– Learning photographie –

The camera we can borrow at the school

As I chose the photography class, I’m allowed to borrow a camera at the school, so I had the chance to try a reflex device. It was a real challenge for me because I’m so used to take pictures with just my phone. We had theorical lessons in class about how the camera works, and then we had some projects to work on.

The first project was on the depth of field. We had to make a set of 3 pictures based on a specific depth. I chose to take pictures of flowers with a low depth of field.

Here are the results :

Its was difficult at first to understand all the different controls and there impact on the final pictures, but I quite happy with the results for my first try.

The seconde project was to create a set of 4 pictures based on showing movements.

I decided to do portraits and try different ways to show movments, by moving the subject or lens.

Here are the results :

This as been a total new experience to me and made me want to make even more progress in photography.

For our next project we will us low-tech devices, such as a phone or a vintage camera.