Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO

Aperture!
1. What part of the body should we closely relate aperture?The Eye. (Pupil, Iris, Cornea, and the Retina)

2. Finish this sentence - the smaller the Aperture _the higher the Aperture focus_, the higher the Aperture _the smaller the Aperture focus_.

3. In your own words tell me how aperture impacts Depth of Field?
A bigger F-number will bring the background objects in focus. A smaller F-Number will do the opposite. It will make the background objects blurry and it will make the main object look sharp.

4.With the camera near you - tell me the F stops available on the lens currently attached.
 From 5.6 to 36.

Shutter Speed!
 Slow shutter speed:

Fast Shutter Speed:


1.
1. A) dunking booth- Higher Shutter Speed
2. B) the food eating contest- Slower Shutter Speed
3. C.) the rock climbing wall- Slower Shutter Speed
4. D.) someone working at a booth- Slow Shutter Speed
5. E.) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle- Higher Shutter Speed
6. F.) the Diamonds performance- Higher Shutter Speed

1. A) dunking booth- Higher Shutter Speed
2. B) the food eating contest- Slow Shutter Speed
3. C) the rock climing wall- Slow Shutter Speed
4. D) someone working at a booth- Slow Shutter Speed
5. E) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle- Slower Shutter speed
6. F) the Diamonds performance- Slower Shutter Speed

2. List the three settings your camera has regarding setting shutter speed
"Aperture Priority"-  A setting that allows the us to choose a specific aperture value while the camera chooses a shutter speed to match.
"Shutter Priority"- a setting that allows us to choose a shutter speed while the camera adjusts the aperture.
"Manual"- Where you have to set both shutter speed and aperture manually.

3.

ISO!


ISO 200



ISO 6400

  1. What are the advantages of shoot at a higher ISO at a sporting event like basketball or a night football game?
--By increasing the ISO it allows you to get a freeze motion  of the image.
2. What suggestions did the author make about using a low ISO?
--When there is plenty of light you should use the lowest ISO. Also use the lowest ISO to retain the most detail and to have the highest image quality.
3. What suggestions did the author make about using a high ISO?
--You should always use high ISO when there is not enough light for a camera to quickly capture a motion. You should also use it when you need to get ultra-fast shots.
4. At the camera near you, please tell me what ISO's are available on your camera?
--

SIM CAM
F4 looks best at 1/60
F5.6 looks best at 1/60
F8 looks best at

Africa- Black and White

1. Post your reactions:
I think that he did an amazing job capturing those animals. Everything looked so clear and well thought out. I think it was awesome that he was able to capture each animal standing still and not moving.

2. What was your favorite photo? Describe it and tell me why its your favorite.
My favorite photo was the very first picture on the powerpoint. The elephant is standing at a watering hole and he is drinking water. The picture is very interesting and the angle where he got the elephant at was amazing. The fact that he was not using a zoom lens was awesome.

3. Look up the photographer –

a.     What kind of camera did he use? Pentax 67II

b.     What is his reason for taking the photos? He wanted to do a trilogy of books to memorialize the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa.

c.     What is his hope by taking these types of photos?

d.     Find something he has to say about Africa and post the quote on your blog

Academic Shoot Reflection

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos following the rules I set out for you? I encountered many challanges because many people were distracted by us taking photos and they would try to pose for the camera even after we told them not to. It was also very hard because many people were up moving around and you only had one chance to take the photo and if it didn't come out right you would have to come up with a new idea of something else to shoot.

2. What technical aspects of photography or the assignment in general (focus, framing, holding the camera, etc.) did you find yourself thinking about the most? Provide a specific example of what you did to do this correctly.
I mostly focused on framing the picture correctly during this shoot. Because it was difficult to shoot people moving around constantly I wasn't able to focus on any other technical aspects.

3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photography?
If i could do the assignment again i think i would try shooting at different angles and not be so limited with all of my photos and have more of a variety to choose from.

4. What things would you do the same?
I would keep all of my same ideas for each of the rules.

5. When you go out with your next set of prompts, which rule do you think will be the easiest to achieve?
I believe that the easiest rule to achieve was framing. Classrooms are filled with chalk boards, colorful borders, and papers all over the wall. I thought that framing was going to be the hardest but most of the pictures i took all could of represented framing perfectly.

6. Which rule do you think will be the hardest to capture?
The hardest rule to capture for me was lines, because most of the classrooms that we went into had there desks sort of clumped up together instead of in straight lines.

7. What rule are you still not totally clear on and what can you do to figure out what that rule is?
The only rule that i've had trouble with was balance. In order to figure out what the rule is i could easily go back to the website that is posted on the blog and read it over again.

Balance

How well did you follow the rule?

I believe that i had a hard time capturing this rule because the teacher kept moving so much and i could not get a picture of her standing up straight.

What is the subject?

The subject of this photo is the students sitting in the desk learning while the teacher is helping them with the work.

Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is?I don't believe that the subject is clear because there are multiple distracting things going on in this photo and it is hard to concentrate on one thing.

If you didn't follow the rule well, what could you have done differently?

I believe that i could of not cut of the guy in the right side of the photo and i could of maybe got a little bit closer to show that the teacher is the odd shape in the middle and the people in the desks are basically framing her.

Simplicity

How well did you follow the rule?

I had a little bit of trouble trying to capture this photo because most people had there walls covered with colorful work that would of been distracting in the background. I feel like i could of done a better job at following this rule.

What is the subject?

The subject of this photo is the man looking down at his papers.

Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is?

I believe that the subject is clear because there is not much else going on in the photo besides the man leaning down looking at his papers.

If you didn't follow the rule well, what could you have done differently?

If i could go back and do something differently I would go back and zoom in a little bit closer to the man. I feel like the wires in the background make sort of a V shape that i distracting my eye from the subject.

Framing

How well did you follow the rule?

I also believe that i did really good capturing the rule in this photo. The blackboard is framing the man that is erasing the board.

What is the subject?

The subject in this photo is the man at the blackboard.

Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is?

I believe that people might get confused about what the subject is because you can see the students in the bottom of the picture and it might distract some people from the real subject.

If you didn't follow the rule well, what could you have done differently?
I believe that i did follow the rule well but if i could i would get up closer to the subject that way people don't get confused with what the subject is.

Merger

How well did you follow the rule?I think that i did awesome following this rule because there are actually two mergers in this photo. The girl with the pink backpack and the guy on the right hand side, his body is cut off. This was definetly the easiest photo to take.

What is the subject?

The subject is the students walking in the hallway going to class.

Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is?

Yes, i believe that the subject in this photo is very clear.

Lines

How well did you follow the rule?

I believe that this photo could of been better but i also believe that i did okay with this rule.

 What is the subject?

The subject in this photo are the people sitting in the desks that create the allusion of a straight line.

Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is?

I think that it is pretty clear as to what the subject is. Most of this picture involves the people sitting in the desks facing forward.

If you didn't follow the rule well, what could you have done differently?I could of gotten the picture from the very back middle of the room that way you could see more lines from the desks. I also could of gotten lower and the photo would of been a lot better.

Rule of Thirds

How well did you follow the rule?

I think that i did a good job following the rule with this photo because they are sitting on the lower right hand side of the picture and they are looking around at stuff in the left hand side of the photo.

What is the subject?

The subject of this picture are the two people sitting at the desk waiting for instructions from the teacher.

Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is?

I believe that it is clear to people what the subject is because the eye is automatically drawn to the people and how they are set up in the lower corner.

Academics Shoot Preview

The Story

This picture shows the best story because of the girls expressions on there faces is happy and excited. Also,  the water droplets that are in the air show that something crazy happened. I believe that the story is, that they were doing an experiment and they mixed a chemical in the water causing it to expload and the camera ended up capturing it.

Action and Emotion

 The kids in this photo are helping out the community. It looks like they are trying to feed people that don't have homes and volunteering there time to help the people around them. This shows strong emotions because the people recieving the stuff look so grateful for everything they are providing.

Filling the Frame

 This photo fills the frame up with tons of interesting stuff. Because it is kinda dark it is difficult to see what is going on in the background it makes the photo seem mysterious. The frame is filled at the bottom from the smoke coming from the boys tools. The rest of the photo is filled up by the boys that are working.

Post Shoot Reflection

What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos of your first 3 prompts (Red, Metal, Grumpy?
The challenges that i faced were that i felt very limited to what I could photograph because we were only allowed to go around the school. Grumpy was very difficult to photograph because everyone that we ran into was very happy. We had to ask many people to pose for us and i don't think we got the complete feel of what grumpy looks like from those people.


What technical aspects of photography or the assignment in general (focus, framing, holding the camera, etc.) did you find yourself thinking about the most? Provide a specific example of what you did to do this correctly.
Focus and Holding the Camera, I didn't just want to get a regular photo. I wanted to take a picture that was interesting and effective. I figured out that the more i moved the camera the better my photos came out. I was also thinking about how to focus the camera. It was difficult for me to focus because when i saw different things that i wanted to photograph i had to keep changing it and it took me a while to get the hang of it.


If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photograhy?
If i could do the assignment again I would focus more on simplicity and the rule of thirds. Reading the website over the basic rules of photography was very eye opening and i feel like it is going to help me a lot the next time I go out and shoot. I would focus more on what i was photographing and not just try to get everything done so quickly.

What things would you do the same?
I would focus on the subject the same. I would also still use the same angles.

 Finally - go back and edit your blogs with the 3 photos (red, metal, grumpy), tell me what rules of composition (which you just learned about) did you end up actually achieving? Did you have any?
The only rule that i believe that i acheived was simplicity. Becuase in my "red photo" i zoomed in close to get the eagles red eye and the background was just plain gray. But other than that rule i wasn't able to achieve any of the other ones.
Are you interested in shooting the prompts again?
I am interested in shooting red and metal again but because grumpy was so difficult to photograph i wouldn't want to do that prompt again.

Simplicity

In this photo, the "all flights cancelled" sign is the center of interest. The background is very simple therefore it draws your eye to the sign and it also compliments the sign.

Framing

In this photo, one helicopter is hovering over the building that was destroyed and the other helicopter is on the lawn. Since there is a helicopter on top and bottom it is framing the building that was destroyed. It gives the photo more of a feeling of depth, interest, and dimension.

Meger

In this photo, the van is the center of interest. But both the van and the man are mergers because the mans elbow is cut off and the front of the van is also being cut off.

Balance

In this photo, the shape of the buildings that fell helps the photo compostition. When you first look at this picture your eye is drawn strait to the geometric shape of the building.

Rule of Thirds

In this photo, the men are standing in the lower left corner of the photo. Because of where they're standing it shows that they have a definate path to follow within the picture. This photo is also more effective becuase it shows all of the distruction in the background while the men are still in the lower left corner.

Lines

The strong vertical lines in the photo helps to draw the attention to the smoke in the lower left corner. This photo is very dynamic because of the vertical lines of the building.

Red, Metal, Grumpy

Grumpy

Red

Metal

Great Black and White Photographers Part 2

 Gary Winogrand was born on January 14, 1928 in New York City. He studied painting, photography, and photojournalism at many different places including City College of New York, Colombia University, and The New School for Social Research. In 1952, Winogrand joined the Pix Photographic Agency. At this time he started working for magazines like Collier's, Sport's Illustrated, and Pageant. He felt like he was being extremely limited therefore he set off on a different path, getting grants and traveling around the country to photograph American life. He published many books including The Animals (1969), Women Are Beautiful (1975), Public Relations (1977), Stock Photograph's: The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo (1980), The Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand (1998), and last but not least The Game of Photography (2001). Winogrand died of Cancer on March 19, 1984. He left over 2,500 rolls of undeveloped film, 6,500 rolls of processed film, and 3,000 rolls of contact sheets. Overall he had a total of 432,000 photos that he took but he died before he was ever able to see them.

Warm Up

In this photo you can really tell how much this fire has destroyed. I can only imagine how bad these people feel. I feel bad that they had to go through this and they basically have to start their lives all over again since most of those people lost everything.

The Camera

Parallax:

the difference between the view of an object as seen through the picture-taking lens of a camera and the view as seen through a separate viewfinder.

Pentaprism:

a prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other. a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used especially in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.

Pellicle:

a thin, partially reflective coating, as on a beam splitter or pellicle mirror.

Viewfinder:
a device on a camera showing the field of view of the lens, used in framing and focusing the picture.

inisde view of single lens reflex camera

Apperture:
An opening, usually circular, that limits the quantity of light that can enter an optical instrument.

Shutter: 
A mechanical device for opening and closing the aperture of a camera lens to expose film or the like.


Exposure:
The total density of light allowed to fall on the photographic medium


Depth of Field:
The range of distances along the axis of an optical instrument, usually a camera lens, through which an object will produce a relatively distinct image.

F-Stop:

The setting of an adjustable lens aperture, as indicated by an f number.

 Focal Length:

The distance of a focus from the surface of the a lens or curved mirror. 

Cannon Rebel T3

 

Buttons on the Camera:

Top Buttons!
Mode Dial:
Rotate this dial to switch among Basic Zone, Creative Zone, and Movie
modes.

Sensor Focal Plane:
 The symbol on the top side of the camera, to the left of the viewfinder, senses and marks the focal plane.

 Flash Accessory

Main Dial:
The dial is used to make many shooting settings.

Shutter release button:
Partially press this button to lock in exposure and focus. Press all the way to take the picture.

On/Off switch:
Flip forward to turn the camera on, and back to turn it off again.

Flash Button 

Back Buttons!
Menu button:
Exits the menu displayed on the rear LCD of the T3.

Display button:
When pressed repeatedly, changes the amount of picture information displayed.

Live View/Movie button:
Press this button, marked with a red dot to its left, to activate/deactivate Live View.

Cross keys:
This array of four-directional keys provides left/right/up/down move-
ment to navigate menus, and is used to cycle among options.

SET button:
Located in the center of the cross key cluster, this button is used to
confirm a selection or activate a feature.

Quick Control/Direct print button:
This button activates the Quick Control screen (described later in this chapter), which allows you to set image recording quality and switch between single shot and self-timer/remote setting.

Aperture value (AV)/Exposure compensation button:
When using manual exposure mode, hold down this button and rotate the Main Dial to specify a lens aperture.

Playback button:
Displays the last picture taken.

AE/FE (Autoexposure/Flash exposure)/Thumbnail Index/Zoom Out button:
This button, which has a * label above it, has several functions, which differ
depending on the AF point and metering mode.

AF point selection/Zoom In button:
In shooting mode, this button activates autofocus point selection. In playback mode,
if you’re viewing a single image, this button zooms in on the image that’s displayed.