Camera Use Week 2: Vantage Point

Week 2 Vantage Point

In class Exercise 

1. Foreground, Mid, and Background Shot

Shutter Speed 1/500   Fstop 5.0   ISO 100

I took this image with a Wide Depth of Field and an Fstop 5.0. I took this shot with the post in front as my Foreground, Rabia as my Mid, and the roofing and cars as my Background. I asked Rabia to stand in the middle of the two and just off to the side so there would be obvious space between her and the fore and background. I took this hand held and with a Wide Depth of Field with everything in focus.

2. Low Angle Portrait  with a Wide Depth of field

Shutter Speed 1/640   Fstop 5.0   ISO 100

I took this image in Otara with Rabia as my Model. I really loved the triangular patterning looking down on the stair case so I decided to take a wide angled image with that in frame as well. I took this with a Fstop of 5.0 and took it hand held. These low angled shots were the first images I took while out doing class exercises, at first the images were coming out quite over exposed so I played around with the Shutter Speeds, which I continued doing, to try and keep the images a more normal colour. 

 3. High Angel Portrait with a Narrow Depth of Field 

Shutter Speed 1/800   Fstop 5.0   ISO 100

I took this image standing at the bottom of the stair case and asked Rabia to stand at the top. I zoomed in with this image to make it a more narrow depth of field in the background when I should have lowered my Fstop as well, which is something I really need to practice as I keep forgetting to change my Fstops with the Different Depth of Fields. I took this handheld.  

Vantage Point Week 2

Self Directed Task

1. Low Angled Portrait with a Wide Depth of Field

Shutter Speed 1/400   Fstop 5.0   ISO 100

Shutter Speed 1/400   Fstop 3.5   ISO 100

I had issues with the manual mode outside of class with no one to help. I took this image as a low Angle Wide Depth of Field image on the steps of our farm bridge.  The Top Image is my submission for Wide Depth of Field, the bottom one was my attempt at changing the Fstop to change the Depth of Field, as I stated above I needed to practice doing. I think these two images came out quite well, Although I found changing the Fstop changed the lighting which I wasn't too sure how to change at the time BUT I think I needed to also change the shutter speed as well to get the lighting a bit better, I tried changing the ISO but that just made the images go more over and under exposed. For the Wide depth of Field on manual I had issues especially with this specific image with keeping the background sharp as you can tell from the top image it's still not completely sharp, I think it may have worked a lot better if I took the shutter speed up.

2. High Angled Portrait with a Narrow Depth of Field

Shutter Speed 1/400   Fstop 5.0   ISO 100

I took this image from the bottom of the bridge steps with my sister this time sitting at the top. I took this with a Narrow Depth of Field. I loved the parterning of the trees behind her.

3. Foreground, Mid, and Background

Shutter Speed 1/80   Fstop 5.0   ISO 6400

I'm not entirely happy  with this image. I would have preferred to take it in a different nicer area BUT it's still shows the Fore, Mid, and Back contrast. Front counter Foreground, Mum Mid, and The cupboards Background. I had issues again with the focus, I couldn't get the front counter to stay in focus, no matter what I did. I think it may have been because I was standing too close to it. I took the ISO up when I came in from outside as the images came out extremely under exposed so I took the ISO up to fix the problem. I also changed the shutter to help as well. 

4. Landscape Images with a Wide and Narrow Depth of Field

Shutter Speed 1/1000   Fstop 3.5   ISO 100

Shutter Speed 1/1000   Fstop 5.0   ISO 100

I took these images as Landscape images with the top image as a Narrow Depth of Field with the focus on the fence post in the front and the bottom image as a Wide Depth of Field. Taken from the top of a hill over looking our farm. I changed the Shutter Speed down to 3.5 for the first for a more narrower Depth of Field, and took the Fstop up for the bottom to 5.0 for a more sharper image and a wider depth of Field. 

5. Architecture with a Narrow and a Wide Depth of Field

Shutter Speed 1/80   Fstop 5.0   ISO 1600

Shutter Speed 1/80   Fstop 3.5   ISO 1600

I originally went into Auckland City to try and get some low angle architecture shots BUT my Dad and I couldn't find any buildings we could go in where we could get a lower angle shot. I did find one place but when I went to try and get images from there I couldn't get in cause the doors were locked, so I ended up deciding on getting images from up stairs of my dad's Eames chairs with a higher angle using the same wide and narrow depth of fields. I had real issues with this one on getting any kind of blur in the background. As you can see from both images the background is quite sharp.