ISO

ISO 200

ISO 3200

1. What are the advantages of shoot at a higher ISO at a sporting event like basketball or a night football game?
 

 You can get more light in the photo

2. What suggestions did the author make about using a low ISO?
 

 Use a low ISO whenever you have plenty of light.

3. What suggestions did the author make about using a high ISO?
 

 Use a high ISO when in low-light situations and when you want to freeze motion.

4. At the camera near you, please tell me what ISO's are available on your camera?

100, 200, 400, 800, 1600.

Shutter Speed

High shutter speed.

Low shutter speed.

At the beginning while the sun is still partially up and the courtyard has reasonable light
a.) the dunking booth - 1/1600th
b.) the food eating contest - 1/500th
c.) the rock climbing wall - 1/250th
d.) someone working at a booth - 1/500th
e.) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle - 1/500th
f.) the Diamonds performance - 1/1200th

Towards the end when there is no sun and has gotten dark enough that you can't see from one end of the courtyard to the other.
a.) the dunking booth - 1/500th
b.) the food eating contest - 1/250th
c.) the rock climbing wall - 1/2
d.) someone working at a booth - 1/2
e.) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle - 1/250th
f.) the Diamonds performance. - 1/500th

2. List the three settings your camera has regarding setting shutter speed (these are found at #5 on the Shutter Speed website. Explain how each works - DO NOT COPY AND PASTE, use your own words.

• Auto Mode - shutter speed and aperture are selected by the camera.
• Aperture Priority Mode - you choose lens aperture, while the camera sets the shutter speed.
• Manual - you set both aperture and shutter speed.

3. With the camera near you, what are the shutter speeds available to you on that camera? You will have to turn the camera on to determine this - hopefully you can figure out what setting to put the camera on to determine the answer to this question.

          30 seconds to 1/4000th

Aperture

f/2.8

f/16

1. The aperture is closely related to the pupil.

2. A smaller f-stop means a larger aperture, while a larger f-stop means a smaller aperture.

3. A smaller aperture brings all objects into focuse, while a larger aperture will isolate the foreground object from the background.

4. f/3.5 - 5.6

Africa

         I think the powerpoint was pretty cool. I think if the pictures were in color, they wouldn't seem as special. I liked how the photographer framed his photos and how he captured some of the animals.

         In my favorite photo, hundreds of zebras were crossing a river. A few were actually in the river, in a line. Hundreds more were crowded together on land. In the background there is a small cliff and a large tree.

3. Nick Brandt -

a.     He uses a Pentax 67II with two fixed lenses.

b.     He wants to "record a visually poetic last testament to the wild animals and places there before they are gone at the hands of man."

c.     He wants to convey his feeling for the lands of East Africa through his photography.

d.     "To me, every creature, human or nonhuman, has an equal right to live, and this feeling, this belief that every animal and I are equal, affects me every time I frame an animal in my camera."

Academics Shoot Reflection

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos following the rules I set out for you?

All the kids would turn their heads and stare at the camera. It felt pretty awkward and it made it taking a good photograph difficult.
 

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 forgot about the rules until halfway through shooting. After that I just did my best to take a photo for each rule.
 

3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photography?

I would focus more on the rules.
 

4. What things would you do the same?

Nothing, really. I don't think I did a good job.

5. When you go out with your next set of prompts, which rule do you think will be the easiest to achieve?

Rule of thirds.
 

6. Which rule do you think will be the hardest to capture?

Framing or Lines.
 

7. What rule are you still not totally clear on and what can you do to figure out what that rule is?

Balance. I suppose I could read some stuff.

Academics Shoot - Lines

          I don't know if I followed this rule correctly, but there are lines in it. The subject is obviously the flag. Anybody could easily tell.

Academics Shoot - Balance

          I think I followed this rule well. The spaces between the computers make squares and rectangles, and the 2 pairs of students are balanced. The subject would be the students. I think it might be hard for people to tell with all the computers.

Academics Shoot - Rule of Thirds

          I think I followed this rule adequately. The subject is the student with the laptop. I think people could tell what the subject is even though the couch is in the way.

Academics Shoot - Simplicity

           I think I followed this rule well, except that it's blurry. The subject would obviously be the pail of pens. One could easily recognize the subject in this photo because it's the only thing that stands out.

Academics Shoot - Framing

          This seems to me like a good example for framing, even though the frame isn't that great. The subject would be the kid with the drum. I don't think it's easy to distinguish the subject because there are other kids standing around. If I could do it again, I would pick a clearer subject and frame it more evenly.

Academics Shoot - Avoiding Mergers

          I guess I followed the rule pretty well. The subjects are the students and teacher. I'm sure people looking at this photo could what the subject is. It wouldn't be the desk or anything.

Academics Shoot preview

  

The Story

       In this picture, students are pulling up weeds to start a garden for an environmental science class. Even though it's hot and humid out, the students work hard and get things done.

Action and Emotion

      The girls are doing a science experiment. They look amused and surprised at the bubbles floating around the room.

Filling the Frame

      In this picture you see volunteers handing out hot dogs to homeless people on a chilly day. The frame is filled with many different colors from the food, clothing, bags, and the background. It is mostly taken up by the people.

First Day Photos

I like this one because it's a good example of Rule of Thirds.

I don't like this one because it's blurry.

Post-shoot reflection

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos of your first 3 prompts (Red, Metal, Grumpy?

It was kind of hot outside.

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 paid attention to focus and framing. I put the camera on manual focus and manually focused.

3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photograhy?

I would pay more attention to balance and rule of thirds, since I didn't really do that.

4. What things would you do the same?

Take a shitload of pictures.

5. 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?

I did good with lines, simplicity, and avoiding mergers.

6. Are you interested in shooting those prompts again, why?

No. At least not at Akins because there's not much to shoot.

Balance

 The vehicles in the photo create squares and rectangles, and the

firefighters between them create a good sense of arrangement

as well as the smoke in the background.

Rule of Thirds

 In this photo, the subject is not in the center of the frame,

it is down left of center. This makes the photo seem

more dynamic.

Avoiding Mergers

 This photo is a good exampe for avoiding mergers because

it cuts part of the worker out, creating a border merger.

Lines

 In this photo there are several different sets of lines, some of which

overlap each other creating a sense of depth and dynamics.

Simplicity

 This is a good example of simplicity because it has a plain

background and focuses on the painted design.

Framing

In this photo, the trees and buildings in the foreground

create a good frame for the WTC.

Red, Metal, Grumpy

Red

Grumpy

Metal

Great Black and White Photographers, Part 2

Josef Koudelka

      Josef Koudelka was born in 1938 in Boskovice, Moravia, a region of Czechoslovakia. While growing up, he photographed his family and surroundings with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera (Bakelite is one of the earliest plastics made from synthetic components). In 1961, he earned a degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague. Later that year he staged his first photographic exhibition.
      Koudelka returned from photographing gypsies in Romania just two days before the Soviet invasion, in 1968. He photographed the military forces of the Warsaw Pact as they invaded Prague and destroyed the Czech reforms. His negatives were smuggled out of Prague into the hands of the Magnum agency, who published them anonymously in The Sunday Times magazine. The photos became dramatic international symbols and the "anonymous photographer was awarded the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal for photographs requiring exceptional courage.
      In 1970 he applied for a three-month working visa and fled to England. He applied for political asylum, and in 1971, joined Magnum photos and stayed for more than a decade. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Koudelka sustained his work and continued to exhibit and publish major projects like his first book, Gypsies, and Exiles, his second.

Bastrop Fire.

      

      This picture is pretty cool. I think it would be creepy to be that close to the fire. The sky looks like it does before a tornado forms. I bet that shit's pretty hot.

The Camera

Aperture: a hole or an opening through which light travels.

Shutter: a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time, for the purpose of exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light to capture a permanent image of a scene.

Exposure: controls the amount of light that enters the camera during a period of time.

Depth of field: the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.

F-stop:  the focal length divided by the "effective" aperture diameter.

Focal length: a measure of how strongly the system converges (focuses) or diverges (defocuses) light.

Lens: captures the light from the subject and brings it to a focus on the film or detector.

Focus: only objects within a limited range of distances from the camera will be reproduced clearly. The process of adjusting this range is known as changing the camera's focus.

 Flash: a device used to produce a flash of artificial light.

Camera: a device that records and stores images.