CAMERA HANDLING SKILLS

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Please refer to this resource to help you navigate your camera’s function and settings. You will learn how to apply these skills learning to various photo-shoots over the next few months…and you should aim to provide evidence of these skills throughout your coursework.

Remember to practice and experiment. Use your eyes and look. The more you look, the more you will see. How you see the world will determine what kind of photographer you will become.

A camera is only a tool, and it is down to you to get the best out of your equipment by becoming confident and comfortable

Camera Skills

You must experiment with each of these skill areas as we move through our sequence of photo-shoots. Remember to include / produce a blog post on each that includes evidence of your experiments and successes…

Remember to use What / How / Why / When when describing and explaining what you are experiencing and achieving with each of these…

  1. Using Auto-Focus
  2. Using Manual Focus
  3. White Balance
  4. ISO
  5. Aperture
  6. Focal Length : wide, standard and telephoto lenses
  7. Depth of Field
  8. Show / fast Shutter Speed
  9. Exposure and exposure compensation
  10. Exposure bracketing

Ansel Adams and the visualisation of an image

Exposure Triangle : ISO – Shutter Speed- Aperture

The Exposure Triangle – Action Camera Blog

Depth of Field

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Camera function layout
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Camera function layout
Ensure you are using technical vocab too…use the helpsheet to guide your literacy

Exposure Bracketing

Many digital cameras include an Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) option. When AEB is selected, the camera automatically takes three or more shots, each at a different exposure. Auto Exposure Bracketing is very useful for capturing high contrast scenes for HDR like this…

…by taking the same photograph with a range of different exposure settings

bracketed-exposures

You can use Exposure Compensation to quickly adjust how light or how dark your exposure will be using these controls…

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Or set the amount of “bracketing” like this…

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Then you can create your High Dynamic Range images by using this process in Adobe Photoshop…

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Understanding Composition

  1. The Rule of Thirds
  2. One of the fundamentals of painting and photography, the Rule of Thirds is a technique designed to help artists and photographers build drama and interest in a piece. The rule states that a piece should be divided into nine squares of equal size, with two horizontal lines intersecting two vertical lines.
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2. Fibonacci Curve

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3. Triangles / angles / Golden Section

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Cropping / framing

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Create drama / impact with cropping

20 Composition Techniques That Will Improve Your Photos

Understanding Lenses and Focal Length

Camera lenses & focal length. What are the numbers on a lens?

Perspective and Depth

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Linear Perspective (some examples may include a vanishing point)
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Atmospheric Perspective

Photo Shoot Plan

CAMERA SKILLS

FORMAL ELEMENTS

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