1. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls

2. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Shutter speeds
F-stops

3. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
ISO
Shutter Speed
Aperture

4. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
ISO is the sensitivity to light.
In a digital camera, this is an ISO setting.
In a film camera this is the film “speed”
For your digital camera, we “measure” this sensitivity in terms of film speed

5. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
ISO is the sensitivity to light.
An ISO of 800 or 400 is a “high” film speed that allows you to take photos in lower light situations.
An ISO of 200, 100 or less is a “slower” film speed that can be used in situations with more light.

6. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Light entering a camera is controlled in two other ways:
Shutter speed
Aperture

7. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Shutter speed - the “shutter” allows light to enter the camera for a set amount of time.
Aperture - the aperture controls “how much” light is allowed to enter.

8. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Shutter speed
Usually measured as fractions: 1/250th of a second; displayed as 250 on the camera
The higher the number, the less time the shutter is open and the less light enters the camera

9. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Aperture
F-stops
The lens opening
The more narrow the opening (F22), the less light enters the camera
The wider the opening (F1.8), the more light enters the camera

10. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Stopping action
Blurring motion
Creating deep or shallow depth of field

11. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Stopping action
Choose a fast shutter speed
1/1000; 1/500
Compensate by using a wide aperture
f2; f2.8

12. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Stopping action

13. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Stopping action

14. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Stopping action

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Blurring motion
Choose a slow shutter speed
1/60; 1/30
Compensate by using a narrow aperture
f22; f16

16. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Blurring motion

17. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Blurring motion

18. Panning – showing motion in background of moving objects.
Put camera in manual mode
Put focus in continuous mode; keep shutter pressed halfway down
Set shutter speed low; 1/30th of a second to start
Smooth motion is key
PRACTICE
Depress shutter while moving smoothly right, left, up or down

21. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Depth of Field is how much of the composition is in focus in front of and behind the object you are “focused on.”

22. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Depth of Field

23. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Depth of Field

24. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Depth of Field

25. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Depth of Field

26. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Depth of Field

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Deep depth of field (DOF)
Small aperture (f22, f16) and compensate by using a slower shutter speed
Shallow depth of field
Wide aperture (f2, f2.8) and compensate by using a faster shutter speed

30. Visual Communication Creative Camera Controls
Depth of Field is controlled by:
Lens aperture
Narrow aperture, deep DOF; wide aperture, shallow DOF
Distance to subject
The closer you are to the subject, the shallower the depth of field; the farther away you are, the deeper the DOF
Focal length of lens
Wide angle lens, deeper DOF; telephoto, shallower DOF

31. Photo guidelines For class and for TODAY Photos MUST be 300 dpi
Photos MUST be tif format
Photos MUST be CMYK color space

32. In PhotoShop you MUST:
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