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Shooting Tight.

Shooting Tight.
I went to Senior Night at DHHS basketball game. I decided to take some images using my 75-300mm zoom lens.

This was a bigger challenge than I expected.

First the gym is so small, using my full zoom limited what images I could take - even standing on the very back wall. I could not capture the entire logo in the center of the court. Being in such a tight zoom, it was difficult to track the action; making it hard to get any kind of context to the story.

The second challenge surfaced when I decided to play with shutter speed (trying to capture motion). Many of my images came out blurry because of my experimenting. Lesson learned.

I also used too high of an ISO setting, making some of my images grainy.

Over all my photo skills improved throughout the night (even though the images may not show it) as I played with settings. I also took a few images in a wider angle, which I will post later.

In Shooting Tight, this small space the only images that really told a story were those of the faces - which were the easiest to capture. In this tight angle, I was never able to gain context.
Getting the shoot was also difficult because I was so zoomed in I was unable to properly track the movement of players, coaches or the ball. One picture I posted specifically to show the vacuum of a zoom lens which made it impossible to tell what was acutely happening - the movement of the player looks stagnate when in reality he was running down the court.

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This is the image previously mentioned 

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Bracketing

I will want to do this again with an image that has a deeper depth of field than my kitchen table.  

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Shooting Wide

Shooting Wide - I decided to chronicle my adventure of checking out a few library books.  
In "Shooting Wide," the first issue I came across was the HCC building was coming across empty and cold because I could not focus on any one point. The HCC is extremely open and spacious; it was hard to make it feel warm and cozy.
 I adjusted my ISO to allow more light into the sensor. This helped give the HCC a warmer, more neutral feeling - compared to a large cold dark room I was getting with shooting wide.

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The image above illustrates another challenge for "Shooting Wide" in the HCC.  I have light coming in from all kinds of angles; this includes the windows to the ceiling lights. 

Another aspect I had to deal with was to adjust my body rather than to depend solely on the zoom. In many ways, this helps the image to feel more natural since my lens is not extremely wide. This allows one to see the horizontal glass panel that normally would get cut off with a zoom lens. Having to adjust my body became a challenge when I positioned myself in between the narrow bookshelves. Trying to get the right angle was difficult because everything was in the shot. 

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Using a wider angle made everything seem slightly more ominous than I would have liked. 

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I wish I would have tried more shots by changing the height of the camera. When comparing the top and bottom photos, the top one tells a much deeper story. 

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I was forced to use the bookshelf as tripod because using I was using the wide angle and wanted to get as many books as possible in my photo.  This meant I had to rely on AF because I could not view my screen.
I also like the slow shutter speed here, despite nothing moving. It really allows the light in, giving a brighter, happier feel - with the colors more saturated. 

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I started to wonder what would happen if I stepped in front of the camera on a slow shutter speed...
I found it interesting as well as a great story telling technique; because you can see both the book and the student making their book selection. This probably goes under editorialising the image, but I had fun playing with it. 

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As one grabs a book off the shelf and walks away, the books then re-shift on the shelf and come to rest in a new spot. I was pleased with how the shutter speed caught the movement of the books. Something we don't think about as we pull a book off the shelf. 

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Another shot where the wide lens affects the story by giving a wider perspective. On the right side of the picture, you can see that there is not only a wall but also a pathway to somewhere. I like the wider angle because it shows the big picture... one sees the bookshelves on the left and the empty desks on the right. We know where we came from and at the end of the day the journey of knowledge must be walked alone. 

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