Macro Photography

For this lesson we used macro photography; we took some objects and placed them into a good light source (e.g. a lamp) and then turned on the macro option on the camera and took close up shot's of each object, we did this to show the texture and shadow of the objects.

A spinning £1 coin

Back of a Blackberry

Bubble wrap

Red Silk

Wet DvD

Shutter Speed

Shutter Speed - How fast the shutter opens and closes

f/250th of a second is large
f/50th of a second is small
Slow shutter speed is for dark conditions
Fast shutter speed if for capturing fast objects

Aperture is usuallyexpressed in f-numbers
f/2.1 is large
f/2.2 is small

High number - A smaller hole
The higher the number the higher the depth of field

Clock captured in focus