Exercise: Developing Your Confidence.

Due to some family issues and trying to run my business I have had no free time to even consider photography. I did manage to have a couple of hours out in Cambridge, my nearest city, to make a start on this next set of projects.

I am hoping to get back on track now and so I have taken a few days off work to write up this project and hopefully shoot a few others.

We were to choose an outdoor situation where there are lots of people and activity in which we can feel confident using a camera. This next set of projects filled me with dread in some ways as photographing strangers makes me worry that I will be challenged. I choose Cambridge because I am so used to visiting that I thought it would make me feel more confident than if I went somewhere new. I also considered the fact that they are always so many tourists that I should go relatively unnoticed.

I shot around 20 images before I started to feel uncomfortable. I was really trying to shoot without being noticed which made it quite difficult to really capture peoples expressions.

I have selected a few of my photos below, I have tried to show a variety.

 

1/600 f5.6 ISO 200 90mm

 

1/600 f5.6 ISO 200 105mm

 

1/1600 f5.6 ISO 200 105mm

 

1/1000 f5.6 ISO 200 105mm

 

1/640 f5.6 ISO 200 105mm

 

1/640 f5.6 ISO 200 105mm

 

1/400 f5.6 ISO 320 105mm

 

1/400 f5.6 ISO 320 105mm

 

Looking back at the images I think I did slightly better than I thought I would but I have used along focal length. I think this was to create distance between myself and my subject, again so that I wouldn't be seen. I think that I will head back to Cambridge for a couple more exercises as I now feel slightly more comfortable.