PRACTICE: First practice shots

In my first week practising photography I needed to experiment and get to grips with the basic settings of the Nikon D7000 DSLR Camera in the class session - aperture, shutter speed and ISO.
I chose to shoot in the new Jubilee building on the University Campus, which I hoped I may be able to extract and identify interesting compositions and details from its architecture.

As you can see from the image above, at first the image I produced was out of focus, with a large amount of light flooding the image, possibly due to the aperture setting being too low (f. 2.8) combined with a slow shutter speed (1/2).

After altering the settings, I was able to manually adjust the focus, and increase the aperture and shutter speed settings.

By reducing the shutter speed further, I was able to highlight the spots of light in the image radiating from the lamp and light fixtures of the building and the natural light through the windows.
I continued to focus on isolated light sources in the building, as well as attempting to form interesting compositions through close zoom on shapes created by light paths and inverting/tilting the camera lens to subvert the viewer's eye and create an unusual perspective.