Dark Room Reflection

My adjective for this project was "serene." I chose this word because this is the word that best describes my neighborhood. There are a lot of trees, hills, and mountains that remind me of serenity and calmness. I definitely tried and I think succeeded at portraying this adjective through my photos. However, in most of my photos there were heavy contrasts between the whites and the darks and I wish that I had more of a greyscale in there to show more serenity within the nitty gritty of my photos. This is because I used a filter on almost every photo, a ten second time limit, and almost an 8 aperture (approximately three stops from brightest). I found that I was very reliant on these three aspects because they gave me promising results in my photos, specifically it brought out the blacks against the whites. My favorite picture is the second one because I used about a 4 filter to bring out the darks of the trees, but also I like it because the foreground is in focus, but the background gradually becomes out of focus. That effect of a long depth of field is very evocative to me because it is interesting to compare the different results of the foreground and the background. However, even though I used a filter for that photo, I also like how there are still bits of grey in the middle ground, rather than the extreme white or black.