Exercise 9: Developing Your Confidence & Exercise 10: Capturing The Moment

OCA – People and Place

 

Exercise 9: Developing your confidence

 

The purpose of this exercise was to choose an outdoor situation where there

will be lots of people and activity. Review the photographs and recall the comfort

level you felt at the time.

 

I visited Cambridge City Centre for the day.

 

A Nikon D700 camera, a Nikon 24-70mm lens and a Nikon 50mm lens were used

during this exercise.

 

 

 

Photograph 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had spoken with the subject and asked her to just stay as she was. There was no

issue with taking her photograph and I felt comfortable with asking permission.

 

Photograph 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This photograph was taken from some distance with a telephoto lens. Using the

equipment within a busy city centre gave me no problems.

 

 

Photograph 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I took this photograph whilst waiting at a pedestrian crossing. The subject had

just looked up to check the traffic, and then went back to using the phone.

 

 

Photograph 4
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These girls could see I was about to take their photograph, they smiled after it

was taken.

 

Photograph 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Again, this girl was happy with having her picture taken and we talked afterwards.

At no time during this exercise did I have any issues with taking photographs

within this setting, either with a telephoto lens or by asking the subject if it’s

ok to take their photograph.

OCA – People and Place

 

Exercise 10: Capturing the moment

 

This exercise required you to find a ‘comfortable’ situation and concentrate on finding the ‘best’ moment to capture the photograph.

 

A local car repair centre was used during this exercise.

 

A Nikon D800 camera, a Nikon 24-70mm lens and a Nikon 105mm lens were used during this exercise.

 

 

Photograph 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This photograph was taken whilst the mechanic was working on one of the many machines in the workshop. I wanted to capture the concentration and the sparks flying off the lathe.

 

Photograph 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I took this photograph because I wanted to capture the concentration of the mechanic, whilst carrying out a car service.

 

Photograph 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A different mechanic carrying out an inspection and I tried to capture the moment of concentration.

 

Photograph 1 is the image where I believe the main aim of this exercise worked best. The concentration and sparks help to add some activity to the image.