It was unseasonably warm today, so I decided to enjoy the afternoon sun and take a walk around the monuments with my camera.
My favorite of the DC monuments, Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial, always makes an impact. Each particular impact (names, axial alignment with the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial, reflections) can be emphasized and exaggerated using aperture to control depth of field.
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| F-stop: f/29, Shutter Speed: 1/60 second |
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| F-stop: f/4.5, Shutter Speed: 1/640 second |
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| F-stop: f/4.5, Shutter Speed: 1/500 second |
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| F-stop: f/8, Shutter Speed: 1/160 second |
The Lincoln Memorial. In the first shot, I like the slight blur of the people walking up to Lincoln against the group listening to the Park Ranger in the background. In the second shot, no one was moving, so the whole image is focused.
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| F-stop: f/4.5, Shutter Speed: 1/8 second |
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| F-stop: f/4.5, Shutter Speed: 1/8 second |
Korean War Memorial.
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| F-stop: f/32; Shutter Speed: 1/6 second |
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| F-stop: f/5, Shutter Speed: 1/320 second |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, along the Tidal Basin. I happened to see the ducks swimming by while trying to shoot the Jefferson Memorial across the water. Whatever settings I was using at the time produced this quick 'reflex' shot, a happy accident of sparkling water and headless portraits.
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| F-stop: f/36, Shutter Speed: 1/50 second |
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(shot on manual, using meter; was over-exposed because trying to achieve glassy water effect with slower shutter speed, so exposure and colors were corrected in Photoshop)
F-stop: f/32, Shutter Speed: 1/25 second |
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(shot on manual, using meter)
F-stop: f/5, Shutter Speed: 1/1600 second |
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| F-stop: f/22, Shutter Speed: 1/60 second |
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| F-stop: f/3.5, Shutter Speed: 1/2500 second |
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