Tasks

=The Required tasks for the Fieldwork Day= For some of these tasks you may want to complete them outside of class for lighting, location, and time of day. The number of pictures I have listed is a guide. You may turn in more. I hope you take more and experiment. Have fun with these. Even though these are exercises take the best photgraphs you can.

===Required Tasks - these need to be “handed in” electronic form on the [|class blog]. The blog is where you may post your pictures or a link to your pictures. You will need to create an account at [|www.blogger.com]. If you want and fell comfortable go ahead and create your account before class. If you have no idea what to do, don't worry, we will go over it at class. Remember your login and what email address you use when you create your account.===

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Required Tasks

 * 1) Depth of Field - Create one picture with a shallow depth of field and then another with a deep depth of field. Take the same subject. Then try to use the same subject and using a shallow depth of field move or focal point, a series of at least three pictures.
 * 2) Shutter Speed - Select a moving images (trees moving in the breeze, running water (tap or river or...), traffic, people walking, flag fluttering) and take a series of five to ten photographs of the movement.
 * 3) Macro - Get in close, use the Macro mode or lens if you have one and get a sharp picture, larger than life. Turn in three of these.
 * 4) Pattern / Rhythm / Repetition - find a repeating pattern and take pictures from different angles, different focal depths. A constant pattern can be boring, look for little changes, or big to make it interesting. Five to seven photos.
 * 5) Color Theme - Take pictures with a color theme and present 8 to 12 of them.
 * 6) Portrait - formal or informal or Self Portrait or Group - Turn in five pictures.

Selectable Tasks - Do three of these today or later before the presentations

 * 1) ISO exercise - Take a series of pictures adjusting the ISO on your camera. Do this for three different subjects in different lighting. Make sure you do one subject in low light. One picture for each ISO setting, this will be camera dependent. Do this for each of the tree subjects.
 * 2) Tell a story about someone. You have one hour to go find someone and take pictures that tell a story about what this person dose.
 * 3) Frame your picture - use elements to frame your picture. These can be buildings fences, flowers (OK not this month), bushes to frame the pictures in the foreground.
 * 4) Texture - Look at skin, snow, gravel, wood, water and more.
 * 5) Motion - follow the Action. Show action in 5 pictures.
 * 6) Lighting Changes throughout the day on an object. (Tree, Building, sign post...). Set you camera white balance to Daylight. Take a minimum three pictures from the same location, one early morning, one midday, and one evening. More would be better, 6 to 8 times during the day. If you have time very early morning, pre-sunrise, during sunrise, and a bit after sunrise will show very different lighting, as will times throughout the day.
 * 7) Time exposures - day or night. Show 5 or more.
 * 8) Exposure Compensation (+/-) - build a table using the ranges and step on your camera. Do a landscape and an object.
 * 9) Landscape - Remember the element of interest.
 * 10) Record a demonstration (such as a science experiment)
 * 11) Still life with different lighting. - Natural light, flash, other lighting and lighting from different angles. You pick the lighting and turn in 5 photos.
 * 12) Take 30 - 40 photos of your favorite subject, such as your pet, a friend, dog race, skiers, musical instrument, students working on a project n a group or alone. . You will show the whole group and then your five best picks. Remember you are showing your favorite thing! not the all the other stuff around it. Please load this group on an web site like Picasa or Flickr or even Facebook, and not on the Blog. You may put the the best one on the blog with the link.
 * 13) Take a series of photographs of the same object but change the mode. This would be best with a tripod. The modes will be dependent on your camera and what it can do. Macro, portrait, landscape, and sports seem to be very common but you may have more. Then repeat the series of modes but take photographs of a landscape scene.
 * 14) White Balance - Show the same scene with different white balance. Use presets and then do a white balance with a white source and then try white balancing the camera on different colors, like a bright red, or blue or yellow and see the results. Display 5 or more.
 * 15) Circles/Arcs/Arches - Find something that is either or gives the impression of circles or round. It maybe natural or man made. Five pictures.