Complete the Aperture assignment if you weren't able to complete it during class.
Re-do the Shutter Speed assignment if necessary.
Complete the ISO assignment posted below. It shouldn't take you more than 15 minutes to complete it.
Read the write up for Project 1. It is very open to interpretation. Start shooting for it over the weekend so that you have some nice images to edit on Tuesday.
Remember that images for the YOU ARE HERE project must be submitted by January 31st. One should be from class. You can upload them during next class if you like.
Have a fun, photography filled weekend!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
ISO Assignment
Due Wednesday September 14th for section 002
Due Tuesday September 13th for section 001
Here is a nice little explanation of ISO by dpreview.com which is a nice source of camera reviews.
Here is a great write up about ISO by Nikon.
You are to take the same photo using all the ISOs that your camera offers. You can go by full stops; you don’t have to include fractions stops. So, it is likely that you camera’s native ISO is either 100 or 200. Start there. Determine the correct exposure. You need to change your shutter speed and aperture each time you change your ISO. For example, let's say you start with f5.6 @ 1/125 using ISO 100. When you change the ISO to 200, the camera only requires 1/2 the amount of light so you must either change your aperture to f8 or change your shutter speed to 1/250. Your exposures must be reciprocal (they should all be the same in terms of brightness). As such, the histograms should be nearly identical for all the shots. When viewed small, you shouldn’t be able to see any differences between the shots.
It will be easiest to achieve this outside on a nice day, but you can do it inside or with low light levels outside if necessary. In low light, you may have to use a slow shutter that will necessitate the use of tripod or putting the camera on something solid and releasing the shutter using the self timer. Whatever you shoot, make sure there is a variety of color and tone in the scene.
Since most of you will have a subset of the following ISOs, you should be able to complete this with less than 8 shots total.
50
100
200
400
800
1600
3200
6400
YOU CAN DO THIS NEXT PART IN CLASS:
I then want you to zoom into the resulting images either on your camera, on Flickr, or using Bridge. If you zoom into 100 or 200% you should see considerable difference between the shots taken with a low ISO and those taken with a high ISO. Often, there isn’ considerable difference between the lowest few ISOs, but at some point there is a big decline in image quality. Is there a particular tonal range that you find the noise most prevalent? Describe the characteristic of the noise. At what ISO do you feel that the image becomes unacceptable? Please write your responses to these questons and your observations on ISO in the description of your highest ISO image on Flickr.
Here is a great write up about ISO by Nikon.
You are to take the same photo using all the ISOs that your camera offers. You can go by full stops; you don’t have to include fractions stops. So, it is likely that you camera’s native ISO is either 100 or 200. Start there. Determine the correct exposure. You need to change your shutter speed and aperture each time you change your ISO. For example, let's say you start with f5.6 @ 1/125 using ISO 100. When you change the ISO to 200, the camera only requires 1/2 the amount of light so you must either change your aperture to f8 or change your shutter speed to 1/250. Your exposures must be reciprocal (they should all be the same in terms of brightness). As such, the histograms should be nearly identical for all the shots. When viewed small, you shouldn’t be able to see any differences between the shots.
It will be easiest to achieve this outside on a nice day, but you can do it inside or with low light levels outside if necessary. In low light, you may have to use a slow shutter that will necessitate the use of tripod or putting the camera on something solid and releasing the shutter using the self timer. Whatever you shoot, make sure there is a variety of color and tone in the scene.
Since most of you will have a subset of the following ISOs, you should be able to complete this with less than 8 shots total.
50
100
200
400
800
1600
3200
6400
YOU CAN DO THIS NEXT PART IN CLASS:
I then want you to zoom into the resulting images either on your camera, on Flickr, or using Bridge. If you zoom into 100 or 200% you should see considerable difference between the shots taken with a low ISO and those taken with a high ISO. Often, there isn’ considerable difference between the lowest few ISOs, but at some point there is a big decline in image quality. Is there a particular tonal range that you find the noise most prevalent? Describe the characteristic of the noise. At what ISO do you feel that the image becomes unacceptable? Please write your responses to these questons and your observations on ISO in the description of your highest ISO image on Flickr.
Friday, January 20, 2012
UT Juried Student Art Exhbit - must submit work by February 17th & 18th
CALL FOR ENTRIES: THE 2012 UTART STUDENT JURIED EXHIBITION
SUBMIT ARTWORK ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 OR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 10pm-4pm
3 SUBMISSIONS PER STUDENT / ENTRY FORMS AVAILABLE AT THE CVA FRONT OFFICE
ELIGIBILITY
Open to any undergraduate, graduate or post-baccalaureate student currently enrolled in courses at the University of Toledo.
MEDIA/PRESENTATION
Open to all media. Artwork must be installation ready (i.e. 2d work must be framed) upon submission. *
PROCEDURES
A maximum of 3 artworks per student may be submitted. Submitted work should have 1 Identification Tag affixed to each work in addition to a completed Entry Form.* Entry Forms and Identification Tags will be made available in the CVA Department of Art front office.
*Artwork that does not comply with these guidelines/procedures will not be accepted.
For information contact Ben Pond, CVA Gallery director: benjamin.pond@utoledo.edu
SUBMIT ARTWORK ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 OR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 10pm-4pm
3 SUBMISSIONS PER STUDENT / ENTRY FORMS AVAILABLE AT THE CVA FRONT OFFICE
ELIGIBILITY
Open to any undergraduate, graduate or post-baccalaureate student currently enrolled in courses at the University of Toledo.
MEDIA/PRESENTATION
Open to all media. Artwork must be installation ready (i.e. 2d work must be framed) upon submission. *
PROCEDURES
A maximum of 3 artworks per student may be submitted. Submitted work should have 1 Identification Tag affixed to each work in addition to a completed Entry Form.* Entry Forms and Identification Tags will be made available in the CVA Department of Art front office.
*Artwork that does not comply with these guidelines/procedures will not be accepted.
For information contact Ben Pond, CVA Gallery director: benjamin.pond@utoledo.edu
Technical Assignment #1 Shutter Speed
Due Tuesday:
Your assignment is to take a series of photos using your full range of shutter speeds. In order to achieve this, you will have to change your shutter speed (of course!), aperture, and ISO as needed. Use a tripod, otherwise all the photos taken with a shutter speeds below 1/60 will become progressively more blurry. Find something/someone that can repeat a movement such as someone jumping, dancing, bouncing, spinning, twirling, trying to fly, etc. You are to take the same photo (as much as possible) using all the shutter speeds that your camera offers.This way, you can see how the change in shutter speed changes how the motion is rendered.
Below is a photo of the whiteboard from Thursday's class featuring the notes from the shutter speed demonstration.
Your assignment is to take a series of photos using your full range of shutter speeds. In order to achieve this, you will have to change your shutter speed (of course!), aperture, and ISO as needed. Use a tripod, otherwise all the photos taken with a shutter speeds below 1/60 will become progressively more blurry. Find something/someone that can repeat a movement such as someone jumping, dancing, bouncing, spinning, twirling, trying to fly, etc. You are to take the same photo (as much as possible) using all the shutter speeds that your camera offers.This way, you can see how the change in shutter speed changes how the motion is rendered.
Start by determining the correct exposure. For example, let's say you start with f32 @ 30” using ISO 100. You need to change your aperture and/or your ISO each time you change your shutter speed. When you change the shutter speed to 15”, the camera only requires 1/2 the amount of light so you must either change your aperture to f16 or your ISO to 200.
Your exposures must be reciprocal (they should all be the same in terms of brightness). As such, the histograms should be nearly identical for all the shots. You can go by full stops; you don’t have to include fractions stops. So, it is likely that you camera has a range of 30 seconds - 1/4000 of a second.
Most of you will have a subset of the following shutter speeds. Just worry about these standard whole stop shutter speeds (don’t worry about the fractional stop shutter speeds such as 1/50, 1/40, etc.)
1/8000
1/4000
1/2000
1/1000
1/500
1/250
1/125
1/60
1/30
1/15
⅛
¼
½
1”
2”
4”
8”
15”
30”
You may find that you can't do this assignment outside in the daylight because you may find that your camera will overexpose the image when using very slow shutter speeds even when using even when using your smallest aperture (likely f32) and your lowest ISO (likely 100 or 200). Given that and that it is very cold outside, you might find it easiest complete this assignment inside.
Here are some nice examples of how a change in shutter speed changes how motion is rendered.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
YOU ARE HERE TOLEDO project
Here is a link to the site with the Call for Participation.
Deadline for submitting 3 JPEGs of your art is January 31st. I am requiring you to submit to this.
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