Super Moon
1. Use a tripod! A flat surface will only allow you to shoot straight, and shooting the moon means that you'll be shooting up and constantly re-adjusting the tripod as the moon moves throughout the night.
2. Use a shutter release cord, remote or the camera's self timer if you don't have one, so that you don't move the camera when pressing the shutter release during a long exposure.
3. Use a zoom lens and zoom in as much as you can to the moon. It's okay if it's not a super fancy lens, this was shot using a 15 year old $100 lens. Focus in on the craters and details on the moon.
4. ISO 1250- 1600, so that you can use as fast a shutter speed as you can without losing detail-the longer the shutter speed, the more chances you have the camera will shake even slightly in the wind, resulting in an out of focus photograph.
5. Aperture priority of f/5.6 since you are not worried about capturing any details other then the moon.
6. Bracket your exposure, meaning over expose and underexpose the photograph from what the camera is telling you. Generally the camera will overexpose the moon, so you'll get nothing but a white blob in the sky. Use the exposure compensation button (the +/- button below the shutter release) and change the exposure to -0.5, then -1.0, then -1.5 and so on, until you start seeing detail in the moon. You may go as far as -5.0 exposure compensation to get what you need.
7. Take a fair amount of photos and keep refocusing as the night progresses. The photographs may look focused on the camera's display, but you won't really see if they're completely in focus until you upload them onto your computer screen.
2. Use a shutter release cord, remote or the camera's self timer if you don't have one, so that you don't move the camera when pressing the shutter release during a long exposure.
3. Use a zoom lens and zoom in as much as you can to the moon. It's okay if it's not a super fancy lens, this was shot using a 15 year old $100 lens. Focus in on the craters and details on the moon.
4. ISO 1250- 1600, so that you can use as fast a shutter speed as you can without losing detail-the longer the shutter speed, the more chances you have the camera will shake even slightly in the wind, resulting in an out of focus photograph.
5. Aperture priority of f/5.6 since you are not worried about capturing any details other then the moon.
6. Bracket your exposure, meaning over expose and underexpose the photograph from what the camera is telling you. Generally the camera will overexpose the moon, so you'll get nothing but a white blob in the sky. Use the exposure compensation button (the +/- button below the shutter release) and change the exposure to -0.5, then -1.0, then -1.5 and so on, until you start seeing detail in the moon. You may go as far as -5.0 exposure compensation to get what you need.
7. Take a fair amount of photos and keep refocusing as the night progresses. The photographs may look focused on the camera's display, but you won't really see if they're completely in focus until you upload them onto your computer screen.
Principles of Art
Balance
Proportion
Rhythm
Emphasis
Harmony
Variety
Unity
Elements of Art
Texture
Space
Line
Form
Value
Shape
Space
- Real space is three dimensional. Space is a work of art refers to a feeling of depth or three dimensions it can also refer to an artist’s use or the area around the picture plane.
- Positive space-The space occupied by the primary object
- Negative space- The space around the primary object
Texture
- The surface quality of an object that will sense through touch. All objects have a physical object
- In two dimensional work, texture gives a visual sense of how an object depicted would feel in real life if touched.
Form
- Form is three dimensional has height, width, and depth
Shape
- Shape is two dimensional, with a width and height
- Organic shape- a shape made by nature not completely defined
- Inorganic shape- manmade such as triangles and rectangles
Color
- Color has three main characteristics hue (Red, yellow, green) value (how light or dark it is) and intensity (how bright or dull it is) Colors can also be described as warm (red, yellow), or cool (blue, green)
- Monochromatic- one color plus its tints (adding white) and shades (adding black)
- Complimentary colors- colors opposite of each other on the color wheel
- Analogous colors- Colors next to each other on the color wheel.
This photograph was taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1915, from the back window at 291. The geometric lines of New York's cityscape dominate the photo, which gives the camera rich range of tone depicting the drama of the city by night. This has allowed the photo to be sucessful because it brings back memorys of his early work along with the geometric forms of the roofs in the foreground recalling concers of his recent photography.
Line
- One direction and can vary in width, direction, and length
- Lines also can define the edges of a form
- Lines can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal
- Lines lead your eyes around the composition
Respect Yourself
For my respect yourself project I chose to use a picture of one of my peers facing a breaking down the walls painting, with her hand out touching it. We usually build up walls because we have been betrayed or hurt, but when you set standards that are high and not let anyone in that doesn't respect your boundaries. You start to gain trust and respect for the ones that actually are there for you which might take a while to build but it's worth it. Respect is overall an evaluation you give someone based on many factors one which being the worth or personal values that you attach to yourself or others.
Light Painting
1. These light painting pictures were taken on a tripod, in a dark room on manual focus, while using an app called mylightpainting.
2. A struggle that was encountered while doing the light painting was probably capturing everything being done in the picture in such a short amount of time.
3.Three important things I learned from light paintings are you need a sturdy tripod, a digital timer, and a powerful flashlight for the picture to be captured.
4. Another idea you could do with light painting is use long exposures to create lighting effects.
2. A struggle that was encountered while doing the light painting was probably capturing everything being done in the picture in such a short amount of time.
3.Three important things I learned from light paintings are you need a sturdy tripod, a digital timer, and a powerful flashlight for the picture to be captured.
4. Another idea you could do with light painting is use long exposures to create lighting effects.
Shutter Speed
Cyanotype
John Herschel invented the Cyanotype in 1842.
Cyanotype is made up from Potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate.
Steps:
1. Mix the solution together
2. Take a paper and soak it in the solution
3.Negative is placed on top then using sunlight or UV lamp until image is printed onto the canvas
4. Process the photo using water and hydrogen peroxide and let it dry.
John Herschel invented the Cyanotype in 1842.
Cyanotype is made up from Potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate.
Steps:
1. Mix the solution together
2. Take a paper and soak it in the solution
3.Negative is placed on top then using sunlight or UV lamp until image is printed onto the canvas
4. Process the photo using water and hydrogen peroxide and let it dry.
Shutter speed
How shutter speeds are measured
Rule of thumb for shutter speed
Iso
General rule of thumb
Modes of the DSLR
How to hold a DSLR
- shutter speed also know as “exposure time, stands for the length of the time camera shutter is open to expose light into the camera sensor.
- If the shutter speed is fast, it can help to freeze action completely
- if the shutter speed is slow, it can create an effect called “motion blur”
How shutter speeds are measured
- shutter speeds are typically measured in fractions of a second, when they are under a second.
- for example ¼ means a quarter of a second, while 1/250 means one two-hundred-and-fiftieth of a second of four milliseconds.
Rule of thumb for shutter speed
- the slowest shutter speed for handheld photography is 1/60. Anything lower than that should either be on a tripod or on a straight, solid surface
- Any slower handled shutter speed begins to get motion blur and you photograph may be out of focus.
Iso
- is the level of sensitivity of your camera to available light.
- the lower the iso number, the less sensitive it is to the light, while the higher iso number increases the sensitivity of your camera.
- the component within your camera that can change sensitivity is called ‘ image story’ or simply ‘sensor’
- With increased sensitivity, your camera sensor can capture images in low light environments without having to use a flash. But high sensitivity comes at an expense-it adds gain.
General rule of thumb
- Bright and sunny
- cloudy, 250 iso
- Indoors, 500iso
- Night time with flash or tripod, 1600 iso
Modes of the DSLR
- M- Manual control over aperture and shutter
- A- Aperture priority
- S- Shutter priority
- P- Camera sets shutter speed and aperture
How to hold a DSLR
- Have the camera strap around your neck at all times and
- Hold the camera by the less and hand grip if possible-treat with care