Category: Lab Exercises (Page 5 of 6)

Backlight

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

Take at least 10 photographs of your classmates of 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 lease so 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.

Note that if you are shooting with a rebel, these cameras often cannot hold the detail in the bright areas. Take some photos with the sky to experiment but also think about ways to frame your photos so there is no sky.

Post 10 backlit shots and 10 cityscape photos to an album on Flickr.

Send your best of each 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 one or two of each category to the class group.

Perspective is the creation of the sense of 3 dimensional space in a 2d photograph.

There are two central techniques for this:

• converging lines
• diminishing scale

Create a minimum of 10 photos that use perspective to create a strong sense of space.

Upload your photos to Flickr and put them in an album.

Send your single best photo that uses perspective to the class group.

2 pts. Find a subject. It could be a bridge, a dog or a person, a tree, a flower or something else altogether. (Try to stay away from street furniture.) Take a series of photos of that subject from different angles and with different cropping until you get two photos of the same subject that really look different.

The goal is to take two photographs of the same subject that are different in composition and mood. Make your subject look big in one and small in another, symmetrical and asymmetrical, cute and fierce, pretty and ugly, strong and delicate just with the crop and angle of view that you use.

Repeat for a minimum of 10 subjects. Select a range of subjects from huge such as a bridge to small such as a bee.

Once back in the classroom, download your photos and create an album in Flcikr with your final 10 pairs of photos.

Select the two photos of your most radically transformed subject and upload medium versions of them to a post on OpenLab with a description of the angles and other compositional devices you used to transform the subject.

Category: Lab: Week 2- Angle of View