Task 4: Aperture

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Digital Diary

Very interesting lecture. Love some of the Trent Parke photographs. Challenged again by my different camera & lens capacity. I have 3 lenses: 50mm (f1.8), 18-55mm (f3.5-5.6), and 55-300mm (f4.5-5.6). For most shots I have been using the 18-55mm lens. I was struggling to understand at the time why the maximum aperture on this lens set at 50mm was 5.6. I read afterwards about variable aperture lenses (http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Learn-And-Explore/Article/gll2rs05/zoom-lens-maximum-aperture-fixed-and-variable-apertures.html) which was very helpful. For this reason, in Shot 3 1 adjusted the settings to F13/F5.6 to ensure a similar range of values. Similarly, in Shot 4 I used the 55mm lens on the same settings.
Other challenges faced were the extreme glare encountered at the beach. This made it very difficult to see through the viewfinder clearly. Perhaps an umbrella would be good in this situation.

Task 3: Shutter speed

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Shot 4

Digital Diary

The challenge begins in earnest. Enjoy the lecture, am challenged both by my ignorance and by the fact that I am using a different camera (Sony a37 SLR). The only other problem I have had this week is the non-functioning links in the lecture notes – Raimond is looking into this.

Day of shoot: problems with the camera, which kept switching to shooting in bursts despite being set on single shot. Ultimately resolved by resetting the camera. Happy that I worked it out in the end. My lens is limited to 55mm max, so used this rather than 70mm in setup 4. Overall this exercise has been a good intro to shutter speed and its effects.

Task 2

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