Composing and shooting photos

a) Shoot 4 different types of photos:

1. portrait
2. nature
3. close up
4. free choice of type

b) Write and tell what has been your idea in composition, lighting, setting etc. and explain and justify your decisions referring to theory and samples.
 

1. Portrait

In this picture I used Canon's 100mm macro f2.8. F-stop 2.8 is the lowest and I wanted to use it, because I wanted a lot of light and blurry edges in the picture. ISO 500 was maybe a bit too big, I should have used manual mode, but I had the automatic mode on (luckily there's not that much noise in the picture). The picture was also taken in daylight, although indoors.

2. Nature

In this picture I used Tamron's 28-75mm zoom f2.8. Shutter speed is very long: 6 seconds, because I wanted the water to look soft. Of course I also used a tripod. F-stop 32 is very big, because I didn't want blurrynes in the picture.

3. Close up

This picture was also taken with Canon's 100mm macro f2.8. This lense is very good for close-up pictures, because you can take life-size images with it. F-stop is 4, because I wanted to get the rings as well as the book in focus, but also blurry edges. ISO is 3200, because I took the picture in dark (there's a bit noise in the picture because of it). Shutter speed was 1/160, so I got enough light, but also steady picture.

4. Free choice of type

This picture was taken with Sigma's 8mm fish-eye lense, because I wanted to get as much space as possible in the picture. Shutter speed was quite small 1/3 s, because there wasn't that much daylight left and the picture was taking indoors (I also used a tripod). ISO 3200 is very big as well.