Some of the photograph's from today's course with Ashley. Ashley has an Olympus SLR with a standard lens and a zoom lens. We started by looking at moving form full auto to using the aperture priority and shutter priority because these allowed for a little more creativity. We also switched off the auto focus and started using the manual focus. Ashley did a few shots using selective manual focus and varying the depth of field focus.

We used a church yard because it ha plenty of greenery and interesting shadows. The first half of the day was very bright sunshine low in the sky. The aim was to reduce the shadows using fill flash. We also worked on composition and deciding wether to focus on the shadows or the highlights. We paid a visit to the local craft centre and did some interior shots using the skills developed earlier on.

By the end of the day Ashley was more confident using the manual settings and he was able to make decisions based on aperture or shutter speed in different lighting condition. We did cover a number of other areas but the day went very quickly. I am looking forward to seeing more of Ashley's work.

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