Baum School Five Week Digital Photography Schedule

Weekly Assignments

Week 1- Discuss Aperture and Shutter Speed.

Outdoor Exercise: Aperture and Shutter speed 

Computer Lab Exercise: Melon head Exercise in Photoshop to teach Selection Tools

Homework- Photography Alphabet.


Description-
Apply what you learned about shutters peed and Aperture and now practice a visualization exercise with your camera in hand. Try to find letters in your surrounding. Use the architecture, nature, gardens, fences, car parts, get close, get far away to change your vantage point and see how many letters you can find.

Click here to see some examples below:
Link 1
Link 2

Week 2- Discuss White Balance and Color Tempurature.

Computer Lab

Upload alphabet photos onto your desktops.

1. Create folders on your desktop

ALWAYS SAVE BACKUP WORK ON YOUR OWN DEVICE!
     2. Discuss and demonstrate the use of clipping masks in photoshop.

Outdoor Exercise: Color temperature 

We will discuss the various color tempurature settings on your camera. Then we will go into various lighting conditions to see how they can be used.

  Homework: Review sheet about Aperture and Shutter speed and ISO.

Photography Homework: Composition

This week lets apply the following rules to our pictures.

• Rule of thirds

  

• Rule of odds

  

•  Horizon line and vanishing point