Assignments

Ok, so our first lesson was "Books" this was taking a subject or object and placing it or manipulating it one way or another to create a scene. This type of photography is called "table top"or "product" or even "Macro" photography. There are lots of different types of photography, sports, portrait, landscape (which we will come back to) table top, etc. Some people call wedding a type of photography but I wouldn't go that far.

Anyways each type of photography utilizes the same 3 variables (F-stop/shutter speed/and ISO) but each type uses different combinations of the 3 to accomplish the desired result.

Sports = stopping action (fast shutter speed)

Portrait = pulling your eyes and drawing attn to your subject (wide open 1.4 /2.8 /3.5)

Land scape = making everything in the scene razor sharp, allowing your eyes to wander and discover (high number f-stops like f11/f16/f22)

Macro = etc....

So I think we should alternate. One lesson on a type or photography then one lesson on things like composition, light and shadow, creating moods, capturing expressions, timing and so on.

Since we did a type (table top) then "center compositions", then another type (land scape) lets move onto something like timing.

Basically a good photographer has great timing. I think it comes from the days when you only had 36 shots, film was expensive and it was a pain in the butt just to get it processed, oh and that was a pretty penny as well. Back in the day you made it count because you had to.

Capturing an expression inst easy, that is unless you know a few "Hams" that will do what you ask them to. Capturing a snowboarder at the highest height or at the most dramatic part of their trick isn't easy. Getting a perfect lightning bolt as it hits the earth isn't easy. However if you know how to use what you've got and you can do it quickly, you will start find that you are using less hard drive space and more and more of your photos are exactly what you set out to capture.