Sim-Cam

- f 4 looks best at 1/60 seconds, and the background is rarely visible.

- f 5.6 looks best at 1/125 seconds, and the background is kind of visible, not close to being clear though.

- f 8 looks best at 1/60 seconds, and the background is a little more visible now.

- f 11 looks best at 1/60 seconds, and the background is better, you can actually tell
what the background is.

- f 16 looks best at 1/30 seconds is just a little blurry, but you can tell what the background is.

- f 22 looks best at 1/15 seconds, and you can see the background clearly.


What is happening to the people themselves at slow Shutter Speeds? What could the photographer do to help combat this problem? What is the lowest Shutter Speed do you think a photographer can hand-hold the camera?

At slow shutter speeds, the picture either gets really blurry, to a point where you can't tell what it is, or it's just really bright. I think the lowest shutter speed that a photographer can use when hand-holding the camera would be f 5.6 or f 8. To fix the problem I think you could just change the shutter speeds.



 

ISO

1. What are the advantages of shoot at a higher ISO at a sporting event like basketball or a night football game? It's really clear, and it comes out in better lighting.
2. What suggestions did the author make about using a low ISO? the lower the ISO, the less sensitivity.
3. What suggestions did the author make about using a high ISO? the higher the ISO, the more sensitive the camera.
4. At the camera near you, please tell me what ISO's are available on your camera?
100, 200, 400, 800, 1600

ISO 200

ISO 3200

ISO 6400

Shutter Speed

1. If you were assigned to shoot at Blue and Gold night, which will be next month, what shutter speeds do you think you would have to shoot at the following events that night I would like you to answer the question for the following two situations:

At the beginning while the sun is still partially up and the courtyard has reasonable light
a.) the dunking booth - 1/2000 of a second
b.) the food eating contest - 1/250 of a second
c.) the rock climbing wall - 1/250 of a second
d.) someone working at a booth - 5 second exposure
e.) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle -  1/250 of a second
f.) the Diamonds performance. -  1/1600 of a second

Towards the end when there is no sun and has gotten dark enough that you can't see from one end of the courtyard to the other.
a.) the dunking booth - 1/2000 of a second
b.) the food eating contest - 1/1600 of a second
c.) the rock climbing wall - 1/1600 of a second
d.) someone working at a booth - 1/250 of a second
f.) the Diamonds performance. 1/2000 of a second

2. List the three settings your camera has regarding setting shutter speed (these are found at #5 on the Shutter Speed website. Explain how each works - DO NOT COPY AND PASTE, use your own words.


Auto-  the computer sets it for you.
Aperture Priority- you just set the aperture, while the camera sets the shutter speed.
Manual- when you set the aperture and shutter speed by yourself without the camera doing it for you.







3. With the camera near you, what are the shutter speeds available to you on that camera? You will have to turn the camera on to determine this - hopefully you can figure out what setting to put the camera on to determine the answer to this question.

30'' 25'' 20'' 15'' 13'', 10'' 8'' 6'' 5'' 4'' 3'' 2'' 1'' 6, 1"3, 1"0"8, 0"6, 0"5, 0"4, 0"3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/8, 1/10, 1/13, 1/15, 1/20, 1/25, 1/30, 1/40, 1/50, 1/60, 1/80, 1/100. 1/125, 1/160, 1/200, 1/250. 1/320, 1/400, 1/500, 1/640, 1/800, 1/1000, 1/1250, 1/1600, 1/2000, 1/2500, 1/3200, 1/4000.

Aperture

1. What part of the body should we closely relate aperture? to the eye.
2. Finish this sentence - the smaller the Aperture, the larger the f-stop, the higher the Aperture, the smaller the f-stop.
3. In your own words tell me how aperture impacts Depth of Field? The size of the Aperture affects the picture in a big way, like a small aperture makes the background completely blurry, but a larger aperture doesn't really do much.
4. With the camera near you - tell me the F stops available on the lens currently attached.


F4.5, F5.0, F5.6, F6.3, F7.1, F8.0, F9.0, F10, F11, F12, F13, F14, F15, F16, F17, F18, F19, F20, F21, F22, F23, F24, F25, F26, F27, F28, F29.

F 16

 

F 2.8

Black and White Powerpoint Review

The photos were really pretty, and really detailed, it almost looks like they were drawn.
My favorite photo was where the Lion and his "girl" were cuddling or snuggling together, it was so cute!

Nick Brandt

a.     What kind of camera did he use?

"He photographs on medium-format black and white film without telephoto or zoom lenses."

 b.     What is his reason for taking the photos?

"It was while directing “Earth Song”, a music video for Jackson in Tanzania, in 1995 that Brandt fell in love with the animals and land of East Africa. Over the next few years, frustrated that he could not capture on film his feelings about and love for animals, he realized there was a way to achieve this through photography, in a way that he felt no-one had really done before."

c.     What is his hope by taking these types of photos?

"One of his goals being to record a visually poetic last testament to the wild animals and places there before they are gone at the hands of man."

d.     Find something he has to say about Africa and post the quote on your blog
"It was while directing “Earth Song”, a music video for Jackson in Tanzania, in 1995 that Brandt fell in love with the animals and land of East Africa. Over the next few years, frustrated that he could not capture on film his feelings about and love for animals, he realized there was a way to achieve this through photography, in a way that he felt no-one had really done before."

Academic Shoot Reflection

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos following the rules I set out for you? I couldn't find a framing picture.


2. What technical aspects of photography or the assignment in general (focus, framing, holding the camera, etc.) did you find yourself thinking about the most? Provide a specific example of what you did to do this correctly. I was holding the camera well, and almost none of my pictures were blurry!


3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photography?  I would look for better examples.


4. What things would you do the same? The focus, and holding of the camera.
 

5. When you go out with your next set of prompts, which rule do you think will be the easiest to achieve?  Rule of Thirds.


6. Which rule do you think will be the hardest to capture? Well for me it would be Framing.


7. What rule are you still not totally clear on and what can you do to figure out what that rule is? I'm familiar with most of them, but if I didn't know, I'd go back to the composition website and read on them again.

Framing

:(

I didn't find a framing picture.

Lines

 

It wasn't as good, but the blinds show the lines in this photo.

The subject is/are the blinds.

I think it's kind of clear what the subject is, I think they would first notice the people.

I would have found a completely different example for Lines.

Merger

 

I like this one, I think it clearly shows what a merger is, on the left you can see that the girl was cut in half, and right in front, it's hard to notice but the guys body looks like a part of the girls body.

The subject is the two people in the front of the picture, and the girl in the left, cut in half.

I think so, if you really look.

Nothing different really.

Balance

 

It wasn't my best, but the two boys balance each other out, they were matching.

The subject is the two boys in the picture.

Yes, I think you can tell what the subject is.

I would have taken it from a different angle.

Simplicity

I think this one was good, because there on a simple background and it's just them.

The subject is the two people, and there blue background.

Yes, I think you can tell what the subject would be.

I would probably only do one person, and on the same background.

Rule Of Thirds

I think on my Rule of Thirds photo, is pretty good, I mean the person in my photo is in the lower left position, except the lighting was pretty bad.

My subject is the girl in the front of the class.

I think they would be able to tell who it is.

I did alright, I would just try a different position next time.

Most Interesting Stuff

This photo I think, fills the frame, because there's a ton of people to each corner of the picture.

Action and Emotion

In this picture you can see the emotion in the people's faces, there emotions are "happy".

First Day Shoot

I didn't/don't like this picture because it is way too blurry. It's not focused at all.

First Day Shoot

I liked this picture because it was the only one that didn't come out blurry!

The Story

      I picked this photo for my "best story" because there helping/feeding people who don't have a home, or a bed to sleep in, or a kitchen to cook in because life's been though for them, but with this small act of helping them means a lot to them in my view.

It visually tells a story, by showing that there feeding them, and it shows that they're happy.

Post Shoot Reflection

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos of your first 3 prompts (Red, Metal, Grumpy?  Trying to find someone who would act grumpy! The rest was pretty easy to find.

2. What technical aspects of photography or the assignment in general (focus, framing, holding the camera, etc.) did you find yourself thinking about the most? Provide a specific example of what you did to do this correctly. Framing; because I wanted to make sure I was taking a picture of that only, nothing else, and at a good angle with nothing in the way.

3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photograhy? I would try to balance the photo more, and actually focus the picture on what I want, and to make it simpler.

4. What things would you do the same? the focus and holding of the camera, I think I did pretty good at that.

5. Finally - go back and edit your blogs with the 3 photos (red, metal, grumpy), tell me what rules of composition (which you just learned about) did you end up actually achieving? Did you have any? Half, or not really. I didn't do very good at a lot of them!

6. Are you interested in shooting those prompts again, why? Yes! So I can shoot a photo a lot better know that I know the rules.

Merger

The merger in this photo, is where on the right, another person's arm is in this man's photo.

A merger is when you have a extra object blocking or in the background of the photo that doesn't need to be there, because it takes away attention from what you want people to see.

Framing

Both of these pictures had framed the center of
interest with objects in the foreground.

Balance

 

In this photo, I though it had good balance, because both of the buildings have a rectangular shape to them and both buildings are about the same size. Good balance is simply the arrangement of shapes, colors, or areas of light and dark that complement one another

Lines

 Lines to provide a way into the picture, It's a simple and easy path for the eye to follow to the main subject

Simplicity

In this picture, it's like a stamp, on a neutral background.

Simplicity is used to achieve the effect of singling out an item or items from their surrounding. 

Rule of Thirds

 

The Rule of Thirds is dividing the picture into equal parts, the effect of it is to allow linear features in the image to flow from one part to another.

 

GRUMPY

In this photo, a person was supposed to pose grumpy, this is kinda sorta grumpy.

RED

I picked this because It was a row of red lockers, to me RED is the COLOR RED.

METAL

To me this was metal, because a bike is made almost entirely of metal, and the bike was really cute!

Great black and white photographers, PART 2.

    Cindy Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American photographer and a Film director.
She lives and works in New York City.  She was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
She has many books published, for example:
-(2007) Cindy Sherman: A play of Selves
-(2006) Cindy Sherman: Working Girl
-(2004) Cindy Sherman: Centerfolds

Cindy attended Buffalo State College, she is in the field of Photography, she has worked in Fashion, Books, and Film & Video, and also music.

"I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity." - Cindy Sherman

Bastrop, TX Fire 2011

     When I first heard about the fire, I never expected it to be something so awful.
I can actually see the smoke from the fire behind my house, and I also had family that had to be evacuated out, This is a time were we all need to Pray and Help out the people of Bastrop.