Category: Homework (Page 3 of 4)

4 pts. Due Sept 27, 12 noon. 30 photos in an album on Flickr.

Shooting outside during the day at a location of your choice:

Take at least 10 different long shots that use perspective to depict deep space. This can be either converging lines or diminishing scale or both. These photos should use extensive depth of field meaning everything from near to far should be sharp. If you are shooting with a cameraphone, achieving extensive depth of field will be easy.

Take at least 20 different closeups that use shallow depth of field. The subjects of the photo need to be at varying distances from the camera. Somethings the closest thing should be in focus, sometimes the thing in the mid distance and sometimes the thing in the far distance. Of course sometimes, its not a thing but a person.

If you are shooting with a cameraphone, it can be challenging to achieve shallow depth of field. Please don’t use an app or portrait mode for this assignment.

Get close to the subject and allow for some real distance, actual space between the foreground object and the background.

Put the 30 photos in an album on Flickr. Send your best photo with deep space and perspective to the group as well as your best example of shallow depth of field.

For this assignment, I went to a few spots scattered over the weekend, taking shots in Queens and the City. I went to places such as areas in Forest Hills and the Metropolitan Museum on Fifth Ave; the reason I chose these places was because the museum was for the ease of capturing a photograph in one spot, for instance, I took photographs of statues, relics, and other artifacts I found interesting. In Forest Hills, the largely woodsy neighborhoods have old style houses that are great for taking up the frame—filling the frame.

I also included some night shots that looked great; check them out.

In the link provided, I put together an album of photographs from my visit. Enjoy!

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAUuRP

Working outside in the day, freeze the motion of athletes and bike riders, dancers, jumping dogs. Try at least two different types of subjects ie soccer players and bikers, kids on swings and dancers. Capture the decisive moment. The soccer player when their leg is fully stretched out in a kick, a bike rider doing a wheelie. Don’t be shy. Fill your frame with the action.

Use a shutter speed 1/500 sec or faster.

If using a cameraphone outside in bright light, it will automatically use a fast shutter speed. If you are working with less light, use lightroom or other app that lets you set the shutter speed.

Post shots of at least two different activities to an album on Flickr for a total of 40 shots. Please don’t include all of the times you missed: shots out of focus, the back of receding bike riders, etc. Just your best work. Send your best two to the class group.

Due Sept 20, 12:00 noon.

Imagine that you have a hula hoop. Put it on the ground (during the day in a place with good light) and do not step out of it. You could also think that you are in one of those social distancing circles that have been drawn in some parks. Take 10 photos without leaving the circle. Use every strategy that we have discussed in class: angle of view, close ups and long shots, negative space, filling the frame, diagonal lines, leading lines, to make the most interesting and varied photos possible from that one place.

Find two more spots and repeat for a total of 30 photos.

Post to Flickr and put in an album.

Due Wednesday, September 13 at 12 pm noon.