In-Class Image Assignments 13-15

#13 Blindfolded: Seeing a space/place through photo-documentation. You will be blindfolded for 20 minutes. Take a photograph once at least every few seconds as you walk or move through space. Traverse with a partner. Your partner should speak as little as possible, unless you or your camera is headed for imminent danger. You might ask your partner to adjust shutter speed to get some images with blur due to movement and others that are sharp. Your partner should not give you verbal clues about where you are in physical space.

#14 HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photograph. Take two images of the same scene while your camera is secured to a tripod. The scene should be one with high dynamic range. High dynamic range refers to a framed scenario with very bright brights and very dark darks relative to one another. Think of a scene in which you cannot expose properly for two parts of the subject. For example, a frame that includes both the dark ground and bright sky or a frame that includes a darker inside space with a brighter window. One exposure should be made for the bright area and one for the dark area. This will probably result in under exposing and over exposing and your histogram will peak on one end and the other. The histogram should peak on the left when you are exposing for the sky or window and the histogram should peak on the right when you are exposing for the dark ground or inside space. We will use Photoshop to combine these images.

http://www.hdrsoft.com/

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/high-dynamic-range.htm

#15 Panorama photograph. Take at least three photographs of the same scene in which you rotate or move the camera to a new location for each shot. Keep your aperture and shutter speed values the same for each shot. Try to overlap your framing for each image by 30%. We will use photoshop to combine these images into a panorama.

David Hockney http://www.hockneypictures.com/photos/photos_collages_01.php

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/high/cubismphoto.htm

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/digital-panoramas.htm