shooting for a purpose...

when the assignment is to shoot photographs, you might think it an easy thing to do.  but given the years of having a camera in these hands, it has become a habit to shoot what I want, when I want.

But knowing that is not good enough, to satisfy the needs of an assignment and four specific exercises that must be completed for Wednesday...a plan was devised.  and construction of a shoot zone was built, items collected, and documentation was prepared.

Finally the shoot started.  It was fun to do the things that were thought up.  Will they satisfy the critical eye of KS?  one can only hope.

using a variety of tools, I had control over the light, the angle of view, the steady hand of a camera stand to control things with mobility when needed.  so much better than a tripod in a studio set up, the footprint is smaller and the wheeled apparatus can get you when you need to be in a flash.

I did do a lot more manual focus...due to the multiple items in the scene, and wanting to find a specific focus point to use.

With the stand, I was able to shift the viewfinders focus point as well.  This came in handy when I did the two heads shot.  I had two female heads and four eyes to choose from. I made four exposures, focusing on each of the each, the close eye in left face, then far eye on left face, then over to the right face and its close eye and then the far eye.  Of course, shoot again with wide ope aperture after using a closed down aperture the first go around.


Motion you ask, is there anything more classic than a metronome?