Exercise - Softening the Light

The first shot is a bare lamp over the egg, giving a very harsh light. As soon as I put the diffuser on the egg you could see most of the detail.

Exercise - Variety with a low sun

Frontal Lighting

Edge Lighting

Back Lighting

Side Lighting

Exercise - Judging Colour Temperature 1

Above are the three photos I used for this exercise. The top two were done in midday sun, one in shade one not. The final one was done at sunset. The difference is quite striking.

Exercise - Judging Colour Temperature 2

f/ 10.0, 1/5, ISO 3200 - Sunlight Setting

f/ 10.0, 1/8. ISO 3200 - Shady Setting

f/ 10.0, 1/15. ISO 3200 - Auto Setting

I think out of these three I prefer the Shady Setting as there is more colour in the picture and its warmer.

Exercise - Higher and Lower Senstivity

f/10 / 1/13 / ISO 200

f/10 / 1/20 / ISO 200

f/10 / 1/8 / ISO 250

f/10 / 1/13 / ISO 320

f/10 / 1/20 / ISO 400

f/10 / 1/8 / ISO 500

f/10 / 1/10 / ISO 640

f/5.0 / 1/200 / ISO 640

f/5.0 / 1/80 / ISO 800

f/5.0 / 1/320 / ISO 3200

f/7/.1 / 1/500 / ISO 3200

f/7.1 / 1/200 / ISO 3200

For this assignment I used my fish tank, the moving bubbles and few fish were fast subjects in relatively low light conditions. The change of ISO improved the amount of available light but the graineness especially once ISO 3200 was reached was noticeable. It is an option that I used to ignore but will start using more extensively.

Interesting Pics from other students

I have been looking at the forums on the OCA student website for assignment 4 and love the below pictures.

I will be looking for a similar type of subject for mine or possibly a model to pose.. not sure how efffective texture will be on a model though

Update

I had reasonably favourable comments for my assignment 2 and now working towards the third one which is due in Mid May. There are a lot of exercises on this one and one of them requires a whole day - Light throughout the Day..

Found an interesting article on the colour of light which is well worth a read and relating to this section.

http://www.photoactive.co.uk/archives/2130