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  • Assignment 3ii Collections Ideas

    …and some research Things This is my favorite photography genre, collections, leaning towards ‘wasi-sabi’, the broken down, the neglected and old. However, as this is a well rehearsed and ‘seen’ subject, I should challenge myself and look elsewhere. There are an inexhaustible number of ‘things’ in the world to photograph as collections. Given the short…

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  • Project 3.3 Focus

    This exercise required us to use our camera and lens to create a portrait where the focus was on the eyes. Our instructions are to “place your subject some distance in front of a simple background and select a wide aperture together with a moderately long focal length, such as 100mm on a 35mm full-frame…

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  • Project 3.1 Zoom

    Zoom with a camera lens is about effects such as magnification, compression and distortion of a scene or subject.  It is also about adding or limiting context to a subject by zooming out or zooming in (wide end of the lens). These aspects very much depend, it seems, related to the closeness of the camera…

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