Unit 2 Relationships - Using Different Lenses and Techniques

Throughout Unit 2 I have used the same camera, the Canon 1200D, but I have used a wide range of different lenses, including the one shown in the photograph below, I used this for many shoots but mainly shoot 3, my Wildlife shoot, this lens is a Canon 75-300mm lens, and gives a great depth of field when fully zoomed, as you can see by my images from this shoot. 

When conducting my wildlife shoot I used I tripod, which I set up in my garden, and also some bird seed to attract any animals, I left the bird seed there for a couple of days before starting the shoot, so the birds would get use to it, I set the camera to 1/4000, the highest shutter speed.

Advantages of my method

• Using the 75-300mm lens meant I could zoom in and get close up shots of the wildlife.
• Using a tripod made it easier to take clear photographs as the further the lens is zoomed out, the unstabler it gets.
• Using the 75-300mm lens enabled me to get great short depth of field.

Disadvantages of my method

• Although I wasn't up close to the wildlife, the Canon 1200D has a loud shutter, which meant you only really had one shot at getting the picture right for each animal.
• Using manual focus meant I spent a lot of time trying to focus the camera, and some of the birds were too quick for me to capture.
• The lens did not have image stabilisation so unfortunately some of the images came out a little blurry, meaning it took longer to get a good shot.