Black and White Photoshoot - Sarah Weintraub

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 Photo 1 - Shutterspeed - 1/500, ISO - 100, f/8






Photo 2 - Shutterspeed - 1/100, ISO - 800, f/8




I chose the first photo because the river acts as a great leading line for the photo, leading into the skyline and the clouds create a nice pattern that works well in black and white. When taking this photo, I wasn’t thinking about turning it black and white as much as the subject and composition of the photo using the river as the center focus leading out into the landscape. I decided to crop it in a way that has the river cross into the left third of the photo rather than how it was originally taken with the river in the center of the image for the sake of framing and making sure the entirety of the photo is taken up by something interesting to look at. 


The second photo was taken with the hopes of getting a good picture of the seagull, as they were all moving around quite a lot, with the background pattern of the water to help it stand out. I also made sure the bushes in front were a part of the image to create some depth of field. I cropped this image to put the seagull in the bottom right point using the rule of thirds, because before I cropped it a majority of the image was taken up by the water and the bird was much smaller and not the subject of the image without zooming in. I think this photo looks better in color because it creates a brighter and more saturated dynamic with the green of the bushes and bright blue of the water, but the patterns, depth of field, and the bird placement helps make it an interesting photo regardless of color.


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