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  • Composition – The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

    Composition – The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

    3. The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly Requirements

    After our composition discussion, you should be able to filter the content of your images more effectively and arrange things to be more pleasing and emphasize your choices. Further, our exposure discussion should give you the tools you’ll need to grade your images effectively to emphasize the subjects of your choosing.

    For this assignment, you’ll need to choose an interesting or unusual outdoor subject such as an old car, a barn, or anything that can stand out in its environment. It can be anything, as long as you can isolate it in a pleasing compositional manner.

    Take 5 images with poor composition and good exposure. Take 5 more images with good composition and good exposure. Be prepared to explain why the poor composition is poor and why you consider the good compositions to be good. Don’t take the easy way out. Find a subject you can frame and compose well.

    This assignment is for Digital Photography course (ART 2060) at Dixie State University in St. George, Utah taught by Alex Chamberlain in the Fall of 2015.

  • Movement – Shutter Speed & Aperture

    Movement – Shutter Speed & Aperture

    2. Movement – Shutter Speed & Aperture Requirements

    Shutter Speed and Aperture both play a crucial role in the “look” or aesthetics of your image. Your camera’s Program and Auto modes can properly expose an image, but they will NOT allow you to control how your camera treats motion, or your depth of field; both crucial elements to making an image look the way you want. This is one of the primary practices that separates a professional photographer from the family snapshot jockey.

    1. Subject one must be flowing water.
    2. 2. A machine with moving parts (in motion).

    Subject one (Must be moving water): Using your camera’s shutter priority (Tv or S) mode, take shots of your subject at different shutter speeds (at least 5 shots) and observe the difference in the images. At least one of these shots should have a shutter speed slower than 1/10 of a second.

    Subject two: (Machine with moving parts) Move close to your subject, and zoom in. Using your camera’s aperture priority (Av or A) mode, take shots of your subject at different aperture values (at least 5 shots) and observe the difference in the images.

    This assignment is for Digital Photography course (ART 2060) at Dixie State University in St. George, Utah taught by Alex Chamberlain in the Fall of 2015.