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Edinburgh College Photography Department

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Ronnie Baxter - Lecturer in Photography - Edinburgh College – Sighthill Campus

Outcome: 2 Summative Assessment Name: Patrick Munro Unit: Theory


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Task 1: Produce a series of three photographs showing the effect of ‘Depth of Field’. Use three different apertures to demonstrate this, for example: f2.8, f8 and f22. Set up your photograph and focus on a point near to you for all three shots, this will insure that the focus remains constant during this project. Remember to alter ‘shutter speed to compensate for aperture change and keep ISO constant

f/29 1/15 ISO100 18mm Patrick Munro


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f/4.5 1/500 ISO100 18mm Patrick Munro


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Task 2: Produce a series of three photographs showing the effect of Shutter

Speed’. Use three different shutter speeds to demonstrate this, for example:

½ sec, 60th and 250th. Choose a subject through which you may illustrate

movement and the freezing of this. Remember to alter aperture to

compensate for shutter speed change and keep ISO constant.



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Task 3: Produce a series of three photographs showing the effect of lens

‘Focal Length’. Use three different focal lengths on a zoom lens or use three

‘fixed’ focal length lenses, for example a wide angle 28mm, a standard –

50mm or a telephoto 100mm and above. Fill the frame each time to make

the ‘crop’ similar in each shot.



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Unit Evaluation Outcome 3 Summative Assessment Name: Patrick Munro Unit: Theory Introduction

Here I will evaluate the images I photographed for Outcome 2 in the theory

unit. In said Outcome there are three tasks. A task to showcase depth of field,

shutter speed and focal length respectively.

Outline

These tasks were set to provide visual representations of a series of

techniques and features. The techniques in question were, Depth of Field,

Shutter Speed and Focal Length. To show the effect of these techniques

three images are taken in series for each technique. For depth of field, an

image on f29, one on f10 and one on f4.5. Thus showing a far depth, mid

depth and short depth. For shutter speed, an image on 250th of a second, 60th

of a second and ¼ of a second. Lastly for focal length the three images were


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all focussed on one point and using a zoom lens, change the focal length from

100mm, to 200mm, to 300mm.

Positive Aspects

I believe that my work on task 1 is of a high quality as it shows the intended

technique clearly and brings an interesting composition to the task at the

same time, I have also managed to keep light levels at a near constant

throughout the three images. In task 2 I think I show the purpose of the

technique in a simple and understandable way. On the first image I did do

most substantial editing and made the subject more defined as well as

brighten the subject. In the third task I chose the base of a large structure with

trees framing the bottom half. I believe that these images show the

capabilities of a large variety of focal lengths nearing the long end of the

scale.

Areas for Improvement

I believe that to improve my work on task 1 I should have chosen a more

interesting subject that incorporated more of the space in the photo. In task 2 I

think that the first image should be brighter to match the set, I also think that

the background of the image should be changed to a more typical white

backdrop. In my opinion task 3 would be improved with a more interesting

subject that made the purpose of the task clearer such as a still life set or

anything really with a more than one clear focal point. I believe that most, if

not all of these problems if I had managed my time more efficiently. Giving

myself more time for recces and reshoots would have helped dramatically.

Evaluation of Learning

During this task I wouldn’t say that I learnt anything dramatically new, the task

did however reinforced my knowledge on the subjects which now allows me to


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use these techniques in full confidence. I believe that task 2 brought a more

interesting technique to the capturing of the images. This is because I wanted

to photograph the ball bouncing vertically upwards. This required me to set a

timer on the camera and drop the ball onto the surface at a very precise time,

so that the camera would capture it halfway through it bouncing back up again

and not as I was dropping it or after it had bounced out of frame.

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