In these photos, I set my camera to manual focus and adjusted this to create a shallow focus. As a result, the foreground is in clear focus on the first image: blurring the background which keeps our attention grounded to the foreground. This concept is reversed for the second photo, where the background is in clear focus compared with the blurry foreground

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Next, I experimented with the white balance to create several different hues and colouring of the same image. This led to the reproduction of the image, but with a slightly altered hue such as yellow or blue. This can be useful to create a mood or atmosphere, but also to signify indoors or outdoors

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I lowered the ISO, which creates low-key lighting and generally darkened the photo

I used the manual focus to create the following photos. With the first image, I adjusted the focus so that the image was blurry and the letters were illegible. Next, I ensured that there was a clear enough focus to easily read the letters

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