AoP: Exercise 1 - Focal Length and Angle of View

Exercise 1 asked us to shoot a scene using:

1) A natural zoom - something that closely matches our day to day perception of the world.

2) A wide zoom - the angle of view which encompasses the maximum amount of scene.

3) A long zoom - an angle of view which blows up detail and shows close-up detail.

1) 35mm zoom

2)18mm zoom

3) 55mm zoom

All 3 shots were taken without moving the camera.

I then uploaded the shots to an iPad and offered them up against the scene whilst standing in the original camera position and tried to match the image into the scene.

1) The natural shot needed to be held at an intermediate position.

2) The wide shot needed to be held very close.

3) The long shot needed to be held at arms length.

Conclusion:

Changing the zoom factors of a zoom lens, or changing between prime lenses of different lengths is comparable to viewing a scene through different sized windows.  The perspective and alignment of objects within the scene is unaltered by the choice of lens, but the field of view is.

My shot notes detailing exposure and zoom settings can be seen below: