Day: December 8, 2017

Hello and welcome to my photography blog where I have uploaded my responses to our seminar tasks and workshop tasks.

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.

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:

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:

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