Digital Art 2017-18

In-Class Assignment: Wednesday, 9/13/17 Bracketing, Shutter Speed, & Aperture

Today in class, you will practice making photographs using your camera’s available shutter speed and aperture settings.

1. Set your camera’s mode dial to shutter priority (Tv). You will then make numerous exposures using all the shutter speeds and f-stops on your camera. You may need to set your camera on a tripod or some other stable surface. Set the camera to shutter priority (Tv) and make exposures using every possible shutter speed on your camera while repeatedly photographing an object or person moving across the picture plane. You should divide into groups of 2, and have 1 group member run across the picture plane while 1 member photographs. Your images will range from freezing the subject’s action to having a blurry subject progressing across the photograph.

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3. Then switch to the camera’s aperture priority (Av) to make exposures using every possible f-stop on the camera while repeatedly photographing a series of objects that recede into space. Your images will range from only one or two objects being in focus to having the entire scene sharp.

3. Next, you will expose 3 images (scenes) in groups of three. This is called bracketing. Pick a scene, and make 3 exposures of it using your camera’s meter: one stop under exposed, one stop correctly exposed, and one stop over exposed. Do this 3 times and you will have 9 images when you are finished.

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