Humans in the environment - Sarah Weintraub

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 Photo 1: Shutterspeed - 1/125, ISO - 800, F/11



Photo 2: Shutterspeed - 1/125, ISO - 800, F/11



I don’t feel the most comfortable taking pictures of random people without their permission, so I decided to go out with a friend to take some pictures with her posing in various positions. I got some pretty good images of my friend posing next to trees and looking out, but I preferred the more subtle images with something other than a human posing as the subject. I got very lucky during this photoshoot because while taking pictures a small bird (I believe it’s a Dark-eyed junco) sat on my backpack so I quickly tried to take as many shots as possible. Because my lens can’t zoom in close enough to make the bird perfectly in frame as the primary subject, but this is still my favorite photo I was able to capture because it was so perfectly representative of nature interacting with human made creations. I also liked the vines climbing the building around the window and the reflection of the tree in the window adds another element of nature adapting to humans. 


The building I was near also had great reflections of the trees and it was raining earlier in the day so there were a lot of footprints around, so the second image I chose was of the doorway with footprints leading up to it. I like how the building reflects the trees outside of it as well as being able to see me and my friends silhouettes in the reflection. I also liked the bushes outside and again, vines climbing up the building. The footprints slowly disappearing as the doorway gets closer felt almost symbolic of humanity's steps away from nature and towards reliance on man-made civilization separated from nature. Originally, this photo had the door more centered, but I cropped it so the door appears on the right third because I really liked the reflection of the trees in the window showing the nature outside of the building, and the other side of the frame was much more visually unappealing so I cropped it so more of the image was taken up by something. If there was something more appealing on the right side of the door I would’ve kept the door centered in the image, but I think this framing works as well. 

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