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Beatiful Fate

•Take a beautiful picture of something ugly

Story:

I took this photo of a street sign inside a cemetery fence. When I saw it, I thought of how strange it was. And it's not that there's one, there's several. It seemed odd that there would be streets for a graveyard.

Concept:

I focused on the street sign to convey the idea that life moves forward. I turned up the aperture size a bit so the graves would be out of focus, because I wanted it to show how overbearing the concept of time can be, especially over such heavy subjects.

Aspects:

I used a medium aperture size because I wanted the graves in the background to still be visible but to not be the focus of the image. It was pretty late in the evening so I didn't get a ton of light naturally, I turned up the ISO settings a good bit so the dark features of the graves were still recognizable.

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Uploaded on April 20, 2022
Taken on April 19, 2022