Explaining the camera start guide
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Class Task: Create a guide about everything in this PowerPoint! The idea is for a photography beginner to read your Weebly and know exactly how to use the camera “modes” and why they would! • Create a title in your Foundation page - “ My guide to camera control”. Add a labelled diagram of a DSLR (Nikon or Canon) that you find helpful and explain how it is similar to a human eye – pictures always help demonstrate your writing. • Have 3 sub-titles: “Aperture” and “Shutter Speed” and “Depth of Field”. For each of these sections, give a DETAILED explanation of what each means, along with at least 5 images found from the internet to show what you mean. You will be marked on how thoroughly you have written about each section and whether you can use this guide to help you take your own images next lesson! • To start off strong – find examples of other artist/photographer’s work that have investigated each setting in similar or different ways. “art2day.com” is a great website to find artist work – go to “photography” and choose one of the sections to look through
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Class Task:Create a guide about everything in this PowerPoint! The idea is for a photography beginner to read your Weebly and know exactly how to use the camera “modes” and why they would!
• Create a title in your Foundation page - “My guide to camera control”. Add a labelled diagram of a DSLR (Nikon or Canon) that you find helpful and explain how it is similar to a human eye – pictures always help demonstrate your writing.
• Have 3 sub-titles: “Aperture” and “Shutter Speed” and “Depth of Field”. For each of these sections, give a DETAILED explanation of what each means, along with at least 5 images found from the internet to show what you mean. You will be marked on how thoroughly you have written about each section and whether you can use this guide to help you take your own images next lesson!
• To start off strong – find examples of other artist/photographer’s work that have investigated each setting in similar or different ways. “art2day.com” is a great website to find artist work – go to “photography” and choose one of the sections to look through
Some examples of this task from previous students ….
Very descriptive and informative, using the correct terms and symbols. More images could be used to give examples of what she discusses!
Knowing your “Mode” dial
Nikon mode dial
Canon mode dial
What is exposure and why is it so
important?
“Exposure” is the amount of light that reaches your camera’s sensor.It determines how bright your photograph is. You are EXPOSING your film or camera sensor to light.
Too much light = lack of information/too white.
Too little light = too dark
Under-exposed or a deliberate
lighting technique?
Your chosen exposure can completely change the way your photograph is read by your viewers.
Aperture The hole which lets light in when you release the shutter
Your images will get darker as let light is let in
Your images will get lighter as more light is let in
Your APERTURE also controls your “Depth Of Field” – this is the distance of your photograph which is in focus.
Get creative with your DOF – what are you drawing focus to?
Shutter SpeedYou can control how quickly or slowly your shutter opens to let light into your camera. This is key for freezing moments and avoiding blur, unless that is what you want!
Shutter speed is measured in seconds / fractions of seconds:1/640 is 640th of a second2” is 2 seconds
You are not only controlling the time light has to enter your camera (the longer – the more light gets in – the more the exposure), you are also control how you want to record movement! One of the images has a quick shutter speed; one has a slow – which way round are they?
Use your shutter speed to create new features and textures
