One Day for Provincetown

Bonus!

Reflection: For this shoot, I focused mostly on natural and man-made objects without showing many people. The day I went to Provincetown it was fairly crowded, being a holiday weekend, and the main commercial street was well trafficked. It felt a little too chaotic for me to try and take pictures of people while dodging foot traffic, and I also haven't done much of that so far. So I kept the vibe that I started out with in the morning when it was foggy out on the water and mostly shot landscapes or water, versus people. The exception is "Beach Time," which I thought was too cute not to share, while still keeping my friends' faces anonymous. 

While in the morning I was taking landscapes, in the afternoon when I got to the beach I took more focused shots of specific objects being pushed around by the tides --a horseshoe crab shell, and a piece of seaweed. I initially turned the fstop open to get a narrow depth of field, but then realized that compensating with a very fast shutter speed led to a cool "freezing" effect for the water. I took many photos for each object, but gravitated towards the ones that have this frozen effect, where the rushing water almost looks like ice.

At the end of the day, I took some photos as we were returning to Boston. The city looked more interesting to my eyes than it had earlier in the day, when everything was overcast. Each building had different colors and temperatures of light peeking out their windows, making the skyline sparkle. It got a few good ones when our boat was moving slow enough to not blur the images, and it was cool to see the same sights some 10 hours apart when they looked so different.