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Take photos to illustrate these terms:
Answer the questions that follow the assignments
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Using a camera with manual settings or the online camera in the website, canonoutsideofauto.ca, take photos to illustrate these ideas:*
1. Shallow depth of field using your widest aperture to throw the background out of focus. Question: What aperture did you use and how did it affect your photo’s background?
5. Medium shutter speed (1/125 to 1/250 of a second) to partially stop action. Question: What shutter speed did you use and how well did you stop the action in the photo?
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2. Some depth of field using a mid-range aperture to cause the background to be slightly out of focus. Question: What aperture did you use and how did it affect your photo’s background? Answer: 3. Greater depth of field using a tight aperture to cause the foreground and background to be in focus. Question: What aperture did you use and how did it affect your photo’s background? Answer: 4. Fast shutter speed (1/500 or higher) to stop action. Question: What shutter speed did you use and how well did you stop the action in the photo? Answer:
6. Slow shutter speed (1/30 to 1/60 of a second) to allow more light into the camera. You should consider using a tripod for this shot, if it’s available. Question: What shutter speed did you use and how did your photo turn out? Answer: 7. Low light photo using an ISO setting of 1600 or greater.* Question: What ISO setting did you use and how did it affect your photo? Answer:
8. Bright light photo using an ISO between 24 and 100.* Question: What ISO setting did you use and how did it affect your photo? Answer:
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9. Cloudy or overcast daytime photo using an ISO of 200 and another using an ISO of 800.* Question: How did each ISO affect your camera settings and photos? Answer: 10. Dim light photo using an ISO setting between 500 and 1200.* Question: What ISO setting did you use and how did it affect your photo? Answer: Additional questions: 11. The lens openings/f-stops on my manual camera range from these settings: Answer: Largest opening: Smallest opening: 12. The shutter speed on my manual camera ranges from these settings: Answer: Slowest speed: Fastest speed:
*If you are using the camera on the canonoutsideofauto.ca, experiment with the settings in each question and describe how they affect the sample photo.
Learn your
Camera’s capabilities
Exercise1: Illustrating F-stop, shutter speed and ISO Using a camera with manual settings or the online camera in canonoutsideofauto.ca, take the photos described on the left side of this page. Record your f-stop, shutter speed and ISO settings and explain how they affected your photos.
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