Assignment 2: People and activity

This assignment calls for approx 10 images of people engaged in activity. The theme for my set of images is based on Tourism in Scotland. More specifically the images of different people were all shot within a period of a few hours on a sunny weekend day around one of the main tourist areas in Edinburgh, the Royal Mile and the Edinburgh Castle. The shots feature both consumers, the tourists, and producers, those providing tourist services.

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Successful and unsuccessful techniques

Unsuccessful

• I have not found the larger telephoto lenses (say up to 200mm) so good. My 70-200 is a very conspicuous white metal lens with a massive lens hood and once its pointing at people they notice and react. A lot of shots of peoples' backs is not ideal and so I opted not to bother with these tele extremes for this assignment.
• I am mostly not happy with the image quality from a compact PAS so opted for a full size DSLR even though it makes you more obvious.
• There were a few potential subjects I saw but didn't manage to catch, including a stag party with the guys wearing tartan hats and fake orange hair. Maybe a bit more running might of helped!

Successful

• I had a nice bright day so opted for ISO 100 in the sun and ISO 200 for some of the more shaded areas. I then put the camera on Aperture Priority at f8 giving shutter speeds of 100th sec plus. I then just made slight adjustments of f stop up and down as needed. With evaluative metering this allowed for quick shots, forgoing any exposure compensation and relying on a little highlight recovery from the raw files later.
• By being in a busy tourist area with lots of people carrying cameras I mostly drew little attention.
• I opted for a zoom with a wide to semi tele range allowing for quick adjustments. The wider angles were good for putting people in context and allowed me to get really close.