8 – Vertical and horizontal frames
20 photographs twice landscape and portrait.
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| ISO 80 F5 1/160 |
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| ISO 80 F6.3 1/125 |
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| ISO 80 F1.8 1/60 |
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| ISO F1.8 1/60 |
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| ISO 80 F1.8 1/60 |
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| ISO 80 F1.8 1/60 |
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| ISO 80 F1.8 1/60 |
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| ISO 80 F1.8 1/60 |
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| ISO 80 F2.8 1/125 |
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| ISO 80 F2.8 1/125 |
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| ISO 80 F2.8 1/125 |
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| ISO 80 F2.8 1/125 |
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| ISO 80 F1.8 1/125 |
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| ISO 80 F1.8 1/125 |
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| ISO 100 F2.8 1/80 |
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| ISO 100 F2.8 1/80 |
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| ISO 100 F2.8 1/80 |
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| ISO 100 F3.5 1/160 |
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| ISO 100 F3.5 1/160 |
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| ISO 100 F2.8 1/160 |
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| ISO 100 F2.8 1/160 |
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| ISO 100 F2.8 1/160 |
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| ISO 100 F2.8 1/160 |
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| ISO 100 F2.8 1/125 |
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| ISO 100 F3.5 1/200 |
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| ISO 100 F2.8 1/60 |
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| ISO 100 F2.8 1/60 |
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| ISO 100 F3.5 1/200 |
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| ISO 100 F3.5 1/200 |
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| ISO 100 F2 1/100 |
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| ISO 100 F1.8 1/160 |
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| ISO 400 F2 1/40 |
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| ISO 400 F2 1/50 |
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| ISO 125 F3.5 1/100 |
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| ISO 125 F3.5 1/100 |
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| ISO 400 F2 1/80 |
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| ISO 400 F2 1/180 |
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| ISO 400 F2 1/80 |
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| ISO 400 F2 1/80 |
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| ISO 400 F2.8 1/320 |
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| ISO F2.8 1/320 |
I used my best friend's house for these photographs as I think she has an interesting home full of good things to photograph due to her habit of buying things from car boot sales and her aversion to anything new. She's quite unlike me! I also feel safe with her and while I don't want to live in her house I do miss some of the good things about living with her years ago. When I visit her house we can for a short time revisit some of that.
When I first started getting into photography someone I knew asked me to so some portraits. I realised at the end of that exercise that portrait was called portrait for a reason as I had taken most photographs in landscape and felt like a bit of a twit.
Last year I did lots of actor's head shots which were mostly taken in portrait as there is quite a prescribed style for Spotlight, the actor's directory, but we would also do some cheeky landscape portraits which I love doing - landscape seems to suit some faces more than portrait. And you can get more context around your subject in landscape, which sometimes works well.
I read in one of the books (can't remember which - sorry, but I think it's one I downloaded) recommended by the course reading list that people tend to rely on landscape and forget about portrait. I scoffed at this until I remembered my very first attempt at portraits - oh, yeah!
My right arm hurts after shoots now from holding the camera in portrait position.
Going through the value settings to include here, I think I am quite lazy. Or perhaps distracted. There are some settings where I wonder what I was thinking and why I didn't have a higher f stop or ISO for instance. I was using a speedlight and to be honest have only recently started using it on manual so I think I must have had it set to TTL - although having just looked through I don't seem to have used it much at all. Anyway, I don't think I thought about my values as much as I might have done and that's quite an interesting observation for me.
Finally - I'm afraid I cheated. I took vertical and horizontal as I went rather than doing all horizontal followed by vertical. I'm sure I lost something by doing it that way but I managed to complete the exercise in the time I had.
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