Shoot The Dog!

snowbunny

snowbunny

Location
Andorra and Spain
Emily_Babbelhund said:
So... I will tell my brain to shut up and read the lessons again today and attempt a lab. Not a Lab, but a lab.
Click to expand...
If you’ve already read through it once and watched the videos, skip straight to the lab. You don’t have to understand it all immediately, the important thing is getting out there with your camera and seeing how the settings affect what happens to the photo. You can go back afterwards and read the lectures at your leisure, and once you have more practical experience, the words will make more sense. There is no exam 😂

The CliffNotes are:

1. The aperture of the lens works like the pupil of your eye, letting in more light when it’s bigger and less when it’s smaller.

2. When the aperture is wider, there is less depth to what is in focus (ie if your dog is standing looking at you then at a narrow aperture you may have the whole dog in focus, tip to tail, but with a wide aperture the eyes may be in focus but the nose, ears, and everything else is blurry)... this is the point that needs the practical work to internalise it.

3. The bit that people (including me when I started out) can get muddled over is that as the “number” gets bigger, the aperture itself (the hole) gets smaller. So f/1.4 is wiiiiide open, like a cat who just saw a cucumber, and f/22 is teeny tiny, like someone staring into the sun. Again, it’s confounding to start with but just write it down if you need to and then the more you use it, the more this becomes second nature and you won’t even need to think about it.
 
Beanwood

Beanwood

Administrator
I have used my camera for the first lab. Just having a wee problem with the single point on my new second hand camera! Everything else seems to make sense though.
 
Beanwood

Beanwood

Administrator
So here we go... first lab

iso 1000 (oops should have been 800) f.25. Background more in focus, but shutter speed sloooowwwww!


F25.jpg


iso 1000 f.8 .... background becoming more blurry..

f8.jpg


iso 800 with f.5 (as low as my lens will go with current settings and conditions) photobombed by Marcus!

iso 800 f5.jpg
 
Granca

Granca

Wow! Must get out my old DSLR and charge the battery, then see if I can understand any of this. (I’ve always used it on the auto setting!)
 
snowbunny

snowbunny

Location
Andorra and Spain
Emily_Babbelhund said:
would it look weird at this point to post things from the first lab on FB?
Click to expand...
Absolutely not! There is no "behind". Especially for the bronze level - at gold, the class ends after six weeks, and they lose access to Amy then. You got us people in the FB group for as long as you want us :D
Anyway, someone else just posted the first lab yesterday. So more than is being just "OK", by doing so, you might be encouraging other people who are feeling "behind" to post, rather than abandoning all hope!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top