Task 1

Okay, here we go... baby is sleeping (yay!) so Mom has time to post her results from her DLS Exercises:

For task 1: I used baby toys in my kitchen simply because that was the most readily available item and a tidy enough area to set them up in - not necessarily pleasing to the eye but it works... Had to use a tripod to deal with camera shake but it seemed to help and I didn't have to up my ISO. The pictures aren't perfect but they are done...

TASK 1

Find a nice bright spot to take a picture - a kitchen, bedroom, or living room floor with lots of natural light would be ideal, or this could be done outside. Set up a series of 7 similar or identical items in a row, each about 12 - 18" apart from each other. Be as creative as you like - they could be anything from beer bottles to baby bottles, Hotwheels, Barbie shoes. You could make a train of some sort with your kids. You could put pinecones on the snow. You could ask 7 friends to stand in a row. Really, the sky is the limit...

Disable your flash, set your camera to MF, AV f3.5, ISO 200. (Remember, your zoom may need to be at the widest angle to get to f3.5!) Standing at one end of the row, focus on the object closest to you. Take one picture. Note how many of the objects are in focus at f3.5, and adjust your aperture one f-stop at a time until ALL the objects are in focus, WITHOUT readjusting your focus. How many f-stops did it take you? Note the light and what the camera set your shutter speeds at - did you have to deal with camera shake at all? If you had trouble getting pictures with higher f-stops, what would your options be for increasing the shutter speed without altering the depth of field? Hint - law of reciprocity only has 3 parts: light intensity (aperture) sensitivity (film speed) and duration (shutter speed).