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Landscape Storytelling

Ever wondered why we’re called the Snake River Plane? Well, this week I decided to find out! For this week’s photography journey, I went to explore the St Anthony Sandbar.

Despite it being called the sandbar I found nothing but snow and ice. We had -21 degree weather earlier in the day and had snow so high it was at my thighs, but perhaps photography is about the ✨friends✨ we made along the way??

I choose my subject to be the black pipe/drain.

Welcome to St Anthony Sandbar!

Photo Collage Of all 9 perspectives
Humanizing the harsh winter scenery
Sunrays glisten on the snow, and steam can be seen rising from the unfrozen parts of the snake river
A wide landscape view of what used to be a fitness corner, now flooded with snow
Icicles are found forming on the bottom of the pipe
Footsteps walking toward the pipe show how much snow has piled up
I crawled into the pipe to get an inside view, and nearly tumbled down
A side view, showing the ridges found on the pipe
The warm leaves contrast very vividly with the blue skies
A view of the frozen snake river
The Texture that was used was old crinkled paper to simulate the harsh weather not seen visually but felt physically
The overlay that was used
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Creamy Bokeh vs Sharp Depth

This week we explore APERTURE! High aperture vs low aperture, creamy shallow dept bokeh vs tack sharp photos. “Dept of field” can be easily manipulated with the use of the camera’s F/. Shallow depth ranges from f/2.8 – 5.6 while deep depth ranges from f/16 – f/22.

This week I was blessed to have my cat as my primary model to capture shallow depth of field. Her name is Alakazam and she’s still a little baby so go easy on her. I got her from the Idaho Falls pound and as you can see she is not camera shy at all.

This week has been terribly cold! To avoid going out, I focused my shallow-depth shots indoors as the lower aperture allows me to have less light for my shots.

A high aperture requires more light so I had to begrudgingly leave the comforts of an A/C and shoot some crispy shots.

Shallow Depth

Alakazam – 1.21.23 – 4:37 pm – Windsor Manor, Rexburg – 50mm – f2.8 – 1/100 sec – ISO 12800 – Sony A7iv – (24-70GMii)
Smoky Records – 1.23.23 – 4:37 pm – Windsor Manor, Rexburg – 24mm – f2.8 – 1/60 sec – ISO 100 – Sony A7iv – (24-70GMii)
Alakazam – 1.21.23 – 4:37 pm – Windsor Manor, Rexburg – 50mm – f2.8 – 1/160 sec – ISO 4000 – Sony A7iv – (24-70GMii)

Deep Depth

Crispy Leaves, Snowy Skies – 1.20.23 – 1:37 pm – BYU-Idaho Hart Building, Rexburg – 24mm – f22 – 1/10 sec – ISO 400 – Sony A7iv – (24-70GMii)
City Parking – 1.20.23 – 3:07 pm – 125 E 2nd S, Rexburg – 80mm – f16 – 1/80 sec – ISO 800 – Sony A7iv – (70-200GM)
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Snip Snap, I gotcha: Motion Photography at work

This project has been a blast! I spent the week working with high/low shutter speed photography. Shutter speed not only has the ability to stop time and capture all the action but it is able to slow time as well, telling a strong through the blurs and flickers of light. The exposure triangle really taught me a lesson or two this week! Shutter speed not only influences motion but light as well. In each photo, I hope to delineate to you the story I captured and how the shot was taken

Blurry

Devoted to devotional: 1/17/23, 12:11pm, BYU-I Center, 35mm, f/22, 0.4 sec, ISO 100, Camera: Indoor Lighting (SONY A7IV, 24-70GMii)

I left a few minutes before the devotional ended and dashed to the top floor to capture this photograph of all the students leaving the devotional. This story tells a tale of the experience of being a faithful student at BYU-I, making time for our heavenly father while conquering the rigors of higher education.

The City Lights: 1/15/23,8:14pm, S 1st West St, 24mm,f/16, 25sec, ISO 80, Camera Lighting: Moonlight/Lampost (SONY A7IV, 24-70GMii)

The night before a holiday means the city is embracing the holiday weather. This is commonly the busiest street in Rexburg. In this photograph you can see how busy and bustling this intersection is, It took me a while to get this photograph as it took multiple trial-and-error shots to get the exposure right.

Tact Sharp

Snow Fight: 1/16/23, 3:19pm, Stone Brook Apartments,70mm, f/2.8, 1/2500 Sec, ISO 320, Camera Lighting: Natural Light (SONY A7iv, 24-70GMii)

High shutter speed captures every particle of snow as it hits its target. The high shutter speed not only captures the snow but also all the embarrassing facial expressions found in a snowball fight. High shutter speed results in less light being captured, to avoid dark photos shot with optimal lighting. To combat the light I decided to shoot at 3pm when the sun is at its peak.

Snow Blast: 1/16/23, 3:13pm, Stone Brook Apartments,70mm, f/2.8, 1/2500 Sec, ISO 320, Camera Lighting: Natural Light (SONY A7iv, 24-70GMii)

High shutter speed shooting requires the shot to be precise to help this I enabled drive mode so that I am able to capture multiple frames of the snowball exploding on my friend’s hand and pick and choose the most optimal one. Framing is also very difficult as during a snowball fight there is a lot of movement.