For this weeks activity, we tested different focal lengths. First, I took a series of three images of a person. The subject stayed in the same position for all three images. I moved my position backwards with each shot to ensure that the composition of the shots remained the same.
The shots were taken on a Nikon D3500 DSLR using a wide angle to normal zoom lens ranging from 18mm to 55mm and another zoom lens that was telephoto from 70mm to 300mm. All shots were taken using aperture priority mode, f9 with an ISO of 100.
Due to my camera having a cropped sensor, I did not take the crop factor of 1.5x into account at the time of shooting but will add these details and adjustments as a footnote to each image.
For our second activity, we tested focal length with a static landscape shot using a tripod and the same three focal lengths as the pictures above. The tree in the center of the frame is the focal point for all three shots.
In this activity, by remaining in the exact same place as each shot was taken, we can clearly see the different results in each photo as the field of view becomes narrower with each shot.
To finish the activities, all files were imported into Adobe Bridge, opened with Adobe Camera RAW and lightly edited to compensate for less than ideal lighting conditions before being saved as JPEG files.
Amber Lyons Photography 