Exposure Basics II – Practical Assignment

For the final part of this assignment I was asked to take 5 pictures for 5 days, for a total of 25 pictures (somehow I ended up with 488). Then I had to choose 6 of these, which was an impossible task! We weren’t allowed to edit the pictures in any way except cropping them.

I have a lot of photos that I really liked, but this learning activity was about learning exposure and including things like motion blur and depth of field, so I included examples of that. I think I will have to add a few bonus pictures at the end!

Most of these pictures were taken around 8-9 AM or 7-8 PM, because the light and shadows are much more interesting when the sun is about to set or have just risen. It also makes it easier to avoid overexposing the image.

Edit: I suddenly realized that all of my pictures have the subject in the center!

**“Friends”**
Aperture: **F/7.1** Shutter: **1/80** ISO: **200** Focal Length: **70mm** Cropped.
For English readers, the writing says: “Friends”

**Pine Cone**
Aperture: **F/4** Shutter: **1/160** ISO: **100** Focal Length: **70mm**.

**Church Ruins**
Aperture: **F/11** Shutter: **1/100** ISO: **100** Focal Length: **17mm**

**Bumblebee**
Aperture: **F/4** Shutter: **1/160** ISO: **100** Focal Length: **70mm** Cropped.

**Field**
Aperture: **F/7.1** Shutter: **1/250** ISO: **100** Focal Length: **50mm** Cropped

**Drain pipe (Motion Blur Experimentation).**
Aperture: **F/14** Shutter: **1/6** ISO: **100** Focal Length: **40mm** Cropped

Bonus Images!!!

I wanted to add a few of my other pictures, that were quite fun to take, but didn’t have the right exposure settings or didn’t quite show the full range required by the assignment. There are a bunch of other ones I would like to add, but then the purpose of this post would get lost.