Production at its finest...

For this photo, I truly struggled finding a subject. I knew soo many things I could photograph, but whenever I would decide on something I would tell myself I could do better. I walk through our manufacturing area everyday and earlier this week it dawned on me. I saw all of these sparks flying and thought it would be an awesome opportunity.

 

This photo is of a guy welding up some parts. It was such a challenge to land the right settings but I think I did pretty good. I closed up the aperature to limit the light during the longer exposure time to make it seem like there was no light and to emphasize the sparks. I also had to go manual on the focus to set the focus on the sparks and not the welder or the curtain in the back. The only editing I did was to crop the photo into a portrait size and use the rule of thirds to align the picture.

 

My design principle was emphasis, with the blue arc of the weld and the sparks that are being emitted from the process.

 

Final Camera Settings were:

F/11

1/2.5 sec

ISO 200

50mm focal

Done