Week Four Photo Assignment:

Automatic Setting:

 

 

Manual Setting:

I chose these two photos as the best of my seven photos for this week. The top picture was taken in automatic, the bottom was taken in manual. The auto setting used a small aperture at f/8, with an exposure time of 1/400th of a second. In the manual setting photo, I chose a larger aperture at f/3.5, with a faster exposure at 1/1600th of a second. ISO was set at 100 for both photos. I feel that the automatic picture works better for this scene because of the even tones, and nice, blue sky. The manual picture is too dark in the barn/shadow area, and gives the picture too much contrast. If I were to redo this assignment I would definitely use a tripod to make direct comparisons easier, and to keep composition consistent. I would also choose manual settings closer to what the automatic setting did on its own. I can learn from the automatic mode by observing what the camera chooses to do. Another thing I would do is change the time of day I took the photo at, so the barn would not be in, or casting a shadow.

Here is a link to the series of photographs I took at the railroad:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/140059785@N05/