Photo Assignments
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Our Photo Assignments are divided by topic. Follow the Table of Contents:
Making Flowing Water Turn to Silk
Create Special Effects from the Way Your Camera Perceives Light
Object Shapes Suggesting A, B and C Letter Shapes
Creative Camera Controls Practice and Photo Assignments
Assignment: Making Flowing Water Turn to Silk
These are very popular shots but to get the flowing water looking like flowing velvet, you need to shoot in low light:
At dusk or dawn
In fog or in winter
When the sun is low
In a shady spot
Then...
1. Find a place by a body of moving water
2. Frame your photograph - set your camera on a tripod and compose the image.
3. Set your camera to shutter priority mode.
4. Set your camera to a slow shutter speed - say, 1/60 of a second.
5. Set your camera's timer so that the camera doesn't shake when you try to push the shutter button.
6. Release your shutter and wait for the camera to take a picture.
7. Reset your camera to a slower shutter speed - say, 1/30 of a second.
8. Repeat Steps 4 through 6, using a slower shutter speed each time, until the flowing water looks like velvet.
Have fun and enjoy...
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Assignment: Create Special Effects from the Way Your Camera Perceives Light
To create a special effect from how your camera perceives light, press the shutter halfway down in one place and move to another place to shoot a picture, in the following way:
1. Set your camera to automatic mode.
2. Turn off the flash.
3. Sit by a window.
4. Point your camera out the window so that your entire frame is in daylight.
5. Press the shutter release halfway down.
6. Point the camera inside the room to where there is some colour or a little light (less than what was out the window).
7. Press the shutter button all the way down.
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Shape, Pattern and Texture Photo Assignments
Assignment: Object Shapes Suggesting A, B and C Letter Shapes
Go and photograph objects or parts
of objects
that look like or suggest the letters A, B and C.
Make sure that the shapes of
your objects suggest the letter shapes and
where possible use contrast (in color, texture,
lighting or tone) to make the letter shape
obvious in your picture.
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