As I am nerdy I decided that I wanted to do a scientific shoot that would link quite nicely with the Honey and PVA shoots that I did. Now I'm really interested in exploring this idea of creating natural sculptures in order to create an 'alien like scene.' This is the exciting part. Hydrophobic sand is sand that basically doesn't like water. That's where the 'hydrophobic' part in the name comes from. So when you place it in water it forms shapes/structures rather than just sinking to the bottom like normal sand would and I also managed to get it in various colours so that the photographs wouldn't look so flat.

Now to the actual shoot. The photographs were unique and simple. A few need to be sorted out composition wise but apart from that everything went well. Now I actually managed to stick to a shutter speed this time. Well I say stick to, I used 3 different ones that were close together. I used speeds of 1/60, 1/80 and 1/100. I was able to keep the shutter speed so low as I was using a tripod and this helped me make use of the light that I had. The reason that I varied between the three is because either side of the 1/80 bracket the light was surprising different. Some compositions liked the darker 1/100 shutter speed while other favored the lighter 1/60 shutter speed. In addition to this the aperture was kept small F.4.6-5.6 so that the depth of field was narrower. This was needed as I was shooting so close to the tank.