White Balancing Act
Shoot a subject in one type of lighting (daylight, fluorescent, tungsten, etc.) and shoot one shot with each white balance preset to see the difference in the color of the photos. Upload those photos to a folder on Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket, etc. and create a link back to your blog. Upload a sample photo to your blog that represents this assignment and include the link back to your photo site. Write a few sentences about your experience with this assignment on your blog.
If this is too tough, at least shoot the white balance exercise, create the blog, and register with Picasa or one of the other photos sites. Upload your assignment to the Photo site. We will go over how to link your photo site to your blog in class.
Assignment 2:
Assignment 2 -Portrait and ISO
Using ISO on your camera, shoot a portrait of someone both inside in low light and outside in bright light. The point of this assignment is to see how ISO affects your exposure and the look of the photo. At lower ISOs you should see very clean and sharp images. At high ISOs you might see noise or a grainy look to the images. For the portrait, try to notice how the light can make a person look good. Try to make a portrait that is like a nice portrait that you have seen in a book or magazine. Don't use the flash on the camera. Make sure to use your zoom lens at telephoto and wide angle to see what that does to a person's face. Make sure to get some where you are zoomed close showing only a person's head and shoulders.
Assignment 3:
Assignment 3 -Photojournalism
Tell a story with your camera. Have a beginning, a middle, and an end to the story. Think in terms of all the different shots in a movie. Close ups, wide shots and telephoto are some examples of the types of ways to use your lens to get the photos. Shoot around 100 images to edit later in class.
Assignment 4:
Assignment 2:
Assignment 2 -Portrait and ISO
Using ISO on your camera, shoot a portrait of someone both inside in low light and outside in bright light. The point of this assignment is to see how ISO affects your exposure and the look of the photo. At lower ISOs you should see very clean and sharp images. At high ISOs you might see noise or a grainy look to the images. For the portrait, try to notice how the light can make a person look good. Try to make a portrait that is like a nice portrait that you have seen in a book or magazine. Don't use the flash on the camera. Make sure to use your zoom lens at telephoto and wide angle to see what that does to a person's face. Make sure to get some where you are zoomed close showing only a person's head and shoulders.
Assignment 3:
Assignment 3 -Photojournalism
Tell a story with your camera. Have a beginning, a middle, and an end to the story. Think in terms of all the different shots in a movie. Close ups, wide shots and telephoto are some examples of the types of ways to use your lens to get the photos. Shoot around 100 images to edit later in class.
Assignment 4:
Assignment 4 - Electronic Flash
Shoot at least 3 different types of flash photos using your camera's flash.
Shoot at least 3 different types of flash photos using your camera's flash.
1. Shoot something with the flash to stop motion. Have somebody jump and try to catch the peak of the jump. Stop a running child in action, throw something up in the air and snap while it is still suspended.
2. Use slow sync or night portrait mode or whatever term your camera manual might use to describe mixing electronic flash light with available light. Shoot the photos similar to the photos on the links for this week's class. For this shot, try to get a nice balance of foreground and background.
3. Still using the slow sync mode that you shot #2 with try to achieve a mix of flash and moving light by moving the camera during the exposure. Refer the the photos in the links for electronic flash
Assignment 5:
Assignment 5 - Landscape
1. Use your exposure compensation on your camera to make three exposure of a single scene. The first should be at the 0 setting, the second at the -2 setting and the third at the +2 setting. We will work with that photo in class.
Assignment 5:
Assignment 5 - Landscape
1. Use your exposure compensation on your camera to make three exposure of a single scene. The first should be at the 0 setting, the second at the -2 setting and the third at the +2 setting. We will work with that photo in class.
2. Shoot photos inspired by Ansel Adams. Try to include a foreground, middleground and background in your landscape images. Shoot at least 50 different shots of landscapes or cityscapes.
3. Adjust your aperture on your camera to small apertures such as f16 or f22 to get an increased depth of field. If your camera doesn't have and aperture adjustment, don't worry about this part of the assignment.
4. Use the exposure compensation if necessary to get a more accurate exposure in your camera.
Assignment 6 - Architecture
Using all the techniques we've studied so far, photograph a single building inside and out. Make sure you adjust your white balance, ISO, Exposure Compensation, and focal length of your lens to get a nice portfolio of images. Shoot at least 20 interiors and 20 exteriors.
For the interiors, you might consider using a tripod. If you have the ability to adjust your aperture, you might want to set it at f16 or f22 to ensure a wide depth of field.
Shoot at least one photo that we can use Photomatix to turn it into an HDR image. The exposures should be -2, 0, +2 that you adjust using your exposure compensation. If you have auto exposure bracketing, you might consider using that feature. Set your camera to aperture preferred and the focus to manual.
Assignment needs to be completed and uploaded to your blog by 3/12/10 at 3pm.
Assignment 7 - Portrait Lighting With Artificial Lights
Use whatever lights around the house to shoot a portrait of a person. No pets. Try to use the 3-point lighting technique we looked at in class. Shoot as many photos as necessary to get 20 good shots. Make sure to adjust your white balance, ISO, focal length, and exposure compensation to get the best exposures. We will make a 16x20 enlarged print from these images to display in the lobby (if you have a print voucher). Look at the links in Blackboard for inspiration.
Assignment 8 - Macro
Use your camera's macro setting to get shots that allow you to focus as close as possible. Most macro settings will allow you to focus as close as the size of a business card. Push your camera to the limit of how close you can get. Shoot any subjects to illustrate how close you can get.
Assignment 9 - Black & White
Convert 10 -20 images to B&W using the techniques shown in class. Find images that lend themselves to B&W. Use PhotoShop if possible, or Picasa if you don't have access to PhotoShop.
Final Project - Assignment 10 - Video With Your Digital Camera
Shoot at least a minute of video with your camera and upload it to YouTube and link to your blog. If you have a digital SLR and don't have a video option, shoot time lapse or create a slide show and upload to YouTube and link to your blog.
