Mini air terjun

Mini air terjun, originally uploaded by afo_88.

Introduction
I believe a true way towards photography is to recognized and acknowledge the beauty of our surrounding that I believe doesn’t happen by coincidence. I believe there must be a creator who creates and take care of it; our only god, Allah.

By capturing a moment in present to view it later in the future, where that moment will become history and won’t repeat again even if we want to. So, by capturing it would we appreciate time and thought about how we would end up when our times are up?

Thinking about this would make me think about life after death.

The Camera
I currently use a standard gear of Canon EOS 40D. 2 batteries and a 67mm filter

The lens - Tamron SP AF 28-75 F/2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical (IF)

I like to use or I only have a constant maximum aperture lens that wouldn’t change your aperture size when you are zooming in and out. Therefore, I would have full control of the aperture size I want.

Some Lens doesn’t give you a constant maximum aperture; therefore as you are zooming in to a subject, the aperture openings decreases or the aperture number increases to another aperture value.

If you are new to DSLR, I would recommend you to go to several sites about DSLR to understand more on Depth of field in relation to Aperture size. Mind you that the bigger the aperture number, the smaller the aperture openings and vice versa.

The Picture – Mini Air Terjun
This picture is my first try on using slower shutter speed without any use of tripod. I normally use what I have with me at that time, my steady hands; with the help of a big hard boulder to lean at.

For this picture I need to use as lower ISO (ISO 100) as possible because the effect of using slower shutter speed would let more lights to enter and we want to overcome that by letting the sensor to be less sensitive to light.

I don’t want my photo to be overexposed by the use of slow shutter speed and I don’t want my photo to be underexposed by using fast shutter speed. I just want it to be just right. However, I want to use slower shutter speed to get that silky look of water flowing. For this picture, it is 0.8 seconds.

For your information, there are certain tricks of when to use overexposed or underexposed setting. But we will discuss this in another post.

My aperture setting would be f/32 as I want my depth of field to be as wide as possible.

And that is how I manage to capture this picture. Thank you.