A good hands-on week, with practical videos on the use of the Dodge and Burn tools, the Clone and Healing tools, Removing Vertical Perspective Distortion, and Straightening a Tilted Image, all of which I can do

Here are the Learning outcomes for this week:

1 How lenses help gather and focus light
2 What do we mean by focus?
3 Field of view and magnification
4 Effective focal length and camera shake
4.1 Effective focal length
4.2

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Lots of discussion of motion this week, and different camera settings to achieve that, as well as different lighting effects. I must admit that it got too mathematical for me at times, but they did say ''You don't need to know this bit..'' so I will go back later when my brain hasn't so many other things to worry about.

I tried a few experimental shots related to the topics, some of them interesting, some less so. Your thoughts very much appreciated. I went for an old fashioned edit

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This week we 'focus' upon focal length and ISO settings, as well as the art of the crop tool. There is also some discussion of colour, and how we and the camera see it. Today I started messing around with ISO settings, rather than having it set on auto. Likewise the f-stops.

Here are two images which were experiments in the above.

The first has focal length of f/2, and ISO of 1000:

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Started the OU T189 Digital photography: creating and sharing better images course today. It is a ten-week course, with a different assignment each week. I will report on each week as I work through the course. Comments and questions welcome. The fee is £205, for which I got an ILA Grant of £200 - so it cost me a fiver They give you for free a fully working copy of Photoshop Elements 8

This first week seems to consist of two parts - a very general discussion of what makes

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Seems only KK does any blogging round here...I'd like to see more. So here goes...

Sorry to start my blog with a disappointment, but I just picked up a developed film from Jessops, and the results were not good. It is the first film for which I used a zoom lens, given to me by a music student of mine. It was a nice gesture by him, but the images are poor in comparison to my previous images with this camera, a Pentax K1000. Either I don't know how to use a zoom lens ( very likely!)

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