https://noroff.bravais.com/document/11771/preview

Part 1: Will be done 12. Jan when its not snowing. My camera cant handle snow.

Selecting the proper White Balance: (1 hour)
Take your camera outside during daylight and photograph the same scene using different white-balance settings. Move indoors and repeat the exercise with shooting in a tungsten-lighting environment. Finally, find a fluorescent light source and repeat this one more time. Pay close attention to how each setting affects your images’ overall color cast in different lighting environments and write down your findings.

Experimenting with Focus Modes: (1 hour)
Change your camera settings so that you are focusing using the Single-Point focus mode. Try using all of the different focus points to see how they work in focusing your scene. Then set your focus mode to AF-S and practice focusing on a stationary subject and then recomposing before actually taking the picture. Try doing this with subjects at varying distances. Lastly, change your focus mode from autofocus to manual focus and practice a little manual-focus photography. Get familiar with where the focus ring is and how to use it to achieve sharp images. Write down what you learned from the different focus modes.

Part 2:

Practical assignment (1-5 days)
Take five pictures every day for the next five days. The subjects of your photographs can include a series of different objects, people, and landscapes. The focus of this activity is to put into practice what you have learned so far about exposure and composition: Depth of Field, Motion Blur, High Key, Low Key, Pattern, Symmetry, Texture, Lines, Framing, Perspective, Space, Balance, and Colour. Apply the manual settings as explained. Submit your six best pictures at the end of the week, listing the following with each image:

• ISO
• Aperture
• Shutter speed

*MY PICTURES AT THE END ARE THE ONES I TOOK NOTES ON. please have mercy on my photo skills *

I was unlucky enough to see this task late in the day on a Tuesday. I came home from Sweden last Sunday and almost slept through Monday. Therefore I might have to take a few more pics on one day than the others. Maybe.

In my first set of photos, I took picture of an apartment block with apertures 1/50, 1/500, 1/1000, 1/2000, 1/2500, and then 1/4000. I took these pictures from my balcony on the 4th of January 2022 between 15:08 and 15:10. The original pictures were taken in RAW format but those could not get put in here, so I made them into JPEG. I think I like 1/1000 the best since it is the closest to how reality was.

I chose to put in my pictures from Vårdkasen in Härnösand in Sweden (27th of December 2021) for my Shutter speed task. I took picture of a snow canon when my pictures of a windmill didn´t work out as planned. The one with 1000 as the shutter speed is the most accurate one to reality. Is the number 1000 magical?

Okay now that I have had my fun showing off my lack of talent concerning camera settings I will do this task properly. From my understanding, I have to take pictures of anything I want five times a day. An important detail is to think about Depth of Field, Motion Blur, High Key, Low Key, Pattern, Symmetry, Texture, Lines, Framing, Perspective, Space, Balance, and Color…

My best photo on the 5th of January was 1/500, F13, and an ISO on 25600 when I took a picture of my sparkling water with a snowy balcony in the background. I noticed I really had to take down my Shutter speed to not make the picture too dark. Another dilemma was to have my aperture on F11 or F13 but I eventually decided that F13 was the best.

I liked that the details on the glass the bubbles, and the background were clear, even though the glass looks a bit scratched up from its years in service. The picture has depth. The glass is also not in the middle but slightly to the side with the glass lines lining up to things in the back. The next best picture is the one I took right before it but I don´t remember the details on its settings. I think I had F11 there though.

This next gallery is my “Answer” to this task. I am a bit late since I forgot to post on Sunday.

Lesson Learned:

• On Manual Mode on Sony a6000 things are set up this way at the bottom. Shutter speed, Aperture, and then ISO.
• Take notes on the settings I use when taking pictures, naming your picutures on the camera is not possible as far as I know.
• Be quick when looking at the screen after taking a picture, the camera won´t let you see it again 90% of the time.
• Zooming in can really help when trying to frame a photo.
• Using RAW format is just a waste of memory card space unless you are planning to use Photoshop.
• Plan out your photos way ahead of time, figure out when the sun goes down. There is not always light during winter time in Norway, rain can suddenly get rid of your snow etc.