Exercise 1: Focal length and angle of view

Being completely new to photography the first exercise seemed relatively straight forward.  I understood that on my full frame camera a focal length of 50mm would be equivalent to the actual size of the image as seen through the view finder, and on cameras with a cropped sensor this would be different.  I didn't think the subject matter was important and as I was still learning the basics of my camera I shot what was close at hand.

I used my 24-105mm lens and set it to 50mm.

50.0mm EF24-105mm f/4.0 1/40 ISO1600

I then set it to its widest angle of 24mm and shot the same subject.

24.0mm EF24-105mm f/4.0 1/20 ISO800

I then zoomed to the longest telephoto length of 105mm and shot the same subject for the third time.

105.0mm EF24-105mm f/4.0 1/80 ISO3200

In retrospect, I think the subject is important whatever the purpose and an more interesting photograph could have been taken.  That said, I did learn more about the camera and started to understand the importance of focal length when composing the photograph.