PROJECT  –  LINES EXERCISE 1.   HORIZONTAL, VERTICAL, DIAGONAL AND CURVED LINES While I was looking for subjects to illustrate lines in images, I was very taken by stacks of straw bales, large round bales and lines of cut stalks in local harvest fields.  It was a windy day of cloud and sunshine and the light was constantly changing […]Read Post ›

 EXERCISE  –  CROPPING For this exercise I have taken 4 of my archive photographs and cropped them with my software cropping tool to change the frame and the appearance of the image.  I have posted both the original photograph and then the cropped image with a description as to why I chose the cropped frame that I […]Read Post ›

VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL FRAMES The natural inclination for many photographers is to take all their photographs in horizontal (landscape) format unless the shape of the subject clearly dictates that a vertical (portrait) format is more appropriate.  As is shown in this exercise, virtually any scene can be shot in either format to create attractive images […]Read Post ›

EXERCISE   –   POSITIONING THE HORIZON Whilst I was visiting the coast at Strumble Head, I took a few photographs of the sea / sky horizon.  The otherwise blank horizon was made more interesting by the presence of a distant island and also a dark band of shadow.  I framed the shots through the viewfinder […]Read Post ›

EXERCISE 1  –  FOCAL LENGTHS The aim of this exercise was to use different lenses and a range of focal lengths to photograph the same subject in order to demonstrate the different images that resulted. For the exercise I visited Strumble Head in north Pembrokeshire and set up my Canon 7D on a tripod on a cliff […]Read Post ›

A SEQUENCE OF COMPOSITION For this exercise I chose to visit a local Antiques Fair in order to capture scenes of action around the stalls.  As it happens when I arrived there was little activity and dealers were desperately trying to find things to do before closing time.  I used the opportunity to try to […]Read Post ›

  THE FRAME – EXERCISE 2 Object in Different Positions in the Frame I had some difficulty identifying a suitable scenario locally when I came to do this exercise as it required a very clear subject set within a large, even background so I thought I would attempt to create something suitable by placing a […]Read Post ›

EXERCISE 1  –  FOCUS WITH A SET APERTURE. Well…. I thought it was going to be easy!  I was confident that I would have no difficulty with this exercise as I knew about the relationship between aperture and depth of field and I had every confidence that there would be no problem.  Wrong!  The purpose of […]Read Post ›

EXERCISE 2 – PANNING WITH DIFFERENT SHUTTER SPEEDS   The following photographs were taken from a boat as it returned up the Milford Haven from a trip round the Pembrokeshire islands.  The gulls were following the boat and it seemed to me to be a perfect opportunity to try a variety of shutter speeds to see […]Read Post ›