This week, the Picture of the Day is all about Vegas. This first picture was taken just outside of the Venetian Hotel. I loved the way the arches pull your eye through the picture.
At the end of the day at Disney with my son we were walking across the bridge that is the middle point of the parking structure. If you've never been to Disneyland, the parking structure is like setting two aircraft carriers next to each other. It's HUGE! Anyway, I stopped and told Chandler what the picture would look like because of the cars leaving the parking lot. He thought it was pretty cool. I think this was also a 20 second exposure.
As promised, here is the 2nd picture in the Candy Cotton Falls. This picture was at the same location. It was just a different composition. The main difference I want to point out is the change in the water below the falls. This picture was taken at 1/2 second exposure at f4, ISO 3200. The falls are still silky but now the water in the pool has texture to it. Let me know which of the two pictures you like better.
This week, the Picture of the Day choices are all going to have a theme in common. This week is going to be long exposure. Taking a picture at a fast exposure such as 1/160th of a second freezes the action of your subject. What happens when you take a picture of something that is moving at say 1/4th of a second or even 5 seconds? You get some pretty cool effects. Today's picture was taken at Disney's California Adventure in the "Bug's Land" area. What's cool about this picture was the whole time I was taking this picture there were two kids running around the jumping water. Because the long exposure is only recording the constants, the kids disappear. This was 10 second exposure so I could capture as many of the jumping water streams as I could.
Ok, so here is where you get to become more involved. I've decided to run a Poll each week on the Pictures of the Day from the week before. Since this was the first and I missed a couple of days, I've include the first 5 pictures that I posted. You'll find the Poll over on the right hand side of the blog. Please participate and let me know what everyone thinks was the best of the first 5 pictures. Thanks for stopping by and spending a few minutes of your day with us.
Aaron