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The start
Christmas day and the dinner has gone down nicely. Ive got a few minutes while they do the washing up to set up my blog. What? - they wanted to do it !Its for journaling my OCA phototography course...
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Tatton snow
Went up to Tatton today having given up on the sales. Ive got a three month pass and plan maybe to use Tatton pics for the LRPS panel. The snow is still lying, blue sky and sun all day. I got some...
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OCA work starts
Ok Ive got started on the OCA course - read all the materials so I know what Im doing. I emailed my tutor Alan Byrne and got a nice letter back introducing himself and pointing to his photographic and...
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Exercise 1, Focal length and angle of view
I used the 24-105mm zoom lens and found surprisingly, the natural focal length (which corresponds to my eyes) was 70mm. I understand this depends on the size of the sensor - my camera has a "full size"...
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Exercise: Focus with a set aperture
Focus with a set aperture 3 photos: I used a doggy draught excluder, 100mm Macro lens at fully open aperture (f2.8) focused on nearest dog, next and then middle dog (the Westie). I prefer the 1st image...
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Exercise: Focus at different apertures
Ive started a Word document with all photos in and also this text for the blog - it means I can print from Word(the quality is ok on the 7400 officejet). At the end of the course Ill have a hard copy...
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Exercise: Shutter speeds
Took the camera out into the garden and did a series of photographs of the pond waterfall. I used the tripod and 100mm lens which has a 2.8 aperture. The day was overcast and the pond is in a poorly...
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Exercise Panning with Different Shutter Speeds
I stopped by the roadside and took some photos from inside the car (it was raining). I adjusted the shutter speed from 1/250 down to ¼These are 1/250, then 1/90, then 1/20 ...I found it difficult to...
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PART 1 - THE FRAME: composing within the frame
This part looks at the use of the viewfinder to compose well balanced pictures.The AoP course concentrates on design and production of photographs rather than the technical issues and equipment and...
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Exercise: Fitting the frame to the subject
I remembered there is an attractive water pump in Rostherne village. The residents light fires in front of it and I think roast chestnuts there although Ive never stopped to have one. It’s a lovely...
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Exercise: Objects in different postition in the frame
I called into Tatton as I thought there were some objects for this exercise, but the gates to the hall were closed and I ended up snapping the shield on one of the gates. Exposure was impossible and...
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PROJECT : Focal lengths
This part starts with a discussion on angles of view, and the efect of using different focal length lenses. Ive already disovered the "standard" focal length of the camera (the fl which gives the same...
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Exercise - change of focal lengths, position fixed
I did only three pics for this as I used a zoom lens with fairly narrow range – the point was illustrated I think. The light was poor as it was a dull rainy day and getting on in the afternoon...
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Exercise: Focal lengths and different viewpoints:
This exercise is to study the effect of composition when using different focal lengths. If the position of the camera changes, the perspective will change too, and this exercise illustrates it by...
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Exercise: Balance
The exercise is to choose 6 pics from my previous pics and analyze them for balance, by first identifying the dominant elements, and then to schematize them by by drawing rectangles to enclose, and...
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Exercise: Horizons
To discover how changing the position of the horizon will change the picture. A photograph can include a horizon, or the horizon can be the photograph. I found by positioning the horizon in the...
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Exercise: Cropping
I found three images from my collection and cropped as per the exercise. There were many choices and if there are enough pixels some photographs can make maybe 10 or more images each with a different...
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ASSIGNMENT 1: CONTRASTS
Completed my first assignment with images from recent trips out. I find having an "assignment" a little restrictive as things that catch my eye on a trip may not be those needed for the assignment. I...
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Points
Phew finally got back to posting, year end work was a distraction. Ive gone onto part 2 "Elements of design", and the first exercise is about placement - in the first exercise this is to invistigate...
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