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A Level Photography

A Level Photography2 Modules in the second yearART3 60 % of A2 120 MarksART4 40% of A2 100 MarksRemember the 2 modules make up 50% of you’re A Level

What are the differences to last year?

-Amount of time you spend with the camera-Greater specialism in a particular medium/concept-The level of Technical skills, marking is harsher-More detailed research, analysis and reflection

-The same

-The format of the year-Importance of Concept

A Level Photography

What Equipment do you need?

-Your own SD card-Your own Memory stick-Your own DSLR Camera, or quick and prompt bookings of our DSLRcameras-Sketch Book-Scissors and glue-Pens and Notepad

A Level Photography

A2 (ART3) at a glance

Personal Investigation

A2 (ART3) at a glanceInduction tasks

The relationship between Aperture, I.S.O and shutter speed

Night Photography

Studio or Ambient lighting?

Deadlines

A2 (ART3) at a glance1.The relationship between I.S.O, Aperture and Shutter speed (induction project)

A2 (ART3) at a glance2. Night Photography – Light painting

A2 (ART3) at a glanceNight Photography – Light painting

A2 (ART3) at a glanceNight Photography – Light painting

A2 (ART3) at a glanceNight Photography – Light painting

A2 (ART3) at a glance1.Night Photography – Home studio

A2 (ART3) at a glanceNight Photography – Motion

A2 (ART3) at a glanceNight Photography – Motion

A2 (ART3) at a glanceAmbient or Studio lighting?

A2 (ART3) at a glanceAmbient or Studio lighting?

A2 (ART3) at a glanceAmbient or Studio lighting?

A2 (ART3) at a glance

Personal Investigation

brainstorms

A2 (ART3) at a glance

Research 1 and 2Two essays on photographic bodies of work which link to your proposed project idea.

The essay analyses and discusses;

1.Conceptual practice2.Genre3.Photographic and lighting technique4. How it links and influences your idea

A –grade artist research 1 and 2 tends to be around 2000 words each

Visual influencesA2 (ART3) at a glance

Visual influencesA2 (ART3) at a glance

Your projects

Shooting Analysing Refecting

Documenting targets

Shooting more

A2 (ART3) at a glance

Quiz, what have you remembered from AS?Key techniques and terms

What compositional rule/s has been used here?

What lighting technique has been used?

What type of shutter speed has been used here? give an example of the length.

This image has a shallow ________ of ___________Secondly ive an example of the aperture setting (F number) which would ensure this happened to this image.

You could achieve this tinted blue look on your images by changing your camera to the wrong _____ ______ on purpose.

What setting on my camera would I turn to a high level if I wanted to create Noise and Grain on an image? Can you give a digit example?

Sports photographers would need to use a ______ lens to ensure they could capture all the action at an event. When using this lens it is advisable to accompany it with a ______ or the image would be _______

If I want everything in my image to be in focus I must use what type of F/stop?

This makes the lens open Widely/Narrowly?

You have just captured this image. 1.Whats wrong with it? (Photographic language)2. You need to adjust what, to capture it correctly?

I have set my Aperture to F/22 and shot this image, why does it look the way it does?

How do we know this image has been taken on a Tripod?

The shutter speed has to be quick to avoid motion blur, what else could I adjust on my camera to make sure I get enough light?

When taking photographs within the home lit by regular house hold lights it is important to set your white balance to what, to ensure you do not gain an orange tint?

Is your camera or lighting condition more important in photography?

This images has a shallow depth of field but everything is in focus? How come?

•  1.Only stick in technically perfect images for your final pieces

• Rules 1a.no under or over exposed•     1b. Ensure your aperture setting reflects the correct depth of field•     1c. Nice framing/composition

• 2. Mistaken images can be stuck in to show process and workings out but only if•  you have perfect images afterwards

• 3. Discuss what you had to do to shutter speed and I.S.O as a result of shooting on a•  particular aperture setting. (Don’t forget tripod) try and write as a commentary, almost a self reflective guide/diary.

• 4. Also discuss framing, composition, portrait genre objectives you have applied or not?

• Objective• Within this reflection demonstrate an ability to express clear understandings of the relationship between ;• Aperture, Shutter Speed and I.S.O

I.S.O

ApertureShutter Speed

I.S.O

• In traditional (film) photography ISO was the indication of how sensitive a film was to light.

• The lower the number the lower the sensitivity of the film and the finer the grain in the shots you’re taking.

• 100, 200, 400, 800

Today in Digital• ISO measures the sensitivity of the image sensor• Higher ISO settings are generally used in darker

situations to get faster shutter speeds

So If the standard I.S.O is 100 when might we want to increase it?

Philip Lorca Dicorcia uses high I.S.O

100 ISO 3200 ISO

100 ISO is generally accepted as ‘normal’ and will give you lovely crisp shots (little noise/grain). 3200/6400 we get a higher sensitivity, more light hits the film. But we also get more grain and noise.

Shutter Speed

• What is a cameras Shutter?

Shutter Speed

• The amount of time that the shutter is open’.In digital photography shutter speed is the length of time that your image sensor ’sees’ the scene you’re attempting to capture.It used to be how long the light hit the film

Slow Shutter SpeedsS.L.R cameras allow the user the chance to use very slow shutter speeds that are not fractions of seconds but actual seconds (for example 1 second, 10 seconds, 30 seconds etc). These are used in very low light situations, when you’re going after a specific effect or look.

Quick Shutter Speeds

If there is movement in your scene you have the choice of either freezing the movement (so it looks still) or letting the moving object intentionally blur (giving it a sense of movement)

Shutter Speed has effects on other things!

• If we have a fast shutter speed, what will we need to adjust our I.S.O to? higher number (more sensitive to light) or lower (less sensitive to light)

Aperture

• Aperture is how wide the lens' iris opens. The wider it opens the more light gets in. It's exactly the same thing as the iris of your eye which opens more as the light gets darker

Its not the speed its how widely it opens

Big apertures have smaller numbers, like f/4. Smaller apertures have bigger numbers like f/16. These are fractions

Big apertures like f/4 will tend to have just one thing in focus. A smaller aperture like f/16 will tend to have everything in focus. How much is in focus is called depth of field.

Which image has a big aperture and which has a small?