Spinning a Yarn

Each week in my photography class we are set a homework assignment so we can put into practise what we have been talking about. One of the most valuable things for me in this class will be the journal I can put together at the end of all these assignments! I thought I would also share them here with you- you might know this all already, you might not care, but you might find it helpful! (Also good reference for me to look back on.)

This week was Depth of Field

All photos were taken at 400 ISO. The numbers in brackets are the settings I used. Click on the photo to get taken to a larger version where the differences should be more apparent.

Part 1.
To illustrate the role of Aperture in DOF.
Set the lens at 80mm (35mm equivalent) and fill about 2/3 of the frame with the subject.

a) Maximum Aperture (f4.0 and 1/80s)

b) Mid Aperture (f11 and 1/10s)

c) Maximum Aperture (f22 and 1/2s)

Part 2.
To illustrate show how moving closer or farther away from the subject changes DOF.
With the lens at 80mm (35mm equivalent) set the aperture at f8.

a) Roughly fill the frame with the subject.

b) Half fill frame with subject

c) Eighth fill frame with subject.

Part 3.
To illustrate the role of focal length in DOF, and also the flatteneing effect of longer focal lengths.
Set aperture at f8 and frame the subject so it occupies approx 2/3 of the frame for each focal length.

a) Shortest Focal Length (28mm)

b) Mid Focal Length (84mm)

c) Longest Focal Length (300mm)

…through the veiwfinder of my smart new E-410, as eluded to a couple of weeks ago. Oh how slack have I been? I’ve been taking a photography night class at one of the lcoal high schools- community education is the new black!

A couple of photos I captured on friday:

On saturday I went into an op-shop looking for some knitting needles and came out with several peices of cotton and two sheets in fantastic condition (the blue fabric on the left). It was my lucky day.

Also found: a small cluster of mushrooms.

I made a knitting bag for a friend for her birthday, complete with homespun yarn, needles and the promise of knitting lessons.

For the bunch of flowers you sent for my birthday.

a) When it is (almost) a marrow

b) When it is a chocolate cake

I’ve been wanting to try this recipe for a while. A friend has a garden at work, and when this beauty grew over the weekend I jumped at the chance to make one of these cakes. So moist and rich (all white flour, no chocolate chips, slightly more zucchini than called for.) Delicious.

My rainbow dyed singles from the other day have become wool.

All wound up into centre pull balls for plying.

Curly-wurly straight off the bobbin.

After a nice wee wash’n'dry. I must use these scales to photograph wool more often.

What to do with approx 1.5 oz (my scales don’t do metric) of rainbow dyed wool?

Nice DOF right? (More on that note to come….)

A distant ocean crashing against my spinning wheel.

A rainbow emerging from my microwave.

Incredible depth achieved by 3 ply.

Street stencil + Pedro

I need to go back with another set of hands and get low and close.

A good weekend filled with Love to all.

I have neglected you so colour+colour. Here is a poor attempt at photographing a moving flower.

And because I took it:

Also not as good as it could be. But it’s better than nothing right- because that’s all I have to offer you otherwise.

at Etsy.

I’ve got 3 necklaces up there. Who knew adding items took so long??!!