Week 10 – Architectural Images / Place and Space

For this task, I walked around the university campus with a long lens (70 – 300mm) and took photo of anything interesting I saw in the architecture around me. I realised pretty early on that I needed to be very careful with the focus on my camera as I was using the zoom for most of my photos so they needed to be focused or they wouldn’t be very aesthetically pleasing. It was quite bright when I took the photos and as most of the buildings I was photographing had a lot of glass as part of their structure, it was hard to get the right exposure and lighting.

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Week 7 – Portrait

This week we were tasked with taking portrait photographs of strangers. Once I’d found two subjects who were willing to be photographed, the main problem I faced was getting the composition right. I struggled to find the right aperture level to get a well-lit photo so these were the first few photos I took:

Dark 1 Dark 2

 

I then managed to find the right aperture levels but then needed to adjust the focus. It took a few attempts as the first photos turned out very out of focus:

Focus 1 Focus 2

 

I eventually managed to get the right levels of both the aperture and the focus right to achieve the following photograph:

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The final photograph

 

I think the focus could have been improved if I had zoomed in on the subject’s faces first but, overall, I am happy with the final photograph.