Digital Camera Checklist

1. Don't drop the camera.  Beware of  water, sand and dirt, heat, food, and kids
2. Be sure camera is secure and all legs are locked when using tripod.
3. Turn on camera.
4. Battery, sd card, and don't forget to charge battery.
5. Program mode dial ( Place on TV -Time Value )
6. Lens
• Please don't remove lens.
• Don't lose the lens cap.
• UV Protector.
• Zoom/Focal Length.
• Keep stabilization on.
• Auto Focus on.
• Listen for the beep to inform you camera has focused.
• How to focus and recompose image without losing the focus.
• AF Point selection ( Select either center point or automatic selection )
7. ISO ( Changes how sensitive you sensor is to light )
• Smaller the number less sensitive to light ( Day light ) 100 - 800
• Bigger the number more sensitive light ( Low Light ) 1600 - 6400
• Auto ISO
• As the ISO increases the image will get more noisy.
8. White balance place on Auto.
9. Shutter/Aperture dial works with Aperture Value button
• Shutter regulates the amount of time.
• Aperture regulates amount light.
10.  Choose the correct file type ( RAW )
11. Erase images

FINAL STUDY GUIDE

UV Filter - Filter to protect lens

Polarizing Filter - Filter that helps get rid of unwanted reflections.

Nuetral Density Filter - Enables photographers to decrease the depth of field, use slow shutter speeds, and decrease the effective ISO

White Balance Symbols

Exposure Triangle Parts (Understand linked diagram and be able to answer questions related to diagram)

Identify these cameras ( Rangefinder(Leica), SLR, Field Camera, View Camera, Medium Format camera (Hasselblad)

What is a photogram cameraless photograph

Photoshop - robust photo editing product that can be used manipulate photos, create design, create photomontages.

Lightroom - organizes all your pictures into catalogs. It allows simple editing of pictures.

 

What are the skills you need to be a professional 1. Software knowledge 2. Lighting 3. Camera use 4. Context/Photography History 5. Understanding your individual creative process 

• Grey card 18% grey value

• Identify Spot Meter, Matrix/Evaluative, and Center Weighted Meter

• Ambient/Incident unique type of meter that reads light falling on subject.

• Rule of Thirds

• Golden Ratio

• Contrast - difference in value within a photograph

• Enlarger - used in dark room to make a photographic print

• Bellows - looks like an accordion and aids in focusing in the darkroom and large format camera's

 

M -  Manual Mode change your aperture and shutter yourself

A / AV - Aperture Priority

S /TV - Shutter Priority

 (P) - Program Automatic mode

• Noise random speckles and grain or variation of brightness or color info in pictures.

• Exposure amount of light that reaches your film or sensor when you take your picture.

• Contrast difference in Values in photograph

• Lens speed refers to the maximum aperture diameter, or minimum f-number, of a photographic lens.

• Robert Frank (Photographer who roamed the United States in the 1950’s and is associated with the beat generation.)

• Pieter Hugo (Photographer interested in the issues connected with Africa.)

• Seydou Keita (Commercial photographer in Africa who worked in the 1950’s & 1960’s whose work rose to the level of art.)

• Jacqueline Hassink (Photographs critiqued corporate boardrooms and how woman were used to sell cars.)

• Carrie Mae Weems (Photographer whose primary concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and place of African-Americans.)

• Cindy Sherman ( Photographs use post modern ideas to critique female gender stereotypes )

• Andreas Gursky (Photographer who is interested not in the individual, but the human environment.  Images focus on globalism.)

• William Eggleston ( Photographed the American South using color film & had what he called a democratic way of looking.)

• Tomatsu Shomie (Photographer that photographed objects, locations, and the people of Nagasaki.)

• Gary Winnogrand (Street photographer who used a range finder camera to capture the drama theater of the street.)
• Catherine Opie (Documents the people of Southern California by focusing on football players and surf culture and local Los Angeles shopkeepers.)

Final Photography Project

1. Pictures need to be 8 x 10 inches or larger on photography paper.
2. Single theme or subject.
3. Credit will be given if edited or if has a aesthetic or visual theme.  Example all pictures black and white or all pictures shot with a specific filter such as Dramatic Warm, Vivid Cool. Credit will also be giving for thoughtful approaches to composition.
4. Five photographs.
5. Try to relate images to specific artist or photograph we have discussed in class.
6. Think or reflect on what, how you make your pictures.
7. Participate in class discussion/critique.

Exercise Checklist

:: All pictures printed 4x6 or 5x7 inches.
:: Label each exercise.
1.  Lighting - two photographs same place different lighting.  Different time of day. (2 photos)
2.  Portraits/framing - Close up, medium shot, full body shot, long shot. (4 photos)
3. Slow shutter - long shutter exposure (1 photo)
4. Aperture/Depth Field - soft back ground using a short distance and selective focus. (2 photos)
5. Bracketing - five different exposures 0, -1. -2, +1, +2.  (5 photos)
6. Collage
7. White Balance - 3 pictures using these temperatures 2500K, 5000K, 8000K.  You can use white presets such as tungsten, flourescent, daylight, etc. (3 photos)
8. Black and White Photograph - convert 3 different photos edited to become black and white. Demonstrated using Photoshop Express (3 photos)
9. 4 Photographs using these subjects shadow, self portrait, reflection, silhouette. (4 photos)
10. Composition using these 3 ideas texture, line, and shape. (3 photos)
11. Double exposure or merged photograph. (1 picture) Recommend using for Apple OS Image Blender and for Android OS use Ultimate Photo Mixer.

MIDTERM

1. APERTURE  controls amount of light.
2. SHUTTER SPEED controls the amount of time
3. Meter evaluates the brightness/intensity of light
4.Dodging - subtracting light/time from a print in the darkroom.  Makes sections of photo lighter in value. Term used in photoshop to describe making a section lighter value.
5. Burning - adding light/time to a print in the darkroom. Makes sections darker value. Term used Photoshop to describe making a section darker value.
6. ISO/ASA - how sensitive film or digital sensor is to light. Smaller the number less sensitive/bigger more sensitive to light.

7. (Colloidal Process) Requires the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes and creates a negative.
8. (Daguerreotype)Photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered copper plate and mercury vapor to create a single image.
9. (Calotype) an early photographic process in which negatives were made using paper coated with silver iodide.
10. (Silver Gelatin) dry plate process, one step process, allows for some portability since you no longer need a portable darkroom
11. (Cyanotype) Non silver process that creates a blue image.

12. (Albumen Print) Print process that used egg whites and was popular way to make prints at the end of the 19th century.

13. (Platinum Print) Used noble metals and goes out favor because cost and scarcity of materials during World War 1.

 14. Depth of field is effected by 3 things: A} Aperture   B} Distance from subject  C} Choice of focal length

• Memorize these apertures
2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11,16, 22

• Memorize these shutter speeds
1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000

 Types of camera's
1. Rangefinder (Leica M) Look for a rectangle left side
2. SLR single lens reflex (Canon Rebel) Look for bump on center
3. Medium Format (Hasselblad)
4. Large format view camera (Accordion) Look for a rail

 

15. Visual representation of values HISTOGRAM
16. Photograph a scene with multiple different exposures. BRACKETING

17. WIDE ANGLE - 24-35mm (35mm or full frame) gives you wider coverage to photograph more space
18. NORMAL 50mm  (35mm or full frame) approximates unaided human eye would see.
19. TELEPHOTO or LONG FOCUS  (35mm or full frame) 70 to 500mm magnifies what you are looking

 20. PRIME LENS - Single focal length
21. ZOOM LENS - Multiple focal lengths

22. (EDWARD S. CURTIS) Photographer who used the process of Ethnography a systematic study of people and cultures 
23. (PICTORIALISM) a style of photography that emphasizes creating or manipulating an image often to imitate the aesthetics of painting
24. (Group F/64) Photographic style characterized by sharp focused images and carefully framed images.
25. (Ansel Adams) Photographer who developed the zone system which divides a scene into values and how it would effect exposure and the aesthetics of the image.
26. (Dorothea Lange) Photographer that documented migrant farm works and Japanese Americans interred at Manzanar.
27. (Walker Evans) Photographer that documented farmers in Hale County Alabama and produced an important photography book called American Photographs.
28. (FSA Farm Security Administration) Government organization that hired a group of photographers to document how people were dealing with the great depression.
29. (August Sander) Photographer who produced a body of work that focused on portraits of people that represented all parts of German society 
30. (Albert Renger-Patzsch) photographer connected to the artistic style New Objectivity and whose subject focus on the natural world and industrial objects/machines.
31. (Lewis Hine) Photographer who helped change child labor laws.

 

32. Contact Sheet photograph made with negative physically touching the paper in order to make a print.

33. Darkroom Space to enlarge and make prints of photographs

34. Bellows accordion part of a large format camera