Photo 101 course - class 4

We spent most of our photo class this evening outside the classroom.

We spent about fifteen minutes in St. Lawrence Market practicing spot metering.

Then we headed to St. James Park to practice focus recomposing and aperture (having a shallow depth of field, ie blur). Here's a picture I took of Gord that I thought turned out nice.

Here's our instructor, Ingrid. She had us practicing depth of field. She was further from the fountain behind here .. notice how blurry it is in the first pic. She got closer to it, thus making the background more clear. Lesson learned ... if you want the background blurry, don't have your subject stand close to it.

At the end of the class, she took us to the corner of Richmond and Yonge to practice creative nighttime shots. Here's one of mine.

Only two more weeks to go. It's been an excellent course and I've learned a lot ... too bad it has to end.