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…

Using Auto-Focus
Using Manual Focus
White Balance
ISO
Aperture
Focal Length : wide, standard and telephoto lenses
Depth of Field
Show / fast Shutter Speed
Exposure and exposure compensation
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

Image result for canon camera control dial — 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

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

Or set the amount of “bracketing” like this…

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

Understanding Composition

The Rule of Thirds
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.