I didn’t travel too far this week’s theme, light, I just went to a local elementary school. A friend of mine teaches there and they are doing a life cycles unit, which includes monitoring some chickens as they go from eggs to chicks. At day seven I went in to take some pictures of candling. Here is one of those from the series I took:
ISO 2500 50mm 0ev f/6.3 1/10
If you look at the lightest part of the image, you can see the head of the developing chicken. How cool is that?
The challenge to getting this image is, as you can see, that I was shooting in the dark. I used my tripod and asked my friend to stand very still. You will notice that the ISO is really high here. I could have tried a lower f-stop to let in more light, but I really did want to preserve a good amount of depth in the photo, so that is why it is set to f/6.3.
Cheers!
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