Project #1a – Stationary Still Life Outside

Stationary still life outside, with background 5-6 ft in the distance. Get as close as possible, set aperture 4.5, balance meter, and take photo. Same for apertures 5.6, 6.8, 8, 11, 16, 22, and 32.

Sorry to bore you with this one, but here are the results… The subjects are my daughter’s animals from her water table.

The slideshow below has the project photos. The point of this project is to see how the background goes from blurry to clear as the aperture increases. The photos have been decreased in “quality” from 12 to 6 in order to reduce the file size to roughly  800 kb.

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Personal critique: I think I should have selected a more exciting background, and perhaps not shot so close to the elephant (although the project instructions said to get as close as possible). However, I guess the point of this shot wasn’t for the pictures to be pretty, but to see the changes in the background, which I did. Therefore Project #1a is a success, as per the homework assignment.