PHOTOGRAPHY STUDY GUIDE FINAL FALL 2014

STUDY GUIDE

Research one photographer from this website masters-of-photography

 Discuss using the following
(Minimum)
One Bio fact
One idea related to content
One idea related to look or how made

• Memorize apertures and shutter speeds expect equivelent exposure question

Shutterspeeds
1, 2, 4, 8, 15, 30, 60, 125, 250, 500, 1000

Apertures
2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22 

• M, TV, AV, P
• Difference between JPG and Raw
• aperture, shutter speed, and ISO
• Depth of field (focal length lens, aperture size, & distance from subject)

• White balance symbols
• Burn and dodge terms
• Exposure equivelency questions
• Quality of different ISO's
• Quality of different apertures
• Quality of different shutterspeeds
• Types of lens

• Light meters (incident, reflected)
• Light meters (spot, center, matrix)

• Diagram rule of thirds and the golden ratio

• Direct light and diffused light
• JPG symbols
• Flash symbols
• White balance symbols

• Metadata
• spotting

• Grey card 18%
• Stop bath, developer, fixer
• Variable Contrast Filters (00-5)
• Histogram
• Panning

What to submit Digital Exposure Test

Contact Sheet

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Scene 1

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Scene 2

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Edited Scene

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Final Assignment

Submit 

• 5 printed and window matted images

• 4 contact sheets with 35 frames per sheet

Digital Exposure Test Assignment

6 files + Exposure Log

1. Edited photo

2. Contact Sheet

3.  Scene 1 with 4 exposures

4.  Scene 1 with 1 exposure

5.  Scene 2 with 4 exposures

6.  Scene 2 with 1 exposure

Single final Print 7.25 by 10.25

1. Crop and straighten (Custom aspect ration 7.25 x 10.25)

2. Adjust exposure

3. Adjust color temp if in color, or make black white

4. Burn and dodge

5. Place print mode chose 8 x 10 (a) Turn off zoom fit (b) Change height cell from 10 to 10.19

6. Hit print in jpg mode ( Resolution 300 and jpg quality 100)

Custom White Balance

Window Mat (FINAL PROJECT)

Materials needed for final project

11 x 14 inch white boards

* You will need between 10 - 12 boards.  I recommend you share a package.

ADOBE TV LIGHTROOM 5 LINK

Adobe TV Lightroom 5 videos

5 Pictures Due

1.  Shallow Depth of Field
2.  Intentional Blur
3.  Stop Action
4.  Choice from 1, 2, 3 photos
5.  Choice from 1, 2, 3 photos

What to do with 5 images for Assignment 3

1. Crop
2. Levels Adjustment Layer
3. Black and White Adjustment
4. Burn and dodge using either process explained in class (represented by screen shot on post below)
5. Save as PSD (LastName_FirstName-01TypePhotoShot.psd)

SUBMIT
• 5 images
• 2 jpg contactsheets