BELMONT CLASS

CLASS KEYNOTE PDFs:

• EXPOSURE PDF

• Shutter Speed

• Depth of Field

• Focal Length

• Composition

• Design

• Influential Photographer List

We will discuss this stuff later.

ASSIGNMENTS

You can look ahead if you want but this might change. 

Assignment 1: Create an image using your phone camera that is representative of the image you chose from the famous photographer list. Think about composition and design using the famous photo as a guide. When I started playing guitar I would learn other, famous music rather than just start writing my own stuff. By using other influential work as a reference you can learn some of the basics of composition, design and lighting that will eventually lead to better photos of your own. Turn into the drive above. If you have trouble turning it in, email the images to me at arlundphoto@gmail.com

Shutter Speed / Dof Assignment

Practice shooting shallow DOF (open aperture) and deep DOF ( Small Aperture ) shots & remember how focal length plays its part in DOF. 

Also play with some slow shutter speeds. You will have to use some sort of tripod or something to keep your camera stable. a beanbag works well if you do not have a tripod.  Fast shutter speeds are harder to illustrate just because of subject matter. It needs to be something defying the laws of gravity or stopping obvious action like fast water. 

Doing this will force you to learn exposure because you will have to be adjusting for light as you change your Shutter and Aperture values. 

Ted Forbes Composition in Photography Playlist : 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGEE7pGLuppTEjrviNCTwDHA00VsMzsAl

Please watch this. I feel the most important would be the rule of odds though. The newer videos he has 10-12 are interesting. Look at 11. 

The other thing to do this week is review how to expose your camera in manual setting. Read your light meter.

A rule of thumb is: Figure out your ISO on what kind of light you have, then go shoot. Don’t touch your ISO unless you absolutely have to.  Why would you have to? If you can’t get an exposure that lets you take a picture shooting handheld above  1/60 of a sec. Remember, don’t hand hold if slower than that. There is a good chance for camera shake. That is whne you raise your ISO to get you some “more” light

Don’t forget to download the influential photographer list under pdfs

Here is a video I did for students during the start of the Covid lockdowns on March 23 2020. It goes over a lot of what we were talking about with the Equivalent exposure. Watch this and see if it makes any sense based off of what we discussed Thursday. 

LIGHTING CLASS:

Let me try and explain On Axis Fill Light: I briefly talked about this but it was in passing and something I wanted to get into tonight but will have to do it next week. Watch this and write down some questions you might have.

Here is another video I would like you to watch from a great photographer who I have taught with before Peter Hurley. He is awesome. This is another way of looking at what we have been working on with turning “white to black” by the distance of subject to the light. This is called the Inverse Square Law. I hope that you will recognize some of the concepts in this video.

And for your assignment… I want you to find a flashlight or use the natural light or a lamp or really whatever you can find as a light source and make some images thinking about the light patterns. Here is a video of me using a video light in a hotel room. Look at the light patterns. Rembrandt and then Loop. For the assignment:

Photograph an example of:
1.Butterfly/Paramount
2.Loop.
3.Rembrandt

Here is a downloadable PDF of a workbook I’d like to start going through. It has more information on the light patterns.