11.19 Aperture and Short Depth of field experiment/application

Good morning, photojournalists,

Looking at the schedule I published yesterday, we're going to have to change a few things. I'm not going to have you watch the movie, etc.

I'll publish the new schedule later today.

As for your assignment for today, HALF of you'll take pictures illustrating shallow/short and deep/long depth of field using the APERTURE PRIORITY MODE. The other half of you will be in the classroom. THEN tomorrow we'll switch.

People with cameras today:
1st hour: Mckenna A, Ryan C, Triston D, Weston E, Avery Go, Audrey J, Mariah M, Sydnie N, Samantha P, Ellie P, Rachel S, Lauryn T, Megan W.

3rd hour: Brooke A, Lydia B, Caitlyn M, Kaeleigh C, Kayleigh D, Hanna E, Margaret G, Michaela K, Brennah O, Ashanti P, Mackenzie R, Meriah S, Greenly W


People with cameras tomorrow:
1st Hour: Megan B, Derek C, Cora D, Avery Gi, Jillian H, Joey M, Cody N, Haylee O, Diya P, Juliana S, Sierra V, Shaylinn Y

3rd hour: Travis A, Kolton B, Sophie C, Skylar D, Emma D, Olivia F, Bethany H, Evan L, Brinn P, Brooke R, Hadley S, Bailee T, Emily W

You'll do basically the same thing you did with your photos in shutter priority mode, but I'd like to see you employ a little more art in taking your photos.

SO, grab a camera, put it in aperture priority mode, see me for help in how to do this, and take photos in the hallway with short and long depth of field.

Need inspiration? Yes, yes you do.

Here are photos with a short depth of field:
Short Depth of Field Photos
Think of setting up pencils on a table or photos of a laptop or the statues in the LMC or anything that you think your peers would enjoy a closer view of.

Here are photos with a long depth of field:
Long Depth of Field Photos
Now, I now we don't have cliffs or anything like that here at North, but think about taking long photos down hallways or out a window or something.

You'll need to do the same thing you did with the shutter speed as far as at least one photo with a short depth of field, at least one with a long depth of field, post them on your blog WITH THE SETTINGS (see the blog from OCTOBER 17 for directions on how to find them in PhotoShop), and discuss how the setting affected the depth of field.

THIS IS DUE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND AT MIDNIGHT.

11.17 Canon Outside of Auto and Aperture

Happy Monday morning!

Let's go over, again, what the next few weeks will look like:

This week:
Monday, November 18 : This assignment
Tuesday, November 19: You're going out on your own to take aperture pictures SO BRING YOUR MEMORY CARD
Wednesday, November 20: Put the pictures from Tuesday on your blog
Thursday, November 21: Watch the video President's Photographer; if you need to download and such, do so.
Friday, November 22: Finish the video ALL OF YOUR PHOTOS FROM UP TO THIS POINT MUST BE ON THE SERVER WITH YOUR PAPER TURNED IN!

Monday, November 25: Paint with Light
Tuesday, November 26: Paint with Light
Wednesday, November 27-Friday, November 29: Thanksgiving Break

Monday, December 2: Put Paint with Light on blog
Tuesday, December 3: Make November Best of Folder
Wednesday, December 4: Go over November Best Of photos
Thursday, December 5-Tuesday, December 10: I'll be gone; Important Photojournalists project
Wednesday, December 11-Thursday, December 12: Present Project
Friday, December 13: Finish up any other presentations

Monday, December 16-Tuesday, December 17: Finish up any downloads left for semester
Wednesday, December 18: Finals for hours 2, 4, and 6
Thursday, December 19: FINALS!!

ALSO, PEOPLE! Some of you are in serious danger of not passing first semester all because you haven't gotten your events in.
Here are what's going on tomorrow. There's still room for two more people:

NOW FOR TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT:

Using the Canon Outside Of Auto website IN APERTURE PRIORITY MODE, take one photo with a short depth of field and one photo with a long depth of field.

Here's a screenshot of aperture priority mode. Make sure you've selected Aperture Priority Mode (Aperture Priority (Av)):

Screen shot each photo SHOWING THE SETTINGS and put it on your blog.

Then, for each photo, write a sentence illustrating that you understand the affect that aperture has on your depth of field. As in, "when the aperture setting is _______, that means it has a _______ aperture, which creates a _________ depth of field," etc.

WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH THAT do any downloading you need to do, go through your photos, etc.