Digging Deep

#Day 1:

SRFTI/ /(bright sunny)morning :D

This day is like any other usual days in the campus except that it marked the very beginning of “Lighting and Lensing Workshop with Tanmay Agarwal”.

The class started with few basic ground rules which Tanmay sir set for us, such as everybody has to be on time, all the phones have to be switched off during the class hours and have to be kept on the table. If anyone of us fails to follow any of these rules that would mean facing certain punitive measures.   

The class started with the very basic question which is ‘What is the first thing we look for when we see a picture?’ after he threw this question to us we all were thinking to come with an accurate answer. Breaking the silence he asked again do we look for the lens, ISO, magnification, aspect ratio and all that technical terms ? no, only good pictures captures our attention. Hence on basis of what I got as what he meant is:

#RULE1- Click what attracts you.

#RULE2- Never click a picture to impress, click to express just as writing or any other creative work.

Post lunch:

We were asked to click a ‘GOOD’ picture of  any of the bridges in our campus. Everybody set out to look for their ‘Good’ picture of ‘The Bridge’.

So we began our exercise of the day which I would like to call as ‘On, Under, By, Around the Bridge’.

Meanwhile Tanmay sir managed to click a picture of few of us clicking the pictures which he showed us later in the class.  I should have taken that picture from him:p 

After ten fifteen minutes we went back to the class with whatever pictures we clicked. 

These were my pictures which are my ways of looking at the bridges of our campus. 

Few of them were liked and few were disliked by my classmates. The exercise taught me of having your own perspective of looking at things and how your perspective can be beautiful to some and not to some. Still having a perspective of your own and expressing what you want to through a photograph is the job of a photographer.

Before ending the class he popped a question 'does human eye have variable focal length (zoom lens)?'

To answer that I goggled few things about the human eye and I got to know the basic structure and functioning of human eye.

Instead of film, the human eye focuses light onto a light sensitive membrane called the retina.

The cornea is a transparent structure found in the very front of the eye that helps to focus incoming light. Behind the cornea is a colored ring-shaped membrane called the iris. The iris has an adjustable circular opening called the pupil, which can expand or contract depending on the amount of light entering the eye.

Situated behind the pupil is a colourless, transparent structure called the crystalline lens. Ciliary muscles surround the lens. The muscles hold the lens in place but they also play an important role in vision.

When the muscles relax, they pull on and flatten the lens, allowing the eye to see objects that are far away. To see closer objects clearly, the ciliary muscle must contract in order to thicken the lens.

he retina is the innermost of three tissue layers that make up the eye. The outermost layer, called the sclera, is what gives most of the eyeball its white color. The cornea is also a part of outer layer.

mbedded in the retina are millions of light sensitive cells, which come in two main varieties: rods and cones.

Rods are good for monochrome vision in poor light, while cones are used for color and for the detection of fine detail. Cones are packed into a part of the retina directly behind the retina called the fovea.

When light strikes either the rods or the cones of the retina, it's converted into an electric signal that is relayed to the brain via the optic nerve. The brain then translates the electrical signals into the images we see.

But I am still not clear about the focal length being variable or not. So I don't think I can answer that now. Looking forward to get the answer through proper understanding in the next class. :)

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