INTRO TO PHOTOGRAPHY

CLASS 1

Intro to Photography – Class 1

Homework
1. Practice using aperture priority mode and working with the exposure triangle.
    – Know how to change your f-stop and be aware of how that affects your shutter speed. Check the numbers in the lower left of the   viewfinder.
    – Know how to change your ISO setting. In normal light, you can stick with 100-800. Adjust it and/or your f-stop as necessary to ensure the shutter speed you want. Try to keep around 1/125th sec., but don’t go below 1/30th.
2.Review your manual’s sections on focusing. Pay special attention to how to change your focus mode and how to change your focus point.
2. Rule of Thirds. Take pictures using rule of thirds.
3. Work the Scene. Find a scene or subject and shoot it several different  ways. Send/bring about three of those images to class.
4. Framing. 1) Find a subject and use other elements in the scene to frame it, and 2) use the viewfinder as a picture frame (check the edges and make sure you want those things in

Upload up to 10 pictures to https://www.dropbox.com/request/s0KUoRQnFEn4PcxllzLG.