Welcome to Morat's Assignments. This is the first in a series of challenges aimed at keeping our photography (or other medium) fresh by working to an assigned scope. There's no caedes gallery or flash prize for this and the rules are simple. All you have to do is take a look at the assignment and decide if you'd like to do it or not. Assignments might involve a technical aspect of imaging, artistic expression or virtually anything else.

I'll try not to exclude anyone, so you won't see any "post an image taken with a 600mm lens" assignments. You might see some things that you think are just too basic for you. That's fine, just wait for the next one :)

If you do take part then your aim should be to produce at least one image suitable for caedes upload based on the assignment. Please post a link to your assignment images in this thread so that other posters can find them and offer heartfelt appreciation and constructive criticism.

Them's the rules, on with the first assignment.

No pilot takes off without running his pre-flights first and no photographer should be in the field without knowing where his buttons are. So for the first assignment we're going back to basic. Hut hut hut.

Your first assignment is to demonstrate that you know where that aperture control is. Please produce an image clearly demonstrating shallow depth of field.

Helping art happen, because that's nice.
Morat.