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What you will need for this Class |
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(D)SLR (or digital point and shoot which is slr like)
camera with manual setting for aperture and shutter control. |
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Required materials |
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a. Notebook - Small pocket size – EXIF information required with photo posts.
b. Pen
c. Tripod - Not necessary but a help |
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Course Syllabus |
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a. Intro. A brief introduction to photography.
Getting Started
b. The Camera.
Camera and Lens
Shutter and Aperture control
c. Steps to better pictures.
Composition – You are in control
d. Light and ISO/ASA settings (FILM)
e. Exposure
f. Assignments |
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Over View |
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Introduction:
You will receive a pdf through your e-mail. This will allow you to save and print it.
As you will receive your weekly PDF lesson and assignment, if you have any questions, you can post those in the class forum for feedback. Then when you finish your assignment you receive a critique from the class instructor.
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Introduction to Photography Lesson:
What is Photography?
Photography is a broad subject that eventually boils down to a mixture of art and science. So now let’s get started, learning the fundamentals and basics of the technical end to then use that to learn and explore the creative end.
Photography is the technique of recording, by chemical or mechanical means, a permanent image on a layer of material sensitive to light exposure.
However, we need the artistic or creative side to have the perfect photograph.
Photography is a way to bring your imagination, your concept, your ideas, your composition of the way you see the world to life on film. We all see the world differently, therefore all of us produce unique and different photographs.
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Lesson 1: Bracketing and Meter readings:
Bracketing will help you get the correct exposure - When we start taking photographs the first thing is set up your composition, then set your exposure. I have gone over those steps, but let’s do it again with a scenario.
The Brooklyn Bridge, New York, NY. Brooklyn side of the bridge on the left side pier. The sun is high and harsh, causing shadows under the bridge.
Assignment 1: Free Assignment: This give an idea to the Instructor where your are at in your photography.
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Lesson 2: Handling LCD viewing:
Watch your reflective surfaces, water, sand, ect. This will throw off your meter reading.
Also watch surfaces that soak up light, black top again this will throw off your meter reading. Make sure you read for the subject to get it exposed right.
Assignment 2: Stop Motion:
This is Action Photography at it’s hardest, because you are going to stop the motion.
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Lesson 3: Cropping on a joint:
When shooting a scene with a lot of content you sometimes have to cut or crop so that the viewer doesn’t feel like you left something out or is wondering where the rest of the picture is, but at the same time ending the frame.
Assignment 3: Blurred Motion:
This is Action Photography at its easiest, because you are allowing the motion to move across the plane of field.
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Lesson 4 & 5: Dealing with Shadows & Highlights:
When you are shooting where you have large black or white objects next to, behind or around your main subject it can throw your meter reading off.
Assignment 4 & 5: Texture and Pattern:
Using Pattern to tell a story and/or draw an eye line (line of sight) into your photograph for or to your subject. Pattern consists of three of the same thing in a row. Irregular Pattern is the same random pattern repeated (tree bark, wood grain, veins in a leaf or flower).
Texture shows realism, tactile reality, use texture to show the subject, brick, stone, tree bark, ect.
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Lesson 6: How to deal with Haze:
At certain times of year, with the weather being hot and on the verge of rain, we get haze in our horizon to counter that you have to slow your shutter down a stop to allow the light to penetrate the haze and hit the sensor. So if your meter reads 1/500, then shoot the scene at 1/350 to compensate for the haze.
Assignment 6: Landscapes:
Landscapes are defined by distance and/or horizon. However, you can have distance with foreground perspective and/or framing.
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Lesson 7: Keeping it level:
When shooting a whole building, include the entire building, don’t cut it off, also don’t lean, find a straight edge, at the bottom or along the closest side to you.
Assignment 7: Architecture:
Man made structures in whole (a complete building) or in part (door, window or ornate decoration).
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Lesson 8: Capturing the moment:
Portraiture: There are two categories of Portraits:
Regular - This is where the subject knows you are taking the photo, and is paying attention to you.
Candid Portrait - This is where the subject knows your are taking the photo, but is not paying attention to you, otherwise engaged in another activity. This is not a “Candid” where the subject has no idea you are photographing them.
Assignment 8: Portraiture:
Go vertical, follow the flow of your subject, not all single portraits will be vertical, but the majority of them will be. |
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