Because I’m visiting a semi-rural area with no
transportation of my own, I’ve been relegated to shooting what’s available: the homes, yards, streets, and people of the
neighborhood. Not a bad project, really, as it forces you to
search and look a little deeper. I set
out yesterday morning with two goals in mind:
images of the area’s signage and completing the latest exercise.
The object this time was to examine the effects of focal
length (something first done in Exercise 1).
My 18-55mm kit lens allows for some variety in focal length, though
nothing so dramatic as might be achieved with a dedicated telephoto or super
wide angle. The results of the morning’s
shooting are shown here in two series.
The implications
are rather obvious and are noted in the course notes: as focal length increases, angle of view
decreases. It seems Freeman may have
written the course with film in mind, when such effects were not immediately
viewable on a computer screen or via an LCD, when you had to wait a day or two
to get your negatives process and prints made.
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