A Week Later: Photography Class #2
What a busy week it’s been. I’m teaching LIB100 twice a week, this time with an assistant , but not a co-instructor. I didn’t realize the implications in prep time, but I am finally adjusting. Tons of other work obligations are percolating – all interesting, all challenging and all with due dates sooner than I wish.
So the issue becomes how to stay sane and, at the same time, nurture a life-long personal goal? That was my reasoning behind registering to take a 6 week photography class. I loved the first week, as I wrote in my last posting. But the assignment actually added the tiniest piece of stress into the mix as we had to turn in 6 images, 5 of them focusing on teaching us new skills. I managed to get 4 of the 5 completed. Only the charge to take a panning image defeated me, I just couldn’t get it right. I felt better when I Googled to find tips and found that even skilled photographers might capture 10 good images out of 30 attempts.
Tonight, after everyone shared their images from last week’s assignment (for mine, look at the links on the previous post). We were invited to leave our images so that Will, our instructor, can critique them for us. I look forward to his feedback.
Will talked at length about the Exposure Triangle, where ISO, Aperture and Shutter Speed, comprise the corners of the triangle. They work in balance with each other so that the perfect image comes when you find the “zero” point in the triangle. I can tell it will take awhile to learn how to accomplish this in the manual mode when I’ve been depending on the camera’s brain to do it for me up until now!
Then we moved onto talking about composition, and here I felt a bit more in my realm of comfort, thanks to the workshop Ken Bennett gave ZSR staff a few years ago.
Our assignment for next week is to select 3 different objects and shoot them each 5 different ways. Included in the different ways will be trying to find a camera angle on the object that Will has never seen, and to get one shot that portrays the object the best. We are to select our best object series and take those in next week. Should be interesting!
