Okay, so, “seeing the light,” right? Sounds kinda profound, but honestly, it was just me messing around with my camera and stumbling onto something cool. It all started because I was bored out of my mind on a cloudy Sunday. I was gonna binge-watch some show, but then I thought, “Nah, let’s do something… slightly more productive.”
I grabbed my camera – it’s nothing fancy, just a decent DSLR I got on sale a while back – and started wandering around my apartment. I was trying to find something interesting to photograph. You know, that perfect shot that makes you feel like a pro, even if you’re just snapping pics of dust bunnies.
The Experiment Begins
I started by pointing my Camera to window, trying to use all setting it give to me, the light, the view, eveything outside.
- First, I fiddled with the aperture. Wide open, everything was blurry except for this one little succulent on my windowsill. Kinda neat, but not what I was going for.
- Then, I cranked up the shutter speed. Everything got super dark, like I was shooting in a cave. Nope.
- I messed with the ISO, and whoa, the noise! It looked like a TV screen full of static. Back that down.
I was getting frustrated. I almost gave up, but then I noticed the way the sunlight was filtering through my blinds. It was creating these really cool stripes of light and shadow on the wall. And that’s when it hit me – I didn’t need to find something interesting, I could make something interesting.
Chasing the Light
I started playing with the angle of the blinds, twisting them this way and that. The light patterns shifted and changed. I grabbed a glass of water and held it up in the light beams. Boom! Instant magic. The water refracted the light, creating these awesome rainbow patterns on the wall.
I spent the next hour just experimenting. I used different objects – a prism I found in a drawer, a piece of colored plastic, even my own hand – to bend and shape the light. I adjusted the camera settings, finally finding that sweet spot where the light was bright but not blown out, the shadows were deep but not completely black, and the colors were vibrant but not oversaturated.
The Result
I ended up with a bunch of photos that I’m actually pretty proud of. They’re not perfect, but they capture something… I don’t know… ethereal. It’s like I managed to bottle up a little bit of sunlight. I change and try every single settings of the camera, and found out those settings that really suit the light.
It was a good reminder that sometimes, the best things happen when you’re not even trying. You just gotta be open to seeing things a little differently. And maybe have a dusty apartment with some decent blinds.
