Even though the theme for this picture is flower, I thought it would be lazy to just shoot the floral wallpaper so I bribed my cousin to act like my model. I had them wear a red hoodie to complement the greenish wallpaper and found a red candle holder to match. The candle was completely unnecessary but I wanted a bit more oomph. 

We went through a ton of practice shots before I decided on this camera setting. I prioritized ISO and aperture because I was shooting in a dark room and I wanted the floral wallpaper to remain detailed and textured even though it served as the background. I settled for a slightly wide aperture at f/5.6 to softly define the subject without completely blurring the background. For ISO, the lowest I could compromise was 1250. Since I had my subject stay still (despite wearing a hoodie inside a room where I strictly prohibited the opening of fans), I set the shutter speed to 1/60 to let in more light without risking much motion blur. 

For motion, I wanted to capture the candle flame as a ghostly trail so I went with a slow shutter speed at 1/60 then set the camera to continuous shooting. My room was fairly dark when I was taking this picture and the only light source was a projector that I used to create a soft spotlight effect on the wall. I chose a mid-range aperture to slightly blur the wallpaper in the background without erasing the details on it. After shooting this picture, however, I realized that I should have gone with a wider aperture to further emphasize the candle flame but I mainly focused on the shutter speed and the ISO, which I set at 1000 because I needed to bring in more light. Despite the small regret of not utilizing the exposure triangle well, I was lucky to have captured the flame in such a beautiful sway. 

Using Lightroom, I blurred the background to make sure it wouldn't compete for attention against the candle flame. The photo would have thrived even without stylistic editing but I wanted to achieve the dreamy look that I had in mind so I also adjusted other settings such as dehaze, vibrance, and clarity.

This is admittedly the laziest and most random shot of the collection. I was at the grocery store desperately looking for any pattern I could shoot. I was getting antsy and therefore I was seeing patterns everywhere. The aisles looked identical, the carts were arranged methodically—everything was rhythmic. But there were too many people in the area that if I attempted to take photos, any of the patterns I saw would have been disrupted by the chaos. So I looked for places where people can't physically access and the first place I thought of was the ceiling. 

For this shot, I used my phone because I was in a public place. The pro mode in Samsung's camera app doesn't allow aperture adjustment (at least in my model it doesn't) so all I could adjust were the ISO and the shutter speed. I set the ISO at the lowest setting because I was taking pictures of lights and I didn't need any more light and grain in my picture. I adjusted the shutter speed to work well with the ceiling lights. This setting was fast enough to minimize blur as well. I used the Sepia preset in Lightroom to add a moody flair and get rid of all the unnecessary colors.