OUR APPRENTICE says…

For this shot of freshly baked bread Olly told me to shoot from higher up. The top of the loaf had risen and cracked wonderfully in the oven and that, combined with a light dusting of flour, made it really interesting to look at from above. Olly encouraged me to go handheld for this shot, to give me a bit more freedom to move around. However, my images were too blurry, as my shutter speed was quite slow, so Olly suggested boosting my ISO to 640, which enabled me to use a shutter speed of 1/125 sec – just fast enough to keep the image nice and crisp when shooting handheld on a 105mm lens. It was useful shooting in manual mode to see the exposure triangle working in full swing.