Week 2: Photoshooting

photography task (week 2)
1. Use your zoom lens to create a sequence of images with different focal length (16mm, 50mm, 80mm)

"At first, photographers are tempted to put as much ‘subject’ as possible into their images, but, with experience, a better, more satisfying approach is to consciously edit the scene, considering what can be left out to simplify and strengthen the message" (15).

 The use of 16mm zoom lens leads to a composed and considered images. The use of zoom lenses allows the image to be corpped in-camera to cut out distracting surroundings in the background compared to the images without zooiming in.
80mm
80mm
"Simplification is an essential part of composition; getting rid of unwanted visual clutter will leave only the important elements that can then be arranged to create a wellcomposed image" (19).
50mm
16mm
2. Take a couple of images from the point of view of a child. 

Low angle
Low angle 2
Low angle 3
Low angle 4
This one is my favourite picture, because the trees are randomly placed and this kind of randomness is good.
3. Use the rule of thirds.



 The rules of thirds are applied to the above pictures. The left one applies to the rules of thirds more than the right picture; however, the left one is out of focus. What I like about this picture, especially the left one is that the green leaf at the bottom right stands out.

Although the front tree is out of focus, I like how each tree does not overlap and show independence.



Other Pictures

"[T]he background is cluttered with too much visible detail" (20).




Comments

  1. evavoutsaki18 February 2018 at 14:21

    You have mixed up the numbers for the focal length of the ens: 16mm is the wide angle, 50mm is the standard and 80mm is portrait.

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