Photography Class #4

Yesterday, the instructor took us outside to take pictures. He demonstrated how to use light and positioning to achieve the best picture. We discussed shadows and subject placement. I'm more of an animal/thing picture taker but the information was good to know. I had never really thought about the stuff he showed us.

I received good critique on my assignment pictures. Here is what I turned in.....

Aperture pictures:

I took this one with an aperture of 3.5. See how everything in the background is blurry.

This one has an aperture of 5.6. The background is getting a little more detail.

And this last one was set at 8.0, more detail. The smaller you make the aperture, the more detail you have in the background. The instructor said I should have went to a bigger number, than I had to remind him that I only have a point and shoot camera. 8.0 is as high as it goes.

And to illustrate shutter speed, I did this.....

The shutter on this one was real slow to show action. I believe around 1/20 of a second.


Then I sped the shutter up some to get this.

And finally, I speed it up to like 1/2000 of a second to stop all action. You can see I went outside. I was having a problem with lighting. When I would speed the shutter up, I would have to increase the ISO and decrease the aperture. I kept having problems with under-exposure. It was too dark. Guess I need to work on that!

Anyhoo, the assignment for next class is "texture". I have some thoughts about that already.

Oh, we also discussed the histogram last night. If you are interested in that, let me know. I will post a brief description on how to use it if you want.