My Fifth Photo Assignment: Architecture

My fifth photo assignment ended up being architecture. I enjoyed this assignment very much, and I thought that it was the most fun out of all of the assignments that I've completed so far. It was not easy, but I got to go around Ann Arbor and take some pictures of the familiar landmarks there. Originally my goal was to get only about fifty pictures but I ended up getting ninety pictures because I had so much fun with the assignment, and I decided to take a lot more time on it. Most of the pictures that I have featured in the slideshow were taken after I cleaned the lens thoroughly. The picture of the Michigan Plaza gate was an example of a picture that I had taken before this, because I didn't realize that there were fingerprints all over the outer lens, and for around half an hour I was taking pictures with the dirty lens thinking that I was making mistakes adjusting the composition triangle. This caused huge problems for me because it wasted a lot of my time. Another problem that I had experienced was the fact that some of the buildings were in a very corwded and busy urban environment. The picture that I took of the State Theatre sign was an example of this because I had gotten my camera ready at the right position to take it, and then a bus pulled up in front of me and unloaded its passengers, and I had to wait to snap the photo. I even had a situation where another photographer was taking pictures everywhere on the campus, and I didn't want to get in the way so I had to wait for him too. Although these were issues, I had very little trouble with the composition triangle, and most of my pictures had great shadows and light sources there wwasn't a real challenge with that.

My Best Photo: ISO: 400 Shutter Speed: 1/1600 Aperture: 5.0

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