Reflection

I expected this to be a relatively challenging exercise, and it was. I was short on time, but thankfully had my camera on me on a trip to Central Square, and forced myself to ignore my uneasiness with shooting in public. I started taking photos and on my third shot I was actually trying to adjust something and was “testing” my camera, then realized that I had to shoot just 10 photos. I’m still oddly pleased with how the third photo turned out. 

I set my camera to aperture priority and even though I was in shade I felt ISO 400 would be the safest bet as I maneuvered. I was hesitant to shoot people, as you can tell from the first eight photos, and being rooted to one spot just felt awkward. However when I saw the little dog coming down the sidewalk, I lowered my camera and pre-visualized and then waited for what I thought was a good distance then shot. The photo of the three women were taken the same way; trying to previsualize what I wanted in the frame and gauge focus as they walked towards and then past me. I was incredibly pleased to see that the two photos came out focused even if a bit off-kilter. I actually like the angle that the last photo especially was taken at. 

When I came to export my photos, I realized that while I had tried to capture variety in my scenes, all the photos seem to be tied to a central theme of the sparse winter branches, and I realized looking back that I used them as a framing reference to add interest to the scene I was shooting, especially the shot of the sky and of the buildings. 

I think I would want to repeat this exercise at some point to continue to figure out how to effectively previsualize my shots.