Mother Nature

f/8.0 ISO 100

It was very bright out, so I thought 100 could handle the light the best. The d.o.f. gave me pause for thought. Although I'm sure the actual depth of these clouds was in the miles, they were so far away from me that they looked very flat - rather like a painting - so I chose f/8. (I did not shoot a series using different f/stops and ISO.)

This was taken on Saturday at about 1:30 p.m. up at Marymoor Park in Redmond. The cloud formations were incredible that day. I have never tried to capture clouds, so I thought I'd give it a shot! I like the color palatte in this photo. It captures what it really looked like. In all honesty...I forgot to look at the histogram before I downloaded this to my computer!

Patterns

I liked the rain drops hitting the pond creating these circular patterns. F stop at 18 iso set at 800 shutter 1/125 sec. The histogram showed most sections being involved with it ending nicely at each side before getting to the edges. What I could do without is the shadow of the trees, I find it distracting and if I were a little taller it would provide a better view of the rings.