For this exercise I decided to take photographs during a camping week end at Heidelberg that also involved a two day visit to the German GP at Hockenheim. I took lots of pictures on the first day then reviewed them overnight and tried to improve on them at the second day by following the routine of following the work flow. The work flow was pretty similar to the one used in exercise one but allowed for longer review process.
Exercise 2: Work flow
1. Prepare camera.
- Check battery
- Check IOS setting at 100
- Set initially to auto to check the recommended settings- note them down
- Set Aperture priority with setting directed in auto mode.
2. Find appropriate subjects.
3. Take picture, review shot to see how can be improved immediately.
4. Retake photograph with different aperture or shutter speed settings or lens.
5. Review pictures in camera play mode in slow time.
6. Decide how pictures could be improved next day or which shots worked best.
7. Take pictures with improvements/different perspective.
8. Download images.
9. Create folder for images in the appropriate place.
10. Delete images that are no good.
11. Separate raw and JPGs.
12. Edit photos that have been selected.
The steps in the work flow all worked OK. Because of the high speed nature of the event it as difficult to utilise different settings with same shots but wherever I could I did.
The first set of photos were the ones taken on day one to give inspiration:
I wanted to get a spectator shot with colour.
There were lots of flags but this was clear on review that this was not a good shot.
This shot had colour but little else of interest.
The exposure on this shot was not good enough.
By following the work flow I was able to take much better shots on day two. As below:
I tried to get the colour and the car in the shot with a wide lens
This was a fast shutter speed to try and capture the car
This was a close up with wide aperture and telephoto lens on 105mm
