The Lake District: Borrowdale and Scarfell Pike

These are just some pictures I took relating to my theme of the natural world; taken up Scarfell and on Derwent Water.

In this particular image you can see how the aperture/ depth of field focused on the centre part of the photo, as the tree and pebbles in the foreground are out of focus as well as the rocks in the background.

I slightly under exposed this photo in order to catch the sparkles of sun on the water. I also did the same with the photo underneath.





This photo is also good in terms of demonstrating the depth of field; I focused on the beetle on the flower in the foreground meaning the background was out of focus.






The same underneath, focusing on different objects which make up the photo affects the depth of field:

Exposure

 Exposure is the amount of light allowed to fall on each area unit of a photograph, during the process of taking a photograph. Exposure is measured in lux seconds.
If the shot is exposed too long the photograph will be washed out. If the shot is exposed too short the photograph will appear too dark. 
These pictures I took to demonstrate the effects of over and under exposure as well as some in-between:

This is the most under exposed photo; as you can see it's far too dark, but illuminates the sky so can be good for silhouettes.

This is the middle photo in the spectrum (exposure 0), where the light is most balanced across the whole image; therefore making it the most commonly used when taking simple shots.

This is the most over exposed photo, where there is too much light being allowed to fall on the image; it's where the background tends to be too bright for what's in the foreground.