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Assignment: Indoor Photography Practice

Part 1: Indoor Exposure Practice

  1. Go to different places inside your house that have different amounts of light.

  2. At each location:

    • Set your exposure using the indoor light chart

    • Keep your aperture as wide open as possible (smallest f-number).

    • Use the slowest shutter speed you can hand-hold without camera shake.

    • Adjust your ISO up or down to correctly expose the image.

  3. Take a photo in each lighting situation.

  4. Repeat this process as many times as you can in different rooms or lighting conditions.

Part 2: Aperture and Depth of Field

  1. Line up several figurines or objects in a row.

  2. With your aperture wide open, focus on the front object and take a photo.

  3. Notice how many objects are in focus.

  4. Now close down your aperture slightly (use a larger f-number).

  5. Adjust your ISO as needed to keep the exposure correct.

  6. Take another photo.

  7. Repeat this several times, closing the aperture a little more each time.

  8. Compare the images to see how aperture affects depth of field (focus).

Part 3: Shutter Speed and Motion

  1. Set your:

    • Shutter speed: 1/100

    • Aperture: Wide open

  2. Adjust your ISO until the image is properly exposed.

  3. Ask someone to wave their arms in front of the camera.

  4. Take a photo.

    • Are the arms blurry? (Yes)

  5. Increase your shutter speed to 1/200 and take another photo.

  6. Still blurry? Try 1/500.

  7. If motion blur still appears, try an even faster shutter speed.

  8. Observe how increasing shutter speed affects motion blur.

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Outdoor pictures:

  1. Being outdoors in lots of light changes everything. Try playing around with aperture.  What is the difference between a tree at 3.8 aperture vs. 16 aperture. 

  2. Take pictures in the morning, noon time, and then in late evening. Notice the different settings you need to expose your image correctly.

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