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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Weekend Assignment
First 20 Shots Bracketing Assignment
Shoot using ISO 400
Choose situations where the lighting will stay virtually the same while you shoot. You will be photographing each given situation without moving the position or orientation of the camera.
Bracketing
Photograph your subject in direct sunlight. Note the frame, the meter reading (indicated f/stop and shutter speed for the ‘correct’ exposure), the actual exposure (the f/stop and shutter speed that you actually used), and your understanding of the affect of your actual exposure (i.e. is it overexposed one stop, underexposed one stop)
Take an exposure based on your in camera light meter reading. From the same place take two more frames underexposing your film a stop in each frame then take two more pictures overexposing your film a stop in each frame. Do this by adjusting your shutter speed.
Photograph in the shade and repeat the same process. This time adjust the under and over exposure using the lens aperture (f-stop).
At the end of this process, you will have shot ten frames.
Equivalent Exposure
Place your subject in a moderate lighting situation. Take a meter reading for the correct exposure with your aperture at f4 and record the shutter speed. Shoot a frame at this exposure. Proceed to make four additional exposures, each time changing the aperture (f-stop) by closing it down and adjusting the shutter speed accordingly to get the correct exposure each time. You should end up with five different frames of the same subject that are at the same exposure, all using five different combinations of f-stops and shutter speeds. Your f-stops should be f4, f5.6, f8, and f11, and your equivalent shutter speeds should be getting slower and slower.
Repeat this process in another setting.
At the end of this process, you will have shot ten more frames (20 frames total).
*NOTE: Some of your cameras have aperture settings that fall in between complete stops—familiarize yourself with the standard f-stops so that you know which apertures constitute a full stop. The equivalent exposure dial in the following pages should help with this.
Shoot using ISO 400
Choose situations where the lighting will stay virtually the same while you shoot. You will be photographing each given situation without moving the position or orientation of the camera.
Bracketing
Photograph your subject in direct sunlight. Note the frame, the meter reading (indicated f/stop and shutter speed for the ‘correct’ exposure), the actual exposure (the f/stop and shutter speed that you actually used), and your understanding of the affect of your actual exposure (i.e. is it overexposed one stop, underexposed one stop)
Take an exposure based on your in camera light meter reading. From the same place take two more frames underexposing your film a stop in each frame then take two more pictures overexposing your film a stop in each frame. Do this by adjusting your shutter speed.
Photograph in the shade and repeat the same process. This time adjust the under and over exposure using the lens aperture (f-stop).
At the end of this process, you will have shot ten frames.
Equivalent Exposure
Place your subject in a moderate lighting situation. Take a meter reading for the correct exposure with your aperture at f4 and record the shutter speed. Shoot a frame at this exposure. Proceed to make four additional exposures, each time changing the aperture (f-stop) by closing it down and adjusting the shutter speed accordingly to get the correct exposure each time. You should end up with five different frames of the same subject that are at the same exposure, all using five different combinations of f-stops and shutter speeds. Your f-stops should be f4, f5.6, f8, and f11, and your equivalent shutter speeds should be getting slower and slower.
Repeat this process in another setting.
At the end of this process, you will have shot ten more frames (20 frames total).
*NOTE: Some of your cameras have aperture settings that fall in between complete stops—familiarize yourself with the standard f-stops so that you know which apertures constitute a full stop. The equivalent exposure dial in the following pages should help with this.
Schedule Update
Thursday, June 26
Chuck Close
Filters
Shoot Portrait
Ch. 7: Light (Metering - 271-290) (Exposure compensation – 290-307, 314-319)
Ch. 9 (RAW - 391-398)
Ch. 10: (Color Settings - 414-423)
Exposure Assignment
Bring Camera
Bring in Photo to Retouch For Tuesday
Ch. 6 (White Balance and Color Temperature - 210-218)
Ch. 7 (White Balance – 307-313)
Monday, June 30
Histograms
Contact Sheets
Revisit camera functions
Bring your questions
Depth of field
Color Temp
Color Correction
Demo with lights and Grey card
Bring in Old Photo
Tuesday, July 1
Quiz review
Scanning old photo
Open lab: Retouch
Reading:
Ch. 10: Image Enhancement (Color Correction– 473-493)
Wed July 2
Quiz Digital
Time to Scan
Making a B & W print
PhotoShop Demos:
Layers, Cloning, Clean-up, and Sharpening
Masks & Feathering
Reading:
Ch. 10: (Basic Image Clean-up – .493-512)
Ch. 11: Expert techniques (Sharpening - 513-519)
Thursday July 3
Open lab: Retouch
Reading :To Be Handed Out
Respond on Blog –
What are the advantages and disadvantages of digital photography?
Chuck Close
Filters
Shoot Portrait
Ch. 7: Light (Metering - 271-290) (Exposure compensation – 290-307, 314-319)
Ch. 9 (RAW - 391-398)
Ch. 10: (Color Settings - 414-423)
Exposure Assignment
Bring Camera
Bring in Photo to Retouch For Tuesday
Ch. 6 (White Balance and Color Temperature - 210-218)
Ch. 7 (White Balance – 307-313)
Monday, June 30
Histograms
Contact Sheets
Revisit camera functions
Bring your questions
Depth of field
Color Temp
Color Correction
Demo with lights and Grey card
Bring in Old Photo
Tuesday, July 1
Quiz review
Scanning old photo
Open lab: Retouch
Reading:
Ch. 10: Image Enhancement (Color Correction– 473-493)
Wed July 2
Quiz Digital
Time to Scan
Making a B & W print
PhotoShop Demos:
Layers, Cloning, Clean-up, and Sharpening
Masks & Feathering
Reading:
Ch. 10: (Basic Image Clean-up – .493-512)
Ch. 11: Expert techniques (Sharpening - 513-519)
Thursday July 3
Open lab: Retouch
Reading :To Be Handed Out
Respond on Blog –
What are the advantages and disadvantages of digital photography?
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
For Thursday
Shoot one portrait you may take many shots then choose the best one.
Shoot in Raw
Use Manual functions on your camera. You may want to try bracketing to make sure you get a good exposure.
Look at the artist Chuck Close for inspiration
http://www.paceprints.com/artistportfolio/artistportfolio.asp?aID=18
http://visualarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=2036&title=Articles
In class you will be applying filters to the image to transform the photo into a chuck close like image.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Actions/Batch Hints
Actions
Actions help you quickly complete repetitive tasks
In this case we are sizing images
Open your file in Photoshop
Click window
And then Actions
Actions are essentially recordings that you will play back using Batch processing
You create a new action
Start recording
Every tool you use will now be recorded
Resize your image and save into a new folder
This will avoid you copying over your original file, which you may need to go back to.
Once you have saved the file and closed it make sure to Stop Recording.
Batch Process
Open up desired folder in bridge (this can also be done from Photoshop).
Go to Tools
Photoshop
Batch….
Choose action
Choose source folder (images you want to resize)
Choose destination folder (folder for newly sized images)
Actions help you quickly complete repetitive tasks
In this case we are sizing images
Open your file in Photoshop
Click window
And then Actions
Actions are essentially recordings that you will play back using Batch processing
You create a new action
Start recording
Every tool you use will now be recorded
Resize your image and save into a new folder
This will avoid you copying over your original file, which you may need to go back to.
Once you have saved the file and closed it make sure to Stop Recording.
Batch Process
Open up desired folder in bridge (this can also be done from Photoshop).
Go to Tools
Photoshop
Batch….
Choose action
Choose source folder (images you want to resize)
Choose destination folder (folder for newly sized images)
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Weekend Assignment
Hockney Interior/Exterior/Portrait
Take multiple pictures of a few different scenes using the visual language that David Hockney is famous for. Take one interior set of images, one landscape and a portrait. Use the fact that digital imagery easy and cheap to produce and take as many pictures as you want. We will spend the next two classes opening, sizing, and setting up the collage in Photoshop and prepping it to print.
Shooting Done : Monday June 23
Collage Done : Wednesday, June 25
Monday, June 16, 2008
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