Assignment 1 - Pairs of contrasting images

Rounded - ISO 80 10mm f1.8 1/160

Diagonal - ISO 800 10mm f2 1/320

Hard - hard toys, hard light, hard mess, hard being
 ISO 100 50mm f5.6 1/200 speedlight

Soft - soft curves, soft light, soft touch, soft person
ISO 100 24mm f2.8 1/160

Moving
ISO 100 10mm f7.1 1sec

Still
ISO 80 10mm f1.8 1/320 (don't know why I chose these values)

Continuous
ISO 400 20mm f3.5 1/250

Intermittent
ISO 800 10mm f1.8 1/250

Liquid - although there is a solid here too
ISO 80 10mm f4.5 1/160

Solid - but you can see through it
ISO 100 10mm f1.8 1/640

Transparent
ISO 80 10mm f1.8 1/25

Opaque
ISO 400 10mm f2.5 1/160

Dark - in daylight
ISO 125 10mm f5.6 1/800

Light - different forms at night
ISO 800 23mm f3.5 1/40

Sour - sometimes it's difficult not to be
ISO 1600 10mm f2.2 1/80

Sweet - he tries hard not to be but it still gets the better of him, thankfully
ISO 800 10mm f2.5 1/40

Exercise: Fitting the frame to the subject

1 - Fitting the Frame to the Subject

Take 4 photographs of a subject; conventional, placing the subject in context, detailed shot and filling the frame.  

Using the notion from the previous page of the course document that everything we look at is a potential image I used the land line phone in our front room because I was stuck indoors and couldn't go out at the time.  It's not a very good-looking object.  It's pretty dated and is hardly used.  However, it has become a symbolic object in our family that engenders a wide range of emotions from all of us for various reasons.  

I do like that I have used such a basic object - is it a bit utilitarian?

I didn't really succeed in getting the detail shot so had to crop - I must have misread something when I did it (a few weeks ago) so it's not as sharp as it aught to be. I've also tried it in black and white to see if it improves it - not really.

I think it can sometimes take me a while to start concentrating... I wonder if these shots demonstrate that!

conventional f5.6 1/30 iso 200

in context f5.6 1/30 iso 200

fitting the frame f5.6 1/30 iso 200

detail f5.6 1/320 iso 200

detail in black & white as above