Focal length Experimentation - Image bank

Telephoto:

This photograph is an example of telephoto, it completely blurs the background, causing you to only be able to focus on the subject of the photo which is the dragonfly, I really like this because it blurs the background so much, whereas usually you only blur it a little bit to bring a bit more focus to the subject of the photo.

Zoom Lens:

Zoom lenses allow you to become closer or further away from your subject. The image above shows the zoom lens very well because if you put the exposure time high and zoom whilst it is taking the photograph, this is the result you will get, it looks as if the flowers are getting closer to you.

Fixed Lens

This is a fixed lens photograph, it was shot with a fixed 65mm f/8 camera, fixed lens cameras are good because it means you already know their field of view, they are also more challenging, you have to make the subject fit what you can take photographs of, you can't change the f stop to make a specific photo work, you have to move around so that it will work.

Focal Length Experimentation - Straight Images and technique

18mm

24mm

35mm

45mm

55mm

This series of photographs should've worked really well, however I had to change the battery and when I did that the aperture changed and I didn't notice, this meant that the photographs after I changed the battery are slightly darker. Although I still think they worked well overall.

55mm

45mm

35mm

24mm

18mm

I like this series of photographs, I think that it worked well and I managed to keep the same headspace more or less as I zoomed out. However the last photograph of this series is possibly a bit close to the camera.

To do this technique I kept the camera completely still on a tripod. 

I then did two different series of photographs, in the first one I zoomed in each time whilst not moving the camera at all, I didn't think this was that interesting as it was just looking at how different focal lengths change a photograph, however I liked the second task where we had to keep the subject in the same headspace whilst still zooming out, meaning that I had to move the camera. I think this worked really well as it meant we could see how focal length changes a person in a photograph.