Category: Lab Exercises (Page 2 of 3)

Make global adjustments on each example:

Photo credits from left to right: Marcel Roman, Peter Carnival, Alan Castillo Perez, Joel Barbecho

Working with your partner, select your partner’s single best photo. Tone it in Lightroom. Your partner will also adjust the same photo. Compare your results. Now, reverse it. Your partner picks their favorite of your photos. And you both adjust it.

For full credit for today’s lab, put your corrected versions of 6 final photos in an album on Flickr: the first four photos are from the exercise – everyone is correcting the same ones, the last two are unique to you and your partner.

Look for and photograph in places that are both darker and lighter and use exposure compensation to get the look you want.

• Take at least 10 shots that are lowkey – most of the tones are dark
• Take at least 10 shots that are highkey – most of the tones are light

Backlight

Backlight is one of the most common challenges for the camera meter.

Take at least 10 photographs of your classmates or other subjects against the sky.

• Use negative exposure compensation to darken the subject to a silhouette.

• Use positive exposure compensation to brighten the subject and over expose the background.

Landscape/cityscape photos

The sky is much brighter than the ground. Take at least 10 photos showing a range of location shots of DUMBO, the park, the skyline with and without the sky. When your composition includes the sky use positive exposure compensation to take a second shot in which the ground and the buildings are well exposed ie brighter and the sky itself is overexposed.

Post your 5 best lowkey hots, 5 best highkey shots, 5 backlit shots and 5 cityscape photos to an album on Flickr.

Send your best of each to the class group.

On our field trip:

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. Shooting with Av, use f/22 as the f/stop.

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. Sometimes the closest thing should be in focus, sometimes the thing in the mid distance and sometimes the thing in the far distance. Make sure that your shutter speed is fast enough that the blur in the photo is shallow depth of field and not motion blur.

Put your 30 photos in an album on Flickr. Send your single best example of perspective and your single best of shallow depth of field to the class group.

Freezing Motion:

Using the shooting mode Tv (time value), set the shutter speed to 1/500 or faster. Set the autofocus to AI Servo. Capture a range of subjects in motion creating a minimum of 15 photos that freeze the motion.

Blurring motion: use a tripod. Also, using the shooting mode Tv, start with a shutter speed of 1 “. use the AF mode: One shot. 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. 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 single best blurred motion and your single best frozen motion to the class group.