Sometimes I feel I am in a photographic rut and I just need to do something different, and frankly the outcome isn’t what is important, it’s the act of experimenting which satisfies me.
This weekend I was photographing a Passion Flower - something I have done so many times. I was wondering how to achieve a different effect and I decided to play with my ISO. Here you can see the same subject in the same light but, by adjusting the ISO, I created different hues. I am not suggesting that any of the images is particularly successful, it was much more a case of - let’s play and see what I can come up with! But maybe what I take away from this minor experiment might be successfully applied when I am, for instance, photographing autumn leaves or structural cacti? If we experiment at our leisure, we expand our artistic scope for moments when we need to be original and to create a product more unique to us.
We can of course always opt to modify in post-production but it’s so much easier to be creative in-camera. And hey, I’m all for having a bit of fun!
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