ABC Open Work SHop

Today Luke Wong, Producer for ABC Open at Orange, held a work shop on DSLR aperture skills.   He held a session at the Bathurst Library where he went over the finer points of our cameras.  

Most DSLR cameras feature a built in adjustable diopter correction system. This means it's not necessary to attach a lens to the camera to adjust the diopter setting. Simply look at the focus indicators through the viewfinder and at the same time turn the diopter adjustment knob, the correct setting is found when the focus indicators appear to be in focus and sharpest.

It means for those of us who need to wear glasses we can take them off as the camera compensates for us!  How clever is that!  Explains why my images were blurred when taking pictures with my glasses on!

We then went over the finer points of Aperture and Depth of Field before releasing us into the wilds of Keppel Street Bathurst.

Our brief was:

Depth of field using, the lowest aperture setting to the highest aperture setting and to see the difference in the depth of field.  We also had to play with out white balance.  White balance is a setting in the camera for the various conditions we encounter when taking photos.  For example

Flourescent
Tungsten
Kelvin
Cloudy
Shade
Full sun

Here are the photos I took.  

I now have a better understanding of how depth of field works as it is all in how close you are standing, what you are focusing on, your ISO setting and the light.