Slouch down into your beach chair and RELAAXXXXX..

Another beautiful destination of Trinidad and Tobago, is the oh so famous and very popular beach in North Trinidad, called Maracas Bay.


I recently visted this beach and spent the entire day gaping at the breathtaking scenery as the sun soaked up in my skin, leaving me very tanned and burnt.


As I took a stroll on the what seemed to be a long beach, I grew thirsty and was heading to buy a drink from one of the famous bake and shark vendors in the car park. I passed some chairs and found this view was marvelous in its own way and snapped it.


The setting I used was 'beach'. Only because I am limited to a point and shoot camera I cannot make my own personal settings with the lighting and ISO etc. (all the other technical camera settings in detail)


Photography is built on the three pillars of exposure: shutter speed, aperture and sensitivity. Shutter and aperture are controls for adjusting how much light comes into the camera.
How much light is needed is determined by the sensitivity of the medium used.


Over the years that sensitivity has been expressed in various ways, most recently as ASA and now ISO.


The "normal" range of ISO is about 200 to 1600. With today's digital cameras you can sometimes go as low as 50 or as high as 204,800. The number chosen has two important qualities associated with it. First, it sets the amount of light needed for a good exposure. The lower the number, the more light required. The more light that's required, the more likely a slow shutter speed will have to be used. That means low ISOs, like 100 or 200, are most often used in bright situations (like sunlight)


This setting would be used on a professional camera, but as it is a simple point and shoot camera that is being used, a simple choice of 'beach' filled the requirement easily. Everything came out brighter and more beautiful, almost flourisent at some points. The camera that I am using a Kodak EasyShare C195.