In week 4, after completing the extra credit task I decided to also write up a reflection on the week. Considering that most of my explaining of how I completed the task was written up on the actual task sheet, this weeks reflection will be shorter than others. This week’s workshop was focused around different F-stop numbers to use on a camera. Whilst I didn’t personally have a camera to use I managed to find a similar effect on my phone.
Initially this was actually a challenge, whilst my Samsung phone is compatible with ‘portrait mode’ it is not like a typical I-phone camera. Instead of blurring the background and focusing on the subject of an image with a low setting, it would do the opposite. Instead, this effect was achieved by using a higher setting on my phone camera, which was confusing to get to grips with initially but after some playing around I managed to figure things out.
Photographic Journalism 