Exercise 1

It has taken a while for me to get started on this course due to work commitments. I decided to undertake a photo shoot of my eldest son for the first work flow exercise.

The work flow I chose to use is below:

Exercise 1: 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 spot for subject with unobtrusive background.
3. Direct pose.
4. Take three photographs from far to near (start with full body then work to head and shoulders only.
5. Lower aperture re-take the pictures in sequence.
6. Review pictures in camera play mode
7. If necessary lower aperture and return to step 4
8. If required change pose as directed by review and then return to 4.
9. Download images.
10. Create folder for images in the appropriate place.
11. Delete images that are no good.
12. Separate raw and JPGs
13. Edit photos that have been selected

The work flow worked OK for me and I managed to get around 30 photographs and then selected two to edit.

Step 1 was fairly straight forward and the auto mode gave a good indication of the available light and appropriate settings.

Step 2 was OK as there was a fairly neutral background available.

Step 3 and 4 merged into each other as the direction and the varying ranges went hand in hand.

Step 6 involved a quick review of the photos and it was clear that the aperture setting was OK at the lowest level.

The final steps all involved post processing and storing and all worked fine.