This week was all about Depth of Field and controlling the focus of our photos. Brief: Capture and share five images demonstrating your ability to control depth of field to achieve desired photographic effects. Here are my photos, all staring 5 little aliens from Hawkin’s Bazaar (a great shop, but I digress from the subject!) [...]
This week was all about good exposure! We have learnt about achieving good exposure in our photos using a combination of aperture, shutter speed and ISO. Brief: Capture and share five well exposed images from two of three catagories. I chose to take photos (hopefully well exposed ones) of “creative motion blur” and “low light [...]
This week was all about ISO settings… Mini Task Take the same photo at different ISO settings and compare the results. Here are the three pictures I took at ISO 100, 400 and 1600: Photo 1: ISO 100 Photo 2: ISO 400 Photo 3: ISO 1600 I personally prefer the photo at ISO 100, the [...]
This post is a bit late (considering we are just starting week 3 of the course), but here are the results of the first assignment.. Brief: Take 6 photos, each containing a different letter from the alphabet, not just by looking for letters on signs but by looking creatively at the shapes formed by nature [...]
If you have a flickr account and some pink pictures (or the ability to upload some!) then why not add them to the following group? Passionately Pink for the Cure As described on the flickr blog: “For each pink photo you add to Passionately Pink for the Cure, Yahoo! will donate $1. You can add [...]
I have started a new open university course, T189 – Digital photography: creating and sharing better images. I thought I would do a weekly post which summarises how I am getting on with the course and share the photos that I take for the weeks projects. I am just coming to the end of the [...]
You may or may not know that I am enthusiastic about photography, so much so that in the last few years I have progressed my camera collection from one 3.2 Mega Pixel camera up to a total of 3 cameras, a camera-phone and 2 lenses for my (newish) Canon EOS 400D. Anyway, I found that [...]
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