Week 2

Today's lecture focused on Aperture. The higher the 'f-stop' number is the depth of field for focus changes. Likewise the lower the 'f-stop' number gets the depth of field becomes narrow and clarity of subject sharpens as it becomes the focus, whereas the focus of the background becomes blurred.

Class Activity for “Life through a Lens”, we explored different ways on how to use a camera. There were 3 that were specifically introduced to us:

1. Rule of thirds: Using a grid in the camera to take photos. This is similar to using grids when using designing/editing programs. The rule of thirds represents a way of capturing the composition in the camera.

2. Leading Lines: These produce the use of showing perspective in the images you take. By using lines in the the scene you are capturing, it ultimately produces a whole new concept and purpose of the image.

3. Frame cropping: Cropping an image by moving your body around, rather than using the zoom setting in your camera.

Focus on

The images below are photos taken from my Sony A6000 with the 55-210mm lens.

The problem I've experienced with this exercise was that the focus point was not set to single but was set to wide focus making it difficult to focus on a single subject. Camera shake was inevitable however it was less noticeable