Art 83 - Intermediate Digital Photography - Outline

Outline

Intro

Self
Student

Camera/System
Previous Experience
Motivation/Objectives
Previous Work - (Following session review)

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Best Practices

Original Files
Working Files

Camera Raw

Lab Procedures

File Naming conventions
Storage drives
Temporary Drives
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Regarding working files from disk

Lecture:

Camera (*Digital)

  • Review

    CCD/Super CCD/CMOS

    Change couple device - Individual sensors / samples
    Pixel / grain
    Bit Depth

    Shutter speed
    Apeture
    Film Speed - Sensitivity (iso) equivalent to grain /noise in lower light situations
    White Balance
  • Lens

    Focal Length - Shorter focal length - 50mm become 72/105
    Sensory sizes vary although typically smaller than 35mm
    Greater Depth of field,
  • LCD - Liquid Crystal Display


Transport / Storage

  • USB
  • Firewire/ iLink / IEEE1394
  • Thunderbolt

  • Flash Card
  • Memory Stick
  • CD
  • DVD
  • Memory/Storage
    DVD/CD/INTERNET
  • Cloud - networked

Core File Issues

  • Size Dimensions
  • Resolution
  • File Size (storage)
  • File Type
  • Compression
  • Bit Depth

    Color Models
    Chrominance
    Luminance

Lightroom/Adobe Bridge/Photoshop/


Best Practices (Reviewed)
Transport and Organization

Library Module

File Browser
File Info
CD/DVD

Web Gallery
Contact Sheet II


Develop Module:

Camera Raw - Basic Tabs


Selection, Manipulation and Repair

Selections
Cropping

Spotting
Clone
Healing
History

Color/tonal Correction

Exposure
Levels
Curves
Auto
Color Modes
Conversion (black and white)

 

Output Printing

Color Management
Resolution
Pre-Press File Preparation
File Types

Output Web


Optimization
Automation Techniques

Legal / Copyright Issues

Protecting your images
Respecting the work of others

Example Assignments

Shooting in Twilight / Low Light without a flash.

Feel free to experiment, try to find the lowest level of light possible to render a readable image.

Depending on what you may or may not know regarding ISO, experiment with this setting in your camera as well.

Bracketing Exposures -

3 Subjects - 3-5 exposures for each with alternate exposure.

1st exposure according to meter reading.
2nd + .5 half step greater aperture/shutter selection or more exposure (over)
3rd + 1 whole step (full stop) greater aperture/shutter selection (over)
4th .5 half step smaller aperture/shutter selection or less exposure (under)
5th - 1 whole step smaller aperture/shutter selection or less exposure (under)

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Experiment with White Balance Bracketing.

Depth of Field
3-5 Images which illustrate the side effects of aperture selections.

Motion / Blur
3-5 Images which illustrate the side effects of shutter speed / time value selections.

Subject explorations / Framing exercise. Shoot a minimum of 20 images of a single subject from every angle and a variety of compositional arrangements. explore position/ balance/ background/ etc...


3-5 images of light. Where light is the central subject or primary focus of the image. Consider both ambient or existing natural and artificial light sources and utiliting the flash. Be sure to also experiment with the flash in daylight. What impact does it have ... ?

Alternate Assignments:


Cropping 5-n-1 - Take an existing file and crop to create 5 different image files. Focus is on re-framing and composing. Not compositing.

Composite - 1 in 5 - Create one image file from the components or pieces of minimum 5 image files. Create multiple variations on the composition at will.

Bokeh- Create a series of like images of the same subject with various lenses @ largest to smallest aperture bracketed to test bokeh results for all.

Flare / Glare - Create a series of images exploring the selective use of glare /flare with alternate light sources (*sunlight, streetlights (sodium vapor), car lights(halogen).

Tilt Shift - Create a series of landscape images exploring tilt shift or the post focus effect simulating tilt shift. (an optical system (such as a camera) when the lens plane is not parallel to the image plane produces an effect of selective focus. Originally developed to correct for converging parallel lines in aerial photography.

At the edges of light and shadow - Create a series of images exploring the contrast at edges between shadow and light. Experiment with exposure latitude, extremes between 10 and 2 with direct natural light.

Captioned - Submit 3 images with a brief textual description. Explore the challenges of describing an image to someone with a visual impairement or someone lacking visual acess to the image.