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Assignments:

Indoor pictures to take.

  1.  Go to different places in your house that have different amounts of light.  Set exposure using the indoor light poster. Do this as many times as you can. Remember to keep your aperture as wide as you can, your shutter speed as slow as you can handhold it, and adjust your iso by raising it or lowering it to set exposure.

  2. Line up some figurines (or other objects) in row and see how many of them you can get in focus with your aperture wide open. Now, close down your aperture just a bit. To close it down make sure that the number is getting bigger. Do this several times. Each time taking a picture so that you can see what aperture does to focus. Remember when you change the aperture you will need to also adjust the iso so that the camera can expose the image correctly.

  3. Set your shutter speed to 1/100, you aperture should be wide open, and then raise or lower your iso to get exposure. Next, ask someone to wave their arms around in front of the camera. Take a picture. Are the arms blurry? Yes. Then raise your shutter speed to 1/200. Still blurry? Try again. This time at 1/500 of a second. If still blurry, try an even faster shutter speed.

 

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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.