My Final Excercise

After speaking with Robin today we discussed what I could do for my last exercise. He suggested that I shoot a drama scene twice similar to what I did with my sensor size experiment. Except this time I would shoot on the same camera, most likely the Canon 5D if I can get a hold of one. I will shoot the scene once with a zoom lens using whatever focal lengths are convenient to get each shot. I will then capture the same shot sizes with a fixed lens, probably a standard 50mm. By using a fixed lens I should have to work harder to get the shots I want. For example I may have to move actors into frame etc and not simply zooming out slightly. I propose that the scene shot with the 50mm prime lens will be more aesthetically pleasing. Firstly, I’ll have to take more care with every shot I take. Secondly, because all the shots will be taken with the same focal length they will appear more uniform. One advantage of fixed lens is that they generally can shoot at faster apertures than zoom lens. However this won’t be relevant in this particular exercise as I’ll be shooting on same f-stop on both lenses.

 

As I am not great at coming up with ideas for things to shoot I plan on simply sourcing a scene from a TV show or movie and adapting it to whatever space/actors/resources I will have. I’ll post further on this once I know exactly what I am going to shoot. If I can get hold of someone with a car and hire a camera tomorrow I am going to shoot my in-car scene.

Until next time,

Luke

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