365 Day 9 - Getting ready for assessment

365 Day 9 - Getting ready for assessment

I am in the process of pulling together my work for my OCA course, Digital Photographic Practice, which is due to be assessed in March. I have to submit 4 assignments that I did throughout the course and one of then really needs to be redone which is what I have been working on this morning. The title of this assignment is 'Seeing like your camera' and the idea is that that you can pre-visualise how the camera will see a number of high contrast scenes, so there is absolutely no post post-processing allowed, the images have to be submitted as shot, and as I write this I realise that I needed to shoot in JPEG rather than RAW, for exactly that reason!

I am required to choose 4 from a list of 8 tricky lighting situations and shoot 3 images for each of the 4. I then need to choose one of the 4, think about how I can control the different variable in order to get a lower contrast image. Given that we have such grim weather 'high contrast' created by natural light has been something of a challenge of late!

So today the sun is streaming though the conservatory window and I grab my chance. With a piece of black card behind the orchid and the sunlight coming from about 2 o'clock this is the first of my pictures. There are a couple of hotspots in the buds in the top and the left of the flower and stem are in shadow, so should I have used a reflector? I think not as this is what the camera would have seen but I'm sure the assessor will tell me otherwise if I got that wrong!