Category: Lab Exercises (Page 2 of 3)

Photograph one stuffed animal at each station. The goal is to get the widest range of moods in your photos including happy, sad, surprised, angry, fearful.

Use the light to create different moods while also using everything you know about composition including angle of view, framing, and so on.

Put your twenty best in an album on Flcikr and send your best two to the class group.

Photograph flowers with continuous lights.

Floodlight– light is diffused and wraps around the subject hitting it from many angles. shadows are soft.

Spotlight – light is direct and hits the subject from one angle. Shadows are hard.

In-class Flower Shoot Camera Settings:

• Resolution=RAW
• ISO=100-400
• WB=Flash
• Shooting Mode=Tv
• Shutter speed = 1/125
• The camera sets the aperture

Every shot has a flower in it as the main subject.

A. Front light: reduces detail, low contrast

Make the light a floodlight by diffusing the light with a soft box. Place it close to the camera position and subject.

B. Side Light floodlight with diffusion: brings out texture.

C. Side Light spotlight: brings out texture, high contrast

To get the background to fall off to black, increase the distance between the subject and the backdrop and angle the light so that it falls on the subject not the background.

D. Extreme close-up for texture-use extension tube

E. Back Light (white background): high contrast, reduces subject detail

Light the background only. Increase the distance between the background and the subject to increase the difference in the lighting ratio and to achieve a silhouette.

Put your best 20 in an album on Flickr. You must include at least one for each category. Please label your images accordingly so know what you intended. Send your best two to the class group.

Working with a light or lights, draw an image over time in the frame. Experiment with thin and thick lines, abstraction, words, and images.

Using a speedlite, add a person to your shot. The more the subject and the light painting interact, the more successful your photos will be.

Upload a minimum of 20 images to Flickr. Send your best two to the class group.

Freezing Motion:

Set the shutter speed to 1/500 or 1/1000. Capture a range of subjects in motion creating a minimum of 15 photos that freeze the motion.

Blurring motion: use a tripod. Start with a shutter speed of 1 “. If your photos are too bright look for a darker place to shoot. Combine something moving and something that is still and sharp in every frame. You can tell a short story like Duane Michals or create a minimum of 10 photos that contrast blurred motion with a sharp environment.

Put the final 25 photos in an album on Flickr. Send your best blurred motion and your best frozen motion to the class group.

2 pts. Work with a shoe. Take a series of photos of that shoe from different angles and with different cropping until you get 20 photos of it that really look different. The goal is to take as wide a range of photos of the shoe as possible. The way to get this wide range is by using different ways to compose and light the shoe. The shoe should be the main element in every photo.

Shot list:

Framing

• Long shot
• Medium shot
• Close-up
• Extreme Close-up

 Angle of view

• Worm’s-eye view
• Low-angle
• Eye-level
• High angle
• Aerial or Bird’s-eye view
• Oblique angle

Focal Length

• Wide Angle – zoom out
• Telephoto – Zoom in

Line

• Horizontal Line
• Vertical line
• Diagonal line

Balance

• Rule of Thirds
• Balanced/Symmetrical
• Off-balance/Asymmetrical

Space and Perspective

• Shallow Space
• Deep Space

Put your 20 best photos of the shoe in an album on Flickr.

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