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Assignment #4
Present 4 photos that capture the essence of timing.
Examples : movement important to your scene, an expression, an action.
Take all 3 variables (f-stop,shutter speed, ISO), nail them perfectly and throw in a little timing. Easy right?
By my estimation getting the right point of focus then recomposing your shot and at the same time capturing your subject at the peak or most important time will be your hurdles.
Weekly Assignment #3
Objective: Landscapes
Submit 4-5 landscape photographs
You might use wider focal lengths and high number apertures like f10 or f22, this is typical of a setting but don't let it hold you back.
Look for dynamic lighting and unique compositions.
Land scape basics: foreground/middle/and background elements are desired. Dramatic lighting and cast shadows to create depth.
I don't know if you have a tripod, but on some shots and situations you might need to use one, if you are doing this right you will be using the AV option and not caring about your shutter speed. The speeds could go into the 1 second or even 3 second range. At the same time, non of the samples to the left were shot using a tripod, I had plenty of light.
Good luck!
Weekly assignment #2
This week I want you to shoot using a center composition.
Objective: shoot anything, use all the tools you have learned to finish the assignment.
Def: A center composition is a composition where the main subject matter is in the dead center of the shot.
Present 4 of your best shots.
Weekly Assignment or even sooner #1
This week I want you to shoot books, thats right books.
Objective: getting close, using depth of field to create perspective, making something boring into something interesting, using different angles and compositions.
experiment with different lighting, Pof and DoF.
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5 comments:
K,
Composition: Most of the shots have good composition and few don't, im sure you know what ones don't quite feel right. (the last shot) (baby only shots) and (medium of father and baby) are to centered. Remember what we talked about with negative space.
Depth of field: some of the photos are fine in terms of DoF but some don't have enough and some have to much. (The single baby shots need more). (The first shot that has the 3 of them in it has to much as well as the last 2 shots). Doing a few DoF tests will help you remember how much at what distance.
Lighting: One very good thing you did here was you used natural light in doors. As you know im a huge fan of the practice. Where I see a problem however is in your use of it. You should always treat your main light as a key light when you can. Obviously direct sunlight is an exception, but in this case the subjects should be lit by that light. The reason I say this is if you don't put this strong light at your back you are going to get a bunch of over exposed backgrounds. So in these shots where you can see the window in the back ground its almost always going to be blown out. All in all though I wasnt there and it might have been hard for you to do what im asking.
Ideally though if you use the blaring main light thats coming from the windows you should be able to get a good even exposure of the terrain out side because its being lit by the same bright light, all of this while the sun is at your back (6 o'clock)
Post processing: This is one of the harder things to do right. Everyone seems to be able to throw on filters and add this and that but can they do it and make it look natural, most can't. In you case id say less is more. If you send me a raw file that is untouched I can show you what should be done, no more no less. Like I said though this can be tricky. Its hard for me to identify exactly what you have done to it. Id say as a general rule, don't use the sharpen tool past 4 and try to get away with 3. Anyways, this is something we have never touched on and I don't wanna get to into now. Your goal with your photos should be 1. take out blemishes
2. a basic level to make sure its evenly exposed
3. color and white balancing.
And thats it.
Thanks Tutor!! I told you it was a poop shoot. I should probably not practice on family pics (not their fault they have a below average phptographer) because the sharpen tool was the only thing that salvaged any pictures. Most of the pics were soft and blurry due to my 1.4 (most of the time) ap. Either I didn't use the light properly (which is probably the case) or it wasn't as light as I thought.
Would I have been better off doing a tripod, or trying to use the flash and under exposing? (I will post some untouched so you can see for yourself how blurry they are)
Thanks again for doing this...I love it!
Any suggestions on what I could practice on...or want to throw out an assignment for me to do?
No a tripod or flash inst the answer, it's a last resort. Given what I see, you didn't need a flash, it looks as if you had plenty of light, its the misuse of your main light source that prevented you from utilizing f-stop adjustments.
We need to figure out how to get me the meta data, its kind of "ALL telling" if you know what i mean. I will work on that.
I was able to get the meta data,
O M Gosh, 1/250th? lol you had tones of light TONS...!!!
So im able to pull the meta data out of these jpegs that you posted. So that will be great for future analysis.
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