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Art 254 Intro to Digital Photography

Assignment 1: First Pictures


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Seeing Like a Camera


Pictures translate the world you see. Your photographs leave behind the world outside their
edges and make the parts that are recorded flatter and, usually, much smaller. Black-and-white
photographs are even more abstract than those in color. No photograph is the same thing as
what you photographed; it refers somehow to the original scene but has its own life and
meaning. The only way to understand and master this translation is to continue the work cycle:
make a photograph, look at it, think about it, and make another.

One of the first choices to make with a photograph is what to include and what to leave out.
The image frame, the rectangle you see when you look through the viewfinder or at your
mobile phone screen, shows only a section of the much wider scene that is in front of you. The
frame crops the scene – or rather, you crop it – when you decide where to point the camera,
how close to get to your subject, and from what angle to shoot.

You will need…


 Digital Camera (DSLR, Mirrorless or Mobile Device with a camera)
 Adobe Lightroom and Lightroom Mobile App if using a Mobile device

Procedure
Read “A Quick Start” on pages 14-18 in Digital Photography: A Basic Manual. Those pages walk
you through the first steps of setting up your camera, focusing an image sharply, and making
your first pictures. If you are using the Adobe Lightroom Mobile App’s Camera, go to the
following link for information on using the camera:
 Capture photos with Lightroom for mobile (iOS)
 Capture photos with Lightroom for mobile (Android)

Expose a minimum of 35 pictures using the edges of the picture, and the frame in various
ways. As you look through the viewfinder or at your phone’s screen, use the frame to surround
and shape the image in different ways.
Things to try:

 Put the main subject off to one side or one corner of the frame. Can you balance the
image so that the scene doesn’t feel lopsided? Try putting the horizon line at the very
top or very bottom of the frame or try tilting it intentionally. Try keeping the main
subject away from the center of the frame. Keep the viewer’s interest directed toward
the edges.

 Make a portrait of someone without his or her head in the picture. Try to have the
image express something of the subject’s personality.

 Have someone looking at or reaching for something outside the frame. Have them close
to the side of the frame they are looking or reaching toward. Then have them far from
that side, at the other side of the frame.

 Photograph something in its entirety: a person, a shopfront, an animal, an overstuffed


chair – whatever gets your attention. Move in a little closer. How will you use the frame
to cut into the object? Do you crop the object evenly all around? More on one side than
the other? Move even closer. Closer. Photojournalist Robert Capa said, “If your pictures
aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.” Do you agree?

Things to think about


Which pictures worked best? Why? Were some different from what you expected to get? Did
some of your camera’s operations cause confusion? It may help to read your camera manual or
watch YouTube videos on your specific camera. You may also want to ask your instructor or
someone familiar with your camera for help.

Submit your work


After you have reviewed the Export Photos from Lightroom document in module 1, create an
album in Lightroom and title it Assignment 1 First Pictures. Add your four best photographs
taken for this assignment to the album. Following the instructions from the Export Photos from
Lightroom document, upload your four photos to Brightspace by the due date and time on the
course schedule.

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