Lab 2 : Aperture

Still-Life 1 - Shallow
f/2 - 1/10 secs - ISO 100
The shallower the background is, the less information we have of the background. On this picture, our depth-of-field is very shallow which brings us almost no information on the area we are in right now. All focus is on the subject, which is the Tamron lens. I prefer this picture out of all three of my still-life pictures because of its depth-of-field. All focus is on one thing and whenever I take pictures like this outside of school, I get a little excited to post them on social media.

Still-Life 2 - Mediumf/8 - 2.5" - ISO 100
Here's the result of a medium depth-of-field. It isn't too blurry nor is it too sharp. Its as if our eyes are slowly starting to adjust to have the whole image on focus. As I've said on my other post, I like pictures with a shallow depth-of-field, so I guess this one is passable to my preferences. We can also start to determine where exactly this picture was taken. Students and teachers who often go to the school library would immediately notice that this picture was taken there, although you can't be 100% sure because the background isn't fully on focus.

Still-Life 3 - Deep
f/16 - 6" - ISO 100
This is the sharpest I could go with my 50mm lens, f/16. It is noticeably much sharper than the two others, but let's say it could've been better if I used a different lens. On this picture this depth-of-field could be considered deep, everything is sharp on the image from the background to the subject to focus on itself. Rather than having your eyes concentrated on one part of the image, you have other places to look at. We can now clearly see that this picture was taken at the library, for we see a student in the background studying and all the little cubicles. 

Architecture
f/25 - 8" - ISO 100

Portrait 1 - Shallow
f/2 - 1/100 secs. - ISO 100
This image was taken with a shallow depth-of-field, so the main focus is on the subject, in this case it's Emily. Compared to the second portrait, we see a big difference in the background of the pictures. On this one, our focus is mainly on Emily because everything else is blurred out so which should "prevent" us from looking around. On the other one, our eyes have places to look, the canvases in the background and also Emily. 

Portrait 2 - Deep
f/16 - 0.5" - ISO 100
Like I've said on the previous post, because of this deep depth-of-field, everything is pretty sharp on this image. We can look around & see more clearly the details of the art behind her.

Lab 1 : Shutter

Shooting in a busy area
f/16 - 2" - ISO 100

Motion blurred
f/16 - 1/6 secs. - ISO 100

For this image, I had to adjust myself a few times after making certain mistakes. My shutter speed would either be too fast or too slow. I had to set my shutter speed fast enough to I can "focus" the car yet slow enough to "blur" the background. After a few attempts at 1/6 and adjusting the aperture to f/16, I finally got this shot and was pretty satisfied with the results. The way this image is taken makes the car seem likes its going at an extremely fast speed, like the way you look at cars with your eye when they pass in front of you. You're focused on the car and the rest of the world is just a blur. Compared to the other picture of a frozen motion, even though this car was going way slower than the other one, because of the way it's taken it looks way faster. 

Motion frozen
f/2 - 1/500 secs. - ISO 100
This picture was much easier to take compared to the motion blur one. I had more difficulties waiting for the "right moment" because I wanted half of a car in my shot... and I didn't want just any car, so i waited a little for this one to pass. For this shot I needed to have a fast shutter speed, which leaded me to lower my f-stop to f/2. I chose this car because it sort of stands out thanks to its green on the top of the car. Also kept my ISO at 100 to avoid any possible noise. This car just seems like it's parked on the street compared to the other one, even though it was going so much faster than the truck on the other image. It's like a plain simple car just standing there, no movement at all.

Shoot hand held with slow shutter speed
f/1.8 - 1/40 secs. - ISO 400

For this image, I steadied myself by getting on one knee and placing my elbows on my other knee. I started taking shots from 1/200 secs. down to 1/10secs. , even though I knew I wouldn't use that for my blog... because it was too "shaky". Here is the result of my best slow shutter speed hand held :) 

Screenshot of hand held image closed up