In my effort to get all this photo lingo to stick in my head, I am trying to take some pictures that are not in one of the auto modes. I have been learning mostly ISO, aperture, and shutter speed this week. When Drew’s college friend was in town for the weekend, we took him to FSU campus for a walk down memory lane. I took my camera along in case I saw anything picture worthy.

We strolled to the front of Westcott, in front of Ruby Diamond. I saw the popular fountain and instantly thought, “Shutter speed!” I decided to take some different shots at different shutter speeds in an effort to try “freezing” the water droplets and then showing the water flow.

Unfortunately, I forgot to change my ISO to a lower setting, as the last time I had taken pictures was inside, in a low-light situation. I was thinking that in shutter speed priority mode that the aperture and ISO would be automatically set. Only aperture is automatically set. These shots would have probably turned out better with the right ISO setting, but oh well. I learn as I go. They still turned out kind of cool.

I set the first one to a slow shutter speed (1/30). This one was the one that would have benefitted the most from a lower ISO (I think). Too washed out.

So I bumped the shutter speed to 1/250.

Then 1/640.

Then 1/1600.

Then 1/4000.

You can see a bit of a difference in the water droplets. The faster shutter speed (last pic) has more droplets, while the first (visible) pic is more of a water flow. I also found it interesting how each picture got progressively darker. I suppose it’s because with a slower shutter speed it’s letting more light in. Or maybe it’s something totally different.

Thanks for letting me nerd out in photography.