Homework 9/22

Please experiment with light painting this weekend. Turn in your best work to the homework folder for 9/22.

Bubble Reflection (no pun intended)

How do you react to the idea that photography is triad relationship between 3 parties, photographer, subject and audience. Describe that relationship in the work you did this weekend shooting the bubble work.

1. What was your role as photographer? Describe what you did, how you worked with talent on camera, camera settings, concept, composition.
2. What is the role of the subject (the bubble and people who helped you form your bubbles, or the resulting great bubble)
3. What is the role of the audience as we react to your work? How do you want an audience to react to your work with this project, and others?

September 15th-Manual exposure and exposure meter in the viewfinder

Please read this excellent article on metering in your viewfinder. This article will help you to better understand how to evaluate and correct your exposure right in the viewfinder.

Exposure Metering in Viewfinder

After reading the article, find these exposure settings in the viewfinder of your camera.

Classwork:
In small groups, find a quiet area on campus to shoot a portrait of someone in your group. Shoot this photo looking through the viewfinder adjusting exposure as needed. Shoot an underexposed image, then an overexposed, then finally shoot a perfect photo. Upload all 3 photos to the classwork folder. Each group member should have an opportunity to shoot to understand their viewfinder metering and demonstrate their knowledge. When shooting your friends, try to shoot the person thinking about something, try to achieve an inner feeling through portraiture. No shooting straight at a front facing smiling face. Make it interesting.

Some places to shoot:

1. Stadium seating-someone alone 
2. On the field - even shoot someone not facing you.
3. In the library-silhouette exposure-dialing down exposure to achieve a silhouette if lighting conditions are good
4. In front of McAfee
5. Cafeteria
6. Quad under the trees
7. Hyde Park
8. Basketball court
9. In front of office

Week of Sept 9th-Golden Mean

Tuesday: Golden Mean in composition. Metering settings on your Camera.

Walk to downtown Saratoga. Shoot with the intention of using the golden mean to frame and compose a shot. Each student will hand in 5 different photos each depicting a different subject used to study and capture the golden mean. AT LEAST ONE PHOTO WILL USE PANNING AND ONE PHOTO WILL USE HIGH SHUTTER TO FREEZE AN ACTION.

How is the golden mean different than the rule of thirds? How are they alike? Which is more useful to a photographer? Is one just the lazy cousin of the other? (This prompt will be answered at the end of the day Thursday in the comment section of this post).

Thur Agenda:

1. Photoshop Crop Tool and Golden Spiral (10min)
2. Photoshop Revision to 9/10 shoot (downtown saratoga) (20 min)
3. Topic discussion: Metering
4. Photoshop Revisions (cont.)
5. Upload classwork
6. Cover weekend assignment

Thursday: Photoshop Golden Mean-Crop Spiral.
You will crop, align horizontals and make image adjustments to photos from the week, including your homework from 9/8 and the classwork from the downtown Saratoga shoot.
When complete you will upload your finals.

Thursday Topic:
Metering-determines which part of the frame or scene is being evaluated to determine exposure. This is useful in auto and some semi-auto modes (P, Av, Tv).

To better help you understand what your camera can do, look up how to change the metering on your camera using your online manual or google search result (Camera model, metering)
(See picture diagram at bottom).



Homework: 
 

You will make a series of photos based on the topic 'bubbles in daylight'. This will require that you have bubbles (a trip to the drug store might be needed for bubbles), and get a friend (or little kid) to help you. You will create 3 shots:

1. Blowing a bubble
2. Bubble floating, (person in shot with reaction to bubble-like a kid, or a cool reflection)
3. Bubble popping (high shutter-get the pop if you can)

Make sure you hand in your result by Sunday evening 8p to the google drive homework folder dated 9/15. Email Mrs. L if there is a problem.

Homework Reflection-Sept 9th

Reflect on your work based on the concepts below and suggest a grade (out of 10 possible points)

1. Was this work completed over the weekend as assigned, or did you upload something from the classwork from Thursday. Remember, the purpose of the classwork is to learn and practice the concept, the weekend work is to perfect the process or learn more about the concept. You may not fully succeed, but not trying the concept on the weekend will not further your understanding and practice of photography. (and from a grading standpoint-it's a 0)
2. Was the object moving at a rate fast enough to track?
3. Did you track the object at the rate of its speed?
4. Did you keep your arms tucked close to you and track with a movement of your waist to reduce as much camera shake?
5. Are you shooting in a normal to lower light setting? Remember, shooting a noon in the bright sun caused problems. So we discussed not shooting in the brightest part of the day with sun beaming down straight overhead.
6. Do you believe your shutter speed was low enough, such as 1/30th-1/60th or thereabouts?
7. If in manual mode, did you adjust your Aperture and ISO to reduce light if necessary, or are your photos overexposed?
8. Is it a good subject for a panning shot?
9. Did you think about where you were standing relative to the moving subject you were shooting and did you plan your shot in terms of framing? (How close were you to the subject, how did you frame your shot?)
10. Did you try to perfect the process over the weekend at least for an hour?

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