Category: Lab Exercises (Page 4 of 7)

The class will have a quiz next week on October 20th.

It will cover the topics discussed to date: the frame and composition, perspective, depth of field, freezing and blurring motion, lighting direction.

Working with your group, write three questions for a quiz covering the topic assigned to your group.

Each question needs to have a part where students demonstrate understanding. Since this will be essentially open book, no question can simply allow for the test taker to cut and paste an answer.

Write one question in each of these three formats:

Define a term and then use it in a sentence.

Compare and contrast two photos (select from any used on any of the class topics pages or taken by students this semester) to discuss XYZ.

Define a term and take a photo that demonstrates that term.

Put your questions in a post with an answer key. Make sure to include the names of everyone in your group.

Category: Lab: Week 6 – Quiz Review

Select a photo from the four selected by your group from your midterm project that you think will benefit most from adjustment in Lightroom.

Using the Lightroom Workflow detailed on today’s class topics page, adjust your photo.

Make a post and include the before and after versions with a screen shot of the Lightroom settings you used.

Category: Lab: Week 6 – Global Corrections

Continuing to work with the same stuffed animal, create two photographs-one that illustrates the idea of a happy childhood and a second that illustrates the idea of a difficult childhood. Convey most of the difference in emotion between the two photos with the lighting. You may also add a background and props. Consider the angle of view and framing as well.

Post your two final photos in a gallery block on OpenLab with a description of your process. How did you light the scene? What background did you add? If you used props, why did you select them.

No stereotypes. Keep it fresh.

Please post by 8:45.

You will be asked to comment on one classmates work. Please include the greatest strength of their work and one thing you think could be improved.

Category: Lab: Week 5 – Childhood

Find a small stuffed animal to work with. Clean off a surface so that the only thing in the photo is the stuffed animal. Put down a piece of white poster board or if you don’t have a piece of poster board, look for something white such as a sheet or towel. A white background reflects light. Keep it simple.

Put your camera or camera phone on a tripod. That will leave your hands free to move the light around. Use the camera or cameraphone’s timer.

Use one light. Turn off the other lights. Holding the light more or less just out of the frame, move it around to get different effects. Keep the light as close to the subject as possible. Pay attention to the edge of the light. Where you place the edge of the light will allow you to control the tone of the background and what parts of your stuffed animal will stand out.

Try:

• Front light
• Side light
• Top Light
• Under lighting
• Silhouette – point the light at a white background and leave some space between the subject and the background.

Post your results in a gallery with a description of your process.

Category: Lab: Week 5 – Lighting Direction