Photography 1 - The Frame - Project Looking through the viewfinder - Exercise Fitting the Frame to the subject

Conventional

Tight framing

Part

Within a landscape

Uncropped

Cropped a

Cropped b

Cropped c

Cropped d

Framed

Very fortunate to be visiting Hong Kong at the start of the course allowing me to use the same subject for this exercise as the course material.

Photography 1 - Project - Getting to know your camera - Exercise Panning at different shutter speeds

Pan at 1/60th Sec

Pan at 1/30th

Pan at 1/30th

Photography 1 - Project - Getting to know your camera - Exercise Focus at different apertures

Large aperture

Medium aperture

Small aperture

Photography 1 - Project - Getting to know your camera - Exercise Focus with a set aperture

Closest Focus point

Mid focus point

Furthest focus point

Closest focus point

Mid focus point

Further focus point

The Hong Kong poster images had to be taken with a small aperture due to the brightness of the scene. The degree of change in focus point is less pronounced than the images taken of the bookshelf in low light (and large aperture).

For me the most appealing bookshelf image is the one with the mid focus point because of the location of image. The TV and plants look better out of focus.

Photography 1 - Project - Getting to know your camera - Exercise Focal Length and angle of view

 18mm FL

 55mm FL

75mm FL

Tutor comms

Hi Mike

Glad it went well. Thanks for the URL- I have had a little browse and it is quite a treat to see some imagery with such incredible light. This is a real strength and being prejudiced, I am really keen on the architectural work. Have you submitted any of these for the TPOTY (Travel Photography Competition). If not, I suggest you do this this year. I look forward to seeing your new stuff for the assignment.

Al the best

Dave

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Mike Harris <mikekharris@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi Dave,

Had a great time. It was quite amusing to do the first course exercises using the same subject matter (Star Ferry, Hong Kong). I’ll load up some images one evening this week.

In the meantime, here is the URL for existing images on Flikr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikekharris/7032104187/

Regards,

Mike

Tutor Comms

Hi MIke

I hope you had a fruitful journey in the orient and managed to get some good imagery too. I look forward to seeing some of you first images. I did have a look on Flickr but there didn't seem to be any images I could find. Could you copy me a URL please. 

I can't comment on images you have taken outside the programme, but I will be able to refer to these in the context of your progression through the course- so they will be useful. Hope to hear from you soon.

regards

Dave

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Mike Harris <mikekharris@googlemail.com> wrote:

Dave,

I have loaded a few images to Flickr as promised.

If you have time I’d be grateful for feedback.

Cheers,

Mike

From: Mike Harris [mailto:mikekharris@googlemail.com]
Sent: 30 March 2012 13:57
To: David Kinney
Subject: Re: Profile

Good to meet you Dave,
I'm going on vacation for 2 Weeks starting Sunday but it would be good to talk to you when I get back. I'll propose a time when I return.
I'll be taking my course materials with me and as I'm going to be in Hong Kong and Melbourne I'll have some opportunities to work through some of the exercises.
I have many images stored locally, some of  which I will load to my new Flickr  account.
Regards
Mike