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| Sunset at Walgren Lake, June 2017. (Photo by Daniel Binkard) |
My instinct with shots like this is to try and keep more of the scene in focus. Likely as not I didn’t have a tripod, so my choices were to use a large aperture or a grainy high sensitivity. I’m glad I went with a large aperture. The sharp grass draws the eye to the middle of the frame to explore those shapes. That’s also where the color sits, further keeping the eye centered. But after that, you might find yourself looking around the rest of the frame, exploring the unfocused shapes of the surrounding trees and far shore. I don’t quite like the balance of the far shore cutting through the middle of the grass. Need some lights or something back there. That would be interesting to see!
