Camera Modes

Macro

Macro is used in this close-up shot to bring out the texture of the barnacles by selecting the focus closest to the camera, while some elements of the background can still be made out. 

Landscape

It is no mystery why I used landscape mode here for this smoky wide-angle shot. A small aperture is used, and therefore the depth of field is maximized.

Shutter Priority

By manually lowering the shutter speed, the passing cyclist is highly blurred while the rest of the scene is clear, creating the effect of them traveling at an extremely greater velocity than they actually were. A slow shutter speed can also help conceal the identity of a passerby, useful in shots in crowded areas where one does not wish for faces to be visible, without the obvious post-production black boxes or oval blurs.

Aperture Priority

I chose to manually adjust the aperture here because I wanted to blur the background more so than I could in macro mode, bringing even more focus to the spider web’s intricate lines, reducing clutter. 

Action

Practically the opposite of what I did in shutter priority mode, I used action mode to properly catch the moving cyclists more clearly and in focus, which is useful in quick shots where you want to be able to make out a fast-moving subject, thanks to an increased shutter speed.
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3:2 photographs shot with a Canon Rebel T7i unless otherwise stated16:9 photographs shot with a Sony FDR AX-53
Photographs shot for Aaron Witzke's Photography 9-12 Class at Esquimalt High School.