This task called for us to capture a portrait and a landscape or cityscape using wide normal and telephoto length lenses. It’s been a while between camera and capture posts with internet issues and hospital appointments for my daughters Crohns Disease management and my autistic sons psychology and TAFE days , also with my partner having been away for almost a month I was having issues with my time management and the realisation it’s impossible to be in two places at once. So I will be posting all the exercises this week that I haven’t had a chance to blog about as well as working on my assessments for all four subjects.
Portrait
Activity 2.1
The portrait task was made more interesting by the fact that we had to keep the same framing at the three different focal lengths which meant moving around and using my reference shot changing lenses as well as using my iPhone as well to guide myself with where my camera should be for each shot. My partner kindly obliged to be the subject for this exercise. I personally prefer the telephoto length shot as my partner is 6’2” ft And I’m a lot shorter, I didn’t feel like we were cramped into a small space and it has a slightly softer quality to the image.
Guide shots for camera position
Activity 2.1 composing my portrait shot
Cityscape
Activity 2.1
I scouted a few locations until i found the one i wanted and decided to shoot at night. I had a few goes until i found a spot on the river i was happy with but here is one of the locations on Marsden Road that i had initially thought of then dismissed and then decided to have a go because the view over Paramatta is amazing but i just couldn’t get the shot I was after, I did get an okay light trail though.
For my cityscape focal length shots I chose a view from Ermington Boat Ramp looking across the Parramatta River to Rhodes and Olympic Park. Essentially the idea was the same as with the Portraits except that this time the camera and tripod stayed in place and the idea was to zoom in from wide to telephoto to see how the composition of the image changed.
Danielle Rose Photography 