Exercise 13

What: The brief of this exercise was to take 20 photographs of compact scenes holding the camera in a horizontal landscape position and then to take 20 photographs of the same scenes holding the camera in a vertical portrait position.

Where: Various locations – I have been aware of this exercise when I reviewed the course notes. I have been taking photographs or reviewing one I have taken previously to see if they are suitable for this exercise.

When: All different times of the day in differing conditions.

How: Holding the camera in the both positions I took 20 photographs of varying subjects. I tried to analyse what I was doing as I went along as I was well aware that I would be influenced by how I was holding the camera as to what I would photograph. Holding the camera in portrait made me at first look for tall subjects, holding the camera in landscape made me look for wide subjects.

Once I had got over this initial thought process I started to look for subjects outside of that constraint and look for good compositions based on what I could see.

The main point of the exercise was to show that with a bit of work and thought compositions could be made to work in both aspects.

f5.6 1/400 ISO 800 200mm (35mm equivalent 300mm)

f5.6 1/640 ISO 800 200mm (35mm equivalent 300mm)

f11 1/125 ISO 800 55mm (35mm equivalent 82mm)

f9 1/125 ISO 800 55mm (35mm equivalent 82mm)

f3.5 1/13 ISO 100 105mm (35mm equivalent 157mm)

f3.3 1/25 ISO 100 105mm (35mm equivalent 157mm)

f16 1/250 ISO 500 18mm (35mm equivalent 27mm)

f16 1/400 ISO500 18mm (35mm equivalent 27mm)

f16 1/320 ISO 500 55mm (35mm equivalent 82mm)

f16 1/320 ISO 500 55mm (35mm equivalent 82mm)

f4 1/1250 ISO 800 24mm (35mm equivalent 36mm)

f4 1/2000 ISO 800 26mm (35mm equivalent 39mm)

f18 1/400 ISO 800 55mm (35mm equivalent 82mm)

f18 1/400 ISO 800 52mm (35mm equivalent 78mm)

f18 1/50 ISO 800 28mm (35mm equivalent 42mm)

f18 1/50 ISO 800 22mm (35mm equivalent 33mm)

f18 1/160 ISO 800 46mm (35mm equivalent 69mm)

f18 1/160 ISO 800 38mm (35mm equivalent 57mm)

f18 1/60 ISO 800 18mm (35mm equivalent 27mm)

f18 1/100 ISO 800 18mm (35mm equivalent 27mm)

f7.1 1/60 ISO 250 48mm (35mm equivalent 72mm)

f7.1 1/125 ISO 250 55mm (35mm equivalent 82mm)

f7.1 1/500 ISO 320 19mm (35mm equivalent 28mm)

f7.1 1/400 ISO 320 38mm (35mm equivalent 57mm)

f29 1/6 ISO 100 31mm (35mm equivalent 46mm)

f29 1/6 ISO 100 38mm (35mm equivalent 57mm)

f16 1/6 ISO 100 55mm (35mm equivalent 82mm)

f18 1/6 ISO 100 34mm (35mm equivalent 51mm)

f10 1/250 ISO 320 200mm (35mm equivalent 300mm)

f10 1/250 ISO 320 200mm (35mm equivalent 300mm)

f14 0.3 ISO200 12mm (35mm equivalent 18mm)

f14 0.4 ISO 200 16mm (35mm equivalent 24mm)

f2.8 1/160 ISO 100 11mm (35mm equivalent 16mm)

f2.8 1/160 ISO 100 11.5mm (35mm equivalent 17mm)

f7.1 1/4 ISO 100 16mm (35mm equivalent 24mm)

f7.1 1/4 ISO 100 16mm (35mm equivalent 24mm)

f4.8 1/60 ISO 1250 35mm (35mm equivalent 52mm)

f4.2 1/160 ISO 1250 30mm (35mm equivalent 45mm)

f4.5 1/200 ISO 100 105mm (35mm equivalent 157mm)

f9 1/125 ISO 400 105mm (35mm equivalent 157mm)

f8 1/125 ISO 500 55mm (25mm equivalent 82mm)

f8 1/125 ISO 500 48mm (35mm equivalent 72mm)

I do feel that this was a good exercise I have learned that it is possible to compose an image no matter what position I am holding the camera in,

it

can be made to work in both landscape and portrait positions. I had fun with this exercise, learning as I went.