The subject today comes from Mull-Over-March word challenge of mother/card. I came across a card my mom had sent me, enclosing the home-made card she had saved that I had made for her in what she thinks was about 1951, when I was in Pre-K. It was the first Mother’s Day card I had made for her. I varied ISO, aperture, and shutter speed to compare the outcomes. I used 250, 500, and 800 ISO, F9 and 14, and 1/10, 1/30, and 1/60 shutter speed. It was useful to see how, with the same item, the DOF field could be manipulated, as well as the brightness and clarity of the print. The two in the photo represent the two ‘winners.’ Others in the pool of photos were over- or underexposed. The ‘winner’ on the top was clearest and had the deepest DOF where all print could be read. It used a narrower aperture (F14), the medial shutter speed (1/30) and highest ISO (800). The ‘winner’ on the bottom, for softer look and shallower DOF used a lower ISO (500), a wider aperture, but still not that wide (F9), and somewhat faster shutter speed (1/60). All settings, however, were in a middle range. The lens was 105mm macro, camera on a tripod. BTW, to see the difference in clarity, probably needs to be viewed larger size.
how lovely that your mother kept your hand-made card, I think there is nothing nicer than hand made cards from my kids or grandchildren, I keep a flower my grandaughter made me out of paper she'd coloured in many years ago, and I think she likes that I still have it on display for all to see.
@ness50 I'm sure it does mean a lot to your granddaughter to see her work displayed all these years. I ended up sending the photo to my mom -- actually sent the softer one given Daniel's comment about sentiment. She loved it -- she hadn't realized I'd saved her card to me, as well as the one I'd made.
This is great, both for the sentimental card-saving aspect of it, as well as the different looks you achieved with your settings changes. Daniel expressed the mood changes you made very well.
