Continue still and exposure practice, also thinking about composition. Take several photos, staying in manual mode, and fixing the ISO while trying to choose and vary the aperture and shutter time to place scene values where you want them in each photo. Take some indoors and some outdoors.

  1. Try under and overexposing some, while also trying to come up with different settings of aperture, shutter, and perhaps ISO that keep the same levels of exposure. What happens if you try to correct these in an application such as Photoshop?
  2. Try fixing the ISO at 800, the shutter at 1/50 sec, and then use only the aperture for exposure, noting how the photos might be different.
  3. Expose an image with a dynamic range past the latitude of the camera in 3 different ways as closely to each other as possible but using different combinations of aperture, shutter, and ISO.
  4. Does changing the focal length on the zoom lens (assuming using one of the Fuji XE-1 cameras with 16-50mm zoom lens) affect the exposure in any way?  Does it affect the aperture?
  5. With one or more photos, label in Photoshop or other image editor Zones 0-10 for some major parts of the image, using Adam’s Zone System.
  6. Can you “place” a non-black/non-white background behind a person at “black”, “middle gray”, and “white” while having the person “normally exposed” (about 1 EV above middle-gray, give or take 0.5-1 EV depending on skin tone).
  7. Photograph an indoor scene with a person and also window showing the outdoor, daylight environment in the same frame. Try a variety of exposures and note effects and choices.
  8. Produce one or more aesthetically chosen and designed images where exposure decision(s) are critical to obtaining the desired effect of the planned image.
  9. Recreate a frame from Out of the Past.

Aside from the few under/over exposure corrections mentioned above, work to get the best images you can achieve “straight out of camera.” Keep in mind the check -, check, check + scale and what you might do to go beyond the basic expectations.

Due Thursday after Labor Day, to discuss in class.