experiment assign due 9/30

The assignment this week

1. Look at the powerpoint on the principles of composition for you to review before working on your assignment:
http://www.janemarsching.com/massart/ppts/2form.htm

2. Make sure your camera as an option for aperture priority and shutter priority or a manual setting. Choose an ISO 200 or less. Make sure your white balance is set to auto. Figure out how to use the manual focus setting on your camera. For a refresher download the powerpoint that Stephanie and I showed you in class today: http://sf.massart.edu/tech-recitations/vl1-handouts and download the files under the Digital Photography heading.
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Take one of the cameras we learned on in class from our SF cage. The cameras cannot be taken out overnight but are available during evening lab hours. Also, AVMS (3rd floor Tower) has other models of cameras that you can take out for 2-3 days. Please be clear that sometimes all their cameras are sometimes checked out, so leave time to account for this just in case.

3. Choose one subject to stick with for all your experimentation this week. This can be anything you like: a person, something from nature, a building, a piece of garbage, a book, whatever... The narrower the subject you choose, the more you are forced to great experimentation with your approach to the principles of composition and the technical use of your camera (aperture, shutter, etc.)

4. Shoot this object 100 times. Experiment with depth of field and motion choices. Shoot 50 images of one extreme of your principle of composition, shoot 50 of of the other extreme of composition.

5. choose the 6-10 images that you feel are the most successful. Resize them in Photoshop to 3" x 5" @ 72 dpi .jpgs

6. Create your own blog in blogger. Email me the URL to jmarsching@massart.edu

7. Post your images to your blog

8. Write a few short sentences about why you chose your subject, how you worked with your compositional element.