Thursday, September 10, 2009

Copying/Meter Testing

The purpose of the meter testing was to take a picture of a white piece of wallpaper with a stamped pattern in it and make the paper appear white while maintaining as much detail as possible.  First I started by setting my camera to f/11 @ 1/45.  For each frame I stepped the aperture down until I reached f/4.  This is the lowest aperture setting for the lens I was using.  It is a 28-70mm Sigma.  For the meter testing all frames were taken a 57.0 mm. 

The tungsten and daylight exploration portion of the assignment was to go out and shoot 30 frames under different white balances.  I shot some frames at the Panera Bread Co. in downtown Columbia.  I set my camera to the tungsten setting and started shooting.  Even though it was a little dark inside the combination of tungsten light and daylight from windows made a soft environment for the camera.  I did not use any of these photos for the assignment but it was nice learning and observing the light.  Over Labor Day weekend I visited a reptile and exotic animal park in Missouri near Meramec Caverns.  I took pictures of lizards snakes lions and tigers. For the Daylight photo requirement I choose a picture of a dog inside a jail cell at the reptile park.  The dog was just inside the door getting mostly daylight and some tungsten light.  For the Tungsten photo I used a picture of my friend and my dog at my house.  There are four different kinds of light falling on the subject daylight from the windows, Tungsten light, neon light from a Chicago Blackhawks neon and light from a flat panel TV.  All these light sources give their own highlights and shadows that make an interesting photo.

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