TURN IN Outdoor shutter speed contact sheets by the end of the period today.

When you are finished, visit this site and pick a tutorial. These tutorials use pixlr.com, which is almost like a free photoshop online. This is VERY good to know, since a lot of people cannot afford Photoshop.
http://pixlrtutorial.blogspot.com/p/tutorials-navigation.html

You can always turn in your tutorials for extra credit.

Glow sticks and lights on Monday!!!

Run your outdoor shutter speed photos into a 3 row, 4 column contact sheet.

Label the speeds on your contact sheet using the text tool.

In the blank spot, answer a few questions:

-Was your prediction about outdoor shutter speeds correct?

-What speeds worked best in outdoor light?

-What speeds were bad for outdoor lighting?

-What happens when you use too long of a shutter speed outdoors, like full seconds?

Turn in Indoor Shutter Speed contact sheets

Good morning!

Turn in your saved .jpg contact sheets for indoor shutter speed in the "Indoor Shutter Speed" folder.
Lastname_Firstname_Indoor.jpg is fine for a file name,

Next, you will be ,making an Outdoor Shutter Speed contact sheet, testing which speeds work best outdoors. Again, your partner should be doing something active. This time, we are outside and we can capture a lot more motion, so you want to be running, jumping, skipping, dancing, kicking, twirling, etc. Please do not do these things in the hallways! Please go out to the track, football field, baseball field, or grass at the front of the school.


Here are your speeds for OUTDOORS
(WRITE THEM DOWN)
1/2000,   1/1000,   1/500
1/200,   1/100,   1/50
1/10,   1/5,   1",   2"

Get into it!

Good morning students!

Today you will finish up your shutter speed contact sheet. Read step by step instructions carefully:

1. Load your pictures on to your computer. As long as you took your photos in order, you do not have to rename them. IF you rename them, you must use the alphabet so they go in order. a.jpg, b.jpg, c.jpg

2. Run a 3 column, 4 row contact sheet

3. Label your shutter speeds on the contact sheet using the text tool. (See yesterday's example)

4. In the open spot on your contact sheet, use the text tool to write a short paragraph discussing the following points:
        -What shutter speeds were too fast for indoor lighting?
        -What speeds were just right for indoor lighting?
        -What speeds do you think (predict) would be best outside for a sunny day?
        -What speed do you think we will have to use in total darkness?

We will turn them in Wednesday.
If you finish early, use your cell phone flash to test out some light painting photos indoors, or try making a ghost image using a longer shutter speed.

We will be creating shutter speed contact sheets to test the effects of various shutter speeds indoors. This is a great example of our tests from last year:

HINTS:

Remember a FRACTION of a second does not have the 1/1000 on your camera- it will just show up as 1000.

Remember FULL seconds are shown with a quotation, like 2"

ALWAYS use a tripod or set your camera on a table/counter when using longer shutter speeds.

You can "browse in bridge" to see which shutter speeds were which, if you forget.

As long as you take your pictures in order, there is no need to rename them, but if you DO rename them, you must name them a, b, c, d, e, etc. The computer doesn't understand our fractions.

Quiz day!

Good morning,
It is the ISO/Aperture quiz day.
-Take the first 5 minutes or so to study.
-We will take the quiz
-Staple your study guide/practice test to the BACK of your quiz and pass down the row
-Correct quizzes
-Finish your shutter speed collage from yesterday and TURN-IN TO THE FOLDER
-I will enter your quiz points today so you know what you got

Shutter Speed!

Grab a sheet of paper and number it 1-10

We will watch a powerpoint on Shutter speeds and answer a few questions. Then we will create a collage depicting both fast and slow shutter speeds.

When you finish with the aperture project, you get to play a fun game called.... TEST YOURSELF!

First, see how many of these you know without talking to your partner or looking at old notes. Then I'll give you the key to check yourself. That way, you will know what you should study before friday. You will turn this in, but I give you 10 points for participating, no matter what score you got on your own.

1.                   What letter on the camera dial is ISO?

2.                   What does ISO change in the camera?

3.                   What letter on the camera dial is Aperture?

4.                   How does aperture control light?

5.                   When the f number is higher, I have _____________ stuff in focus (more/less)

6.                   When the f number is lower, I have _____________ stuff in focus.

7.                   If I want a blurry background, what is an example of an f-stop I should use?

8.                   Aperture controls what 2 things:

9.                   The aperture is on what part of the camera?

10.               What is Depth of Field?

11.               A lower ISO number means what 2 things-?

12.               A higher ISO number means what 2 things-?

13.               What is the part inside your camera that controls the sensitivity to light?

14.               What is the drawback to increasing the sensitivity to light?

15.               What is a typical "base" level ISO?

16.               What does underexposed mean?

17.               What does overexposed mean?

18.               What camera setting controls how LONG light enters the camera?

19.               What camera setting controls how MUCH light enters the camera?

20.               What camera setting controls how SENSITIVE the camera is to light?

Turn-In!

Make sure you have turned in 2 aperture contact sheets: One with the toys, and one with the tiny item in a book. They should be cropped and labeled to look like the examples below:

When you are finished you may do any of the following for extra credit:

-make a zoom blur photo (PDF instructions are on the M:/
-create extra still lifes shot with P mode, at ISO 64.
-create tiny still lifes shot in A mode on Macro setting.

Objectives: We will attempt to see the effects of Aperture on depth of field by photographing several small toys in Macro mode. We will explain the 2 things Aperture is responsible for in your camera.

If you look into the distance and focus on small details, you should see that your lower F stop (3.1) has a slightly more blurry background than your 8.0 F stop.

Remember that  your FIRST item in  the front must be in focus. If it isn't- or if the focus changes from picture to picture- you must re-shoot.

Today we will be doing one more Aperture related shoot using a book and a coin (or any other super small item). This makes a total of 2 aperture shots you are expected to take:

Thursday 1-14-2016

Today we will:

Finish the Aperture worksheet from yesterday. (Turn in by the end of the period tomorrow)
Begin taking Aperture pictures of miniature items.

I'm back

This morning we will:

Check to see if our ISO projects are turned in.
Correct our ISO worksheets from yesterday and turn in.
Begin learning about APERTURE.

Good morning guys and ladies!

You will browse the following website and answer a few questions about ISO in WORD.
https://photographylife.com/what-is-iso-in-photography

Please use complete sentences.
1. What is ISO, basically?
2. A lower ISO number means-?
3. A higher ISO number means-?
4. What is the part inside your camera that controls the sensitivity to light?
5. What is the drawback to increasing the sensitivity to light?
6. What is a typical "base" level ISO?
7. When is it impossible to use the base level ISO?
8. What is a typical ISO sequence (what different numbers do you have on your camera?)
9. Each step between the numbers _______________ the sensitivity of the sensor.
10. What is the relation between ISO sensitivity and time needed to take a photo (shutter speed)?
11. Can you explain in basic terms how the guy got the ghost effect in his photograph?
12. If you use Auto ISO, what can you do to limit the amount of grain in the photo?
13: REVIEW: What camera setting controls how LONG light enters the camera?
14. REVIEW: What camera setting controls how MUCH light enters the camera?
15. REVIEW: What camera setting controls how SENSITIVE the camera is to light?

When finished, save your worksheet and prepare to turn it in tomorrow at the beginning of class. If you are finished early, you may take additional still life photos for extra credit. (If taking extra credit photos- Think about what ISO you should use for best quality!)

Good morning everyone,
You are continuing the I SO project from last week. Please see the previous posts for details. Please be careful with my heart lamp and other breakables- these are often my weird things from home!  If you finish your still life And contact sheet, make sure you get them in the turn in folder and find the extra credit challenge called zoom blur in the photo 2 section of the Miss E folder.

ISO

Crop your still life if you need to. Submit it to the turn-in folder.

Next, you will crop all 8 of your images to one tiny piece. Use the same little piece of each image. Name your crops:
crop1_iso64.jpg,
crop2_iso100.jpg,
crop3_iso200.jpg,
crop4_iso400.jpg,
crop5_iso800.jpg,
crop6_iso1600.jpg,
crop7_iso3200.jpg,
crop8_iso6400.jpg

Run your contact sheet at 2 Columns, 4 Rows
You can name your contact sheet LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_ISO.jpg
Here is the finished, correctly named example of the contact sheet:

1. Set up your still life. Consider the hints we learned in class to make your set up eye catching and pleasing. (Have items in the foreground, middleground and background. Vary the size and height of your items. Pick a nice color scheme or theme.)

2. Set your camera to P mode. Change ISO by clicking Menu, Select ISO, and then the right arrow button.

3. Photograph your still life at all 8 ISO settings. Do NOT move the camera. Our goal is to have the exact same picture at each ISO setting. YOU WILL HAVE 8 PHOTOS of your still life.

4. Come back to your seat and upload your photos. Crop your still life if necessary, and upload the ISO 64 photo it to the turn in folder.

Good morning!

Today we have a busy schedule:

1. Cleaning out student storage (but don't start until I talk to you!)
2. Little pop quiz with partner (don't worry, you can talk)
3. Begin learning ISO and creating still life

Welcome Back, Photo I!!!

First, make sure you check your missing assignments and TALK TO ME about anything you know is in the folder which I have listed as missing. Check your Final project score. Today is the LAST DAY to fix these problems, so take responsibility now.

Second, we are starting Quarter 3! All files will now be saved in your Semester 2>Quarter 3 folder.
Quarter 3 is more technical than previous quarters. We will be learning all the modes on your camera dial and what they do.

You will need a piece of paper today, as we will be drawing a diagram.

Objectives:

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:1. Language objective: Explain to your camera partner why not to shoot in auto mode.
2. Content objective: Construct a diagram of the Exposure Triangle.