-Photographing Sunsets for Teens-
-Aperture-
Let me paint you a picture. It’s eight thirty pm on summer night; you look out the window as the sun begins the to set, and the photographer inside you screams “golden hour!” and “time for a picture!” You grab your camera, and rush down the hill to the lake the breeze tousling your hair, and the golden hour glow making every thing look magical.
I shot this picture with an aperture of 13, an ISO of 2,000, and a shutter speed of 1/320. Were as the photo at the top of the page was shot with shutter speed of 1/400, an aperture of 18, and an ISO of 5,000. How I like to think about aperture is the higher the number the more that will be in focused and defined, but the image will be darker. The lower the number the less that will be in focus and less defined, but the image will be brighter. In other words aperture controls your depth of field, the higher the number the more depth of field you have, the lower the number the less depth of field you have.
Same Night, Different Perspective.
One other thing I want to mention is look around! When your photographing nature especially, there is always a different angle, perspective, or lighting you can harness and turn into a masterpiece! This picture on the left was taken the same night as all the other ones, but as I was sitting taking pictures and watching the sunset, and looked up and realized that there was another perspective I could shoot from. Don’t settle for inside the box pictures, think outside the box!
Wherever you are. Wherever you go. You can find beauty in Gods creation.
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