Photography 1 - Project - Getting to know your camera - Exercise - Shutter Speeds

Fast shutter speed

Medium shutter speed

Low shutter speed

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