aperture

Aperture is the size of the lens hole. A small number equals a large hole, and vice versa. A small number is best used for small or moving objects as closer objects will be in focus and the shutter speed can be faster as the large hole lets in a lot of light at once. A larger number is like a wide-angle lens and will get most of the picture in focus, it also needs a longer shutter speed so as not to under-expose the picture, so it is used for landscape

 the pictures of the bag are using a small F. (aperture) number, you can see the close to detail, but the background is indistict

 the shots of the room are using a large F. (aperture) number, almost the whole of the picture is in focus

street photography

Street Photography is a documentary photography based on capturing interesting and funny situations the photographer sees. The photographer 'sees and reacts', thus capturing a moment.

Street Photography has evolved since stating with August Sander to become a form satire, rather than pure documentary.
Matt Stuart is an established street photographer, much of his work very clever as well as humorous.









On our shoot we went to 2 locations, the first being the area between Millennium Square and Victoria Gardens; the second Briggate high street and the street next to it.
The ISO was set to about 200, shutter speed 1/125 and aperture F.11

 the picture all appears to be in height order, a wholly unintentional, but works wonderfully

 taken from the hip, interesting enough, i suppose

 man on bike 2

the other photographer, it was very windy, this picture makes her look a little like Frodo Baggins

 a ticket warden no where near any cars

 the foliage in the foreground makes the subject look like she's being stalked

 In and around Millennium Square I was able to photograph several people, on bikes, walking around etc, although some of the best were of my photography partner (in the picture above. We used the zoom quite often as we didn't want to get very close to the people we were photographing.

 I saw this interesting old couple surrounded by young people and shops aimed mostly at young people and thought the couple a little ironic.

 The main use of Leeds City Centre

 this interesting little dark alley way led to several nice photographs being taken, though not strictly what we were supposed to be photographing. 

 he looked lost, made for some photography in my opinion

 I dont like this photograph the large blue column at the side jarrs with the rest of the picture

covering her head from the rain, the woman in the fore ground is the main interest in this picture.

the course...

I'm loving everything about this course, except the blog... I tend to avoid computers, my friends have to practically hold a gun to my head to get my on one. This blog is, infact, very awkward

shutter speeds

Shutter Speed is the length of time the shutter is open for, the shorter it is open for the less movement there appears to be in the photograph, very short shutter speeds are used for sports, capturing movement. Longer speeds are used for landscapes and intentionally blurry pictures, such as light drawing.

Our lesson on shutter speeds was first spent on long shutter speeds and light drawing.
ISO 800 (I later changed this to 80 on my camera to make the light stand out and the background fade black), shutter 10 seconds

initial experimentation over, we went off in pairs or groups to make our own pictures

this was more experimenting, rather than drawing

a man

a red light picture

a heart picture, we made several of these using another camera and 2 lights












Fast shutter speeds are mostly used for movement, ISO 1600 (the picture was very dark on anything lower) , shutter speed 1/400