relatively good in terms of the scenery and landscape, but the major flaw I see is that the landscape itself carries these photos and is what makes them ‘good’ photos. My lens does not zoom, so trying to accurately capture what the mountains look like in the background and also capturing the colors of the sky behind them was difficult. The second photo I like a bit more, though I think that the details of the mountain ( Mt. Baker ). Are missed because the photo is more focused on the tree off to the side. If I had moved more into the snow in the center and shot the mountain with less of the tree in the right third of the image I think that I could have captured those details more, even without a zoom lens. This also means I would have had to increase my f stop because of the excess of bright whites around me. The third image I had focused too much on the fire tower also in the right third of the image. My shutter speed was a little bit slower in this image, and so it was a little bit blurrier because I didn’t have a stand. The image itself is a little darker than I would have wanted it, and because of that the lower hills and mountains, as well as the clouds below are not in full light or easy to see. This is also because they aren’t in focus, but if I had taken it of the hills below I would have needed to make the image much brighter anyways. Overall there are a few things I would have re done to these images had I had the opportunity to retake them, but I am happy with how they came out.