Focal length and angle of view, focus with a set aperture and focus with different aperture exercises

I have written up my first three exercises for The Art of Photography course I am doing.  You can find them at my OCA Learning Log: http://ocalog.blogspot.com/p/index.html

Learning Log Moved To It's Own Site

I have decided to separate my learning log from my general photography blog. This will make life easier for my tutor, future assessors and myself. I do not plan to keep a paper based log so this site will be my complete log which I will use for assessment.

My OCA learning log can be found at http://ocalog.blogspot.com/

Student profile complete and emailed to my tutor

My first 'action' as an OCA student is complete :)  I was tasked with completing a student profile document and sending this to my tutor, Peter Jarvis.  This document should give my tutor some background on me as a person and my experience in photography as well as what I want to get out of the course.  Chomping at the bit to get started.

I can't find the assignment briefing sheet that is mentioned in the handbook but have asked about this on the forums.

The Art of Photography course booklist

The recommended reading list for The Art of Photoraphy course at the OCA is available at The OCA website (click here).

The Art of Photography: Course material arrived

After a mix up with the couriers my course material has arrived. It was very nicely packaged and I am looking forward to getting stuck in!

I am a student again!

I just received conformation of my enrolment on The Art of Photography course at the Open College of the Arts.  Each course takes about a year and after 8 of them you receive a BA Hons. degree in Photography.  It has been a LONG time since I have studied anything.  I hope I can keep up with it.  I am waiting for the course material so I can get stuck in.

Asian Society of Redhill Function

The Founders
Originally uploaded by The Real Amir

I took some shots at the Asian Society function. The ceiling was too high to bounce the flash from and the walls were too far away from the subjects. I resorted to high iso and direct flash photography. Lots of noise on the high iso pictures but they do not show up on small web size versions. They would show up on print though.  The rest of the set can be seen at my Flickr page.