Creative Practise Landscapes - Ex.2 - Scale & The Rule Of Thirds Images

"With the widest focal length lens you have access to you should produce two images that explore and demonstrate the use of ‘scale’ to inform the viewer about the space depicted. To do this you should place an object in the foreground in one image and the same object in the middle ground or background of the second image." - direct quote from the exercise guidelines.

I used my Nikon D3500 for each shot and a tripod. I used the native ISO of 100. The metadata for all these images includes my name, my contact details and copyright information, the time and calendar date, and the lens and aperture used for the image. The size of the images are all 168mm x 252mm, 150 dpi, jpeg (at quality setting of 10). My camera has a crop sensor of 1.5x.

Foreground scale shot:

18mm lens (27mm with crop factor), f/3.5, 1/160 sec, ISO 100.

Background scale shot:

18mm lens (27mm with crop factor), f/3.5, 1/60 sec, ISO 100.

"With the telephoto lens you will produce three images that explore the ‘rule of thirds’. You will compose one image in landscape format and one image in portrait format. For the third image you will try to demonstrate how the 'rule', can be broken, bent or altered to the benefit of your composition." - direct quote from the exercise guidelines.

Landscape rule of thirds shot:

300mm lens (450mm with crop factor), f/6.3, 1/50 sec, ISO 100.

Portrait rule of thirds shots:

(right) 270mm lens (405mm with crop factor), f/6.3, 1/30 sec, ISO 100.

(left) 270mm lens (405mm with crop factor), f/6.3, 1/30 sec, ISO 100.

Breaking the rule of thirds shot because the object is in the centre of the frame:

300mm lens (450mm with crop factor), f/6.3, 1/30 sec, ISO 100.