Landscape

 

My first photograph was taken at the Sehome Hill Arboretum fire tower. I like how the tree on the left creates depth against the mountains in the background. For my settings I used an Iso of 50, a shutter speed of 1/3205, with an aperture of 1.6. Although I cropped some of the trees out on the left, I wasn’t able to get an angle where the tree in the middle wasn’t obstructing the mountain view slightly. Besides the trees, I think that using a narrower aperture could help sharpen the trees and the mountains further, and possibly going later in the day could help decrease the amount of shadows that are seen on the closer trees below.

The second photograph I took was taken at Marine View Park, to the right of the railroad tracks. I used an iso of 50, an aperture of 1.6 and a shutter speed of 1/60,000. I think the pile up of rocks on the left help frame the water and the islands in the background. I like how much water you can see, but the glare from the sun coming in from the right is kind of distracting. I think by going later in the day to the same location or by changing my angle I could decrease the amount of light coming in. There is also a little channel of water from behind that I wish was more pronounced. By using a better camera that can have a faster shutter speed, I might have been able to make that flowing water pop.