This week we began properly using digital cameras to take pictures for a story. I was excited about this as I didn’t know much about digital cameras and was only used to using my phone camera to take photos to accompany my articles.
The task we were set out to do was to find somebody from Leeds who has an interesting story about the city, interview them and take their photograph.
I managed to speak to Aldyth Hardaker who has lived in Leeds for 53 years and had some interesting stories about the city. I voice recorded our interview and took her picture using a digital camera. I felt comfortable with the interview but as it was my first time using a digital cameraand getting use to changing the aperture settings, I found it quite nerve-wracking. However I was happy with the results.
I managed to get pictures of Aldyth where her face was in sharp focus and it was blurry in the background. I achieved this by setting the F-Stop to 4.0 and using the skills I acquired from last weeks workshop.
I worked alone on this story which made the task more challenging but has improved my confidence significantly. I am looking forward to working on more stories, especially my project, where I can experiement with headshots and aperture settings.
Ellie Bagshaw Photography Journalism 