vertical and horizontal frames
In this exercise we were asked to find twenty situations and shoot all those images vertically. The purpose was to not only force us out of the habit of shooting most things horizontally without thought for the subject or composition.
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positioning the horizon
Feel on more solid ground again after the balance exercise. In this exercise we were to concentrate on the placement of the horizon within the frame when composing an image.
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finding balance
In this exercise we had to identify balance within images, this balance could be objects, lines, tones or colour.
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In the previous exercise, the purpose was to note how changing focal lengths narrowed the field of view…
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understanding focal lengths
This was an exercise to study the effect that the focal length of the lens — that as we change lenses from one focal length to another — its effect on the amount of view we can take in.
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a sequence of composition
Not much of a people shooter — there was always a chance that this project was going to take me well and truly out of my comfort zone.
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object in different positions in the frame
For this exercise, I chose a small bench underneath a tree, and in front of a hedge, in Windsor Great Park.
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fitting the frame to the subject (II)
After taking the previous four shots, we were required to find alternate crops of the final image from the previous exercise.
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fitting frame to subject (i)
In this exercise, we were to experiment with the amount of space that a subject takes up in the frame…
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can’t pan, won’t pan…
An afternoon sat on the roundabout in Trafalgar Square, handheld camera with limited success …
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fixed position with shutter speeds
In this exercise, we would investigate how shutter speeds would either freeze motion, or allow motion to be recorded in an image.
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focus at different apertures
The images illustrate the effect that changing the aperture has on the depth of field within an image; and how the increased depth of field can be a distraction in busy scenes.
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focus with a set aperture (ii)
This set of images is a repeat of the previous exercise where I concentrate on focus with a set aperture…
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focus with a set aperture (i)
In this exercise we were to become familiar with how a wide aperture affected our depth of field in an image; and also how this affected our perception of the image when the in-focus area was rendered in different parts of the photograph.
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