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A.D.H.D. is surprisingly useful, I find, when it comes to spotting photographic subjects. Take this for example: my plan for today was to drive to the community college, get some architecture photos there, go down the street from there to get a dead-trees version of this photo, , grab some batteries for cheap (a 24 pack of AA batteries for $2.99!!!) because my wireless mouse died in the middle of an awesome Call of Duty match, visit my sister up at Western Michigan University, go to Asylum Lake for some natural light photo practice, and then head home (yay for run-on sentences).
What ended up happening was me driving towards the community college, pulling an e-brake turnaround when I saw this fence, park, get 20 minutes worth of photos; go to the O Avenue photo location to find that there was tree work being done within the view of the photo, thus ruining it; get to the community college to give up when the lighting wouldn't work at all for me; go to the hardware store for batteries, a new pocket knife, and a survival knife; visit my sister at WMU, and having to convince her that I refuse to join the marching band for next season due to the fact that I have NO musical talent; going back to Asylum Lake to give up in the middle of rush hour traffic; go back to the university; go to a cheap movie theater and buy tickets for the midnight showing of The Hobbit (!!!), and head home. I only got good photos from the fence, which was the direct result of my A.D.H.D.
I was amused by the thought.
Anyway, I liked the autumn feeling of this, so I did my best to capture the crazy wood grain, and it turned out... unexpected, but likable.
Settings (This was in broad daylight on a perfectly clear day, so they will be a bit funky):
Aperture: f/4.8
Exposure: 1/1600"
ISO-250
Metering Mode: Pattern
Manual focus
What ended up happening was me driving towards the community college, pulling an e-brake turnaround when I saw this fence, park, get 20 minutes worth of photos; go to the O Avenue photo location to find that there was tree work being done within the view of the photo, thus ruining it; get to the community college to give up when the lighting wouldn't work at all for me; go to the hardware store for batteries, a new pocket knife, and a survival knife; visit my sister at WMU, and having to convince her that I refuse to join the marching band for next season due to the fact that I have NO musical talent; going back to Asylum Lake to give up in the middle of rush hour traffic; go back to the university; go to a cheap movie theater and buy tickets for the midnight showing of The Hobbit (!!!), and head home. I only got good photos from the fence, which was the direct result of my A.D.H.D.
I was amused by the thought.
Anyway, I liked the autumn feeling of this, so I did my best to capture the crazy wood grain, and it turned out... unexpected, but likable.
Settings (This was in broad daylight on a perfectly clear day, so they will be a bit funky):
Aperture: f/4.8
Exposure: 1/1600"
ISO-250
Metering Mode: Pattern
Manual focus
Category Photography / Still Life
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 848px
File Size 116.8 kB
I love seeing the detail of the grain in the wood. I tried drawing things like this as a kid (having grown up on a farm with wood fences like this being very prevalent) and while I aspired, I never met the goal. But damned if you didn't catch what was in my mind when I was trying!
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