Orange Study

Photo 1 - Bird of Paradise, Pearl City, Oahu, Hawaii,
Photo info - Nikon D50; Shutter Speed 1/80; F stop 5.6; no flash; photo taken 6/23/07

Photo 2 - Daffodil, Rexburg, Idaho
Photo info - Nikon D50; Shutter Speed 1/750; F stop 5.6; no flash; photo taken 4/25/09

Photo 3 - Payson Fire, Photo taken from Woodland Hills Utah
Photo info - Nikon D50; Shutter Speed about 1 min 45 seconds; F stop 5.3; no flash; photo taken 8/1/08 (remote used for long exposure)

Photo 4 - Sunset, Idaho Falls, Idaho
Photo info - Nikon D50; Shutter Speed 1/2500; F stop 6.3; no flash; photo taken 10/1/06

Orange is such an intersting color. I wouldn't say it is my favorite color, just off the top of my head. However, it is a neat color to photograph because so many things are orange. As I was looking for some photos for this assignment to fit the color orange I came up with a lot of different things that fit the color orange - fires, fireworks - flowers - sunsets - fall leaves. Some of these photos have turned out so beautifully and I must admit it is due to the beautiful color orange.

The first and second photographs are both of flowers but are unique. One thing that constitutes this is the time of day the photos were taken. The first photo was taken in the late afternoon and mostly in the shade where as the second photo was taken midmorning in full sunlight.

The fire at night is a photograph I really enjoyed taking. A photograph at night takes quite a bit more work than photographs during the day. You have to play with your shutter speeds more, and you might even have to wait a few minutes for one photograph to be taken & processed. I set my camera up on a tripod and used my remote to release the shutter. I had my husband time me for 1 minute and 45 seconds and then I opened the shutter again. (We tried this at several different times) It is always facinating to me how the camera with a long exposure can capture things our eyes do not quite percieve. The smoke in the air helped the camera capture light from the fire much better than my eyes did.

The last photograph was taken of a beautiful sunset in Idaho falls. I tried shooting just about anything that was available and after trying to get the sunset and some trees to all look good I decided to go with a silhouette shot of the houses and let the sunset shine.