What a beautiful evening, it was great to get out and about - to put theory into practice outside the confines of the classroom.
This evening we explored exposure using the Fully Automatic setting. On this setting the camera essentially works everything out for you, however as you found there are certain things you can do to affect the brightness of your image.
Most/all cameras (including film) have an inbuilt light meter that measures how bright the scene you aim your lens at. By default it takes a number of measurements within your view finder and makes an average reading that will present as much detail in your image as possible, but being selective about the reading you take can offer you a variety of results. For example, taking a reading for a light area in or near you frame of view by pressing the shutter half way and holding it down to recompose, then firing the shutter darkens the image by deepening the shadow areas.
This technique has a number of uses, it can make your image/s more graphic, change the mood of the image and therefore the meaning and also introduce detail into areas of your image that didn’t have them before. Shooting a landscape for example may result in the sky being washed out due to the contrast between the ground and the sky, but by altering your light reading may re-balance that exposure and introduce detail in the form of clouds.
For sake of simplicity we used the Auto setting but in future sessions will use exposure settings that offer more control.
As I mentioned the course structure and content has yet to take shape, as I have indicated the course is fairly flexible and can respond to your individual needs, the following areas may be something that could be introduced along the way or inform the structure of the course, we could...
Investigate different themes such as, environment, structures, relationships, time and what they could represent.
Explore different specialist fields such as, Documentary, Portraiture, Street, Architecture, Still Life and Landscape, the aesthetical and technical needs they require.
Publishing such as, creating a Photo Book, exhibiting and taking part in Social Networking sites such as, Flickr, Blogger and Facebook.
Selling your Work
Image manipulation from simple enhancing techniques to simple art work outcomes such as collage
Specialist Equipment including lenses, tripods, to what memory card to buy and where to buy it
Presenting your work such as mounting and framing
Exploring different lighting situations and Macro were a few of the suggestions made, fell free to make any suggestions.
Look forward to connecting with you virtually or in person in a couple of weeks.
Photograph by Danielle (I hope you don’t mind me using it I thought it did a good job of representing the evenings activity!)
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