SMART START
What is the Rule of Thirds?
THE BIG PICTURE
To complete your NEA, you need to add some original photography. After today's lesson you should be able to use a DSLR to take your photographs (before some post-production editing in Photoshop).
In today's lesson we will answer the following questions:
- What are the various shooting modes on a DSLR?
- What is aperture?
- What is ISO?
- What is shutter speed?
- What is the exposure triangle?
- How do we manipulate focus?
- How do you use a lightbox?
- What is the difference between a candid and a posed shot?
EXPLAIN & MODEL
PRACTISE
To practise these new skills, we will build a portfolio of photographs consisting of;
- A portrait with a deep depth of field (no blurred background)
- A portrait with a shallow depth of field (blurred background)
- A car
- A building
- A camera (using a lightbox)
- A landscape
REVIEW
We will assess our success by looking closely at our portfolio, paying particlar attention to framing, exposure & focus.
HOMEWORK
Take a school DSLR (if you need one) and shoot the photos you need for your NEA. In next week's lesson we will manipulate and refine our photos in Photoshop before embedding them into our NEA products.
