Category: Lab Exercises (Page 5 of 6)

Work by a window.

Use the Lightroom Photoshop App to shoot with.

When in the camera portion of the app, select Professional.

Reverse the camera.

Set the timer to 2 seconds. (Find the timer under the three dots on the right.)

Under Sec, you can set the shutter speed.

Take a series of photographs of yourself throwing up a small ball or object at a range of shutter speeds.

Start with a 2,000 of a sec. You will need to experiment to get the coordination. Once you get something where you can clearly see the ball and your hand frozen in motion. Then try at 1/640/sec, 1/100/sec, 1/30/sec, 1/15/sec

Under Edit>Info, you can find the shutter speed and ISO at which you shot the photos.

Post your 5 photos in order of increasing shutter speed from shortest to longest with the settings for each photo in the caption.

Include a short response describing how changing the shutter speed and the corresponding change of ISO effects the photo.

Posts without text will not receive credit.

Category: Lab: Week 6 – Exploring Shutter Speed

Inspiration

Look at the product work of Greg Shapps.

And then…

Taking a group of similar objects, arrange them in a pattern. Stick to something small like pennies or M&Ms. Select a background that will set off your objects. Arrange the objects in a pattern that will fill the frame. Then using the rule of thirds, break the pattern. On one of the four intersections of the rule of thirds, change or remove an item. Take the final photo from an overhead view.

Put the photo in a post with a short description of your decision making process: how you picked the objects and background and how you decdied to disrupt the pattern.

Category: Lab: Week 3 – Breaking the Pattern

Negative space is the background of your photo. It is everything that surrounds the main subject of your photograph.

Review the examples from today’s class topics page to see some of the ways to use negative space.

Find an object to work with. Clean off a space so that the only things seen in the photos are the object and the background. Take a minimum of 10 photos where the negative space is more important than the subject itself. Of these, take a minimum of 5 close up photos of the object so that it fills the frame and divides the background into shapes. Then take a minimum of 5 photos where there is much more background than subject. Experiment with the placement of the subject in the frame. Try all fours sides and corners. By moving your subject around in the frame and varying how much or how little background there is, you can change the mood of your photo as well as the composition.

Select your best from each group and post to OpenLab. Include a few thoughts on how negative space works in the two photos. What helped you create a more dynamic composition?

Category: Students posts>Lab: Week 3 – Negative space

Add a comment to this post introducing yourself to the class. You could include your academic interests, why you chose your major, what you hope to do when you graduate, how photography may play a role in that , your experience with photography, and anything else that you want to share such as the languages that you speak or instruments that you play (include your pronouns, if you wish).

Please add your introduction before Wednesday 12 midnight.

It should be between 250-300 words.

Before next class, read the comments and get to know your classmates! 

For extra credit, reply to one of your classmates’ comments (in a full comment of at least 150 words.) Do you have something in common? Did you learn something? Be kind.

Inspiration

Photographing only hands, create 5 interesting and varied photos.

Share them with your partner. They will share their 5 hand photos with you.

Select your single favorite of THEIR photos. Create a photo that copies the best feature of this photo.

Create a new post on OpenLab. Use the gallery block to put your partner’s photo on the left and your photo on the right for a side-by-side comparison. Please make sure to credit your partner’s photo. Include a short paragraph that describes the best feature of your partner’s photo and what you did to copy it.

Category: Lab: Week 1 – Hands