Walking around USC

M: f7.1, 1/125, ISO: 160, JPEG

This past weekend, I was in the mood to shoot some random photographs and test out my new 7D. I was at a Starbucks near USC responding to emails, editing photos and sending some out for printing. As soon as I was finished will all that, I took both my DSLR's with me and walked around the uni of so cal for about an hour.

Nothing caught my attention for the first 15 minutes. I took about 50 photos that hour and only decided on 4. The rose above is the fourth one.

How many people DON'T take photos of roses right? It's a worn out image that everyone seems to take a photo of. I'm not too fond of rose photos but here is mine.

I shot it in manual mode (my exposures are above). I should have lowered the ISO to 100 since it was an overcast day. I set my white balance to Cloudy and shot in Zone AutoFocus. I usually rely on the camera to focus the subject for me since I have terrible eye vision; even with my contacts on.

I decided to shoot in JPEG and not RAW since I hardly edit my photos to an extreme using photoshop. I know some people shoot in RAW for the safety of attaining more information in each photo, but nah. I'm alright with JPEG, for now.

As for photos, I haven't taken any this week. Well I have, but they're all work related.

See ya!

Jake Coronel