TASK ONE: DIGITAL CAMERA CHALLANGE

You will make 36 images total. Each item number has two considerations:A CONCEPTUAL PROMPT (in bold) that gives you a subject matter, and a TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT (underneath, in italics).

The conceptual prompts are open to your interpretation. There’s no right answer, only that you think inventively and compose the image thoughtfully. Use your camera’s manual to learn how to achieve any technical prompts that are unknown to you.

CAMERA FUNCTION MODES

1. Yourself as you were yesterday (using the self-timer function – show yourself in the frame)

2. The next best thing (take photo on the highest quality setting in jpeg)

3. The next best thing (take the photo on the lowest quality setting in jpeg)

4. The next best thing (take the photo in the RAW format. NOTE: all digital SLR cameras will have this function, and some point- and-shoot cameras; you may need to be in a manual mode to access the RAW feature)

5. A photographic experience (Set the camera’s focus point to the center location.)

6. A photographic experience (set the camera’s focus point to an off-center location.)

7. The gory details (with the camera set to the lowest possible ISO)

8. The gory details (with the camera set to the highest possible ISO)

9. Proprioception (take a photograph of something that is as close as possible to the lense whilst still being fully in focus.)

10.Pure energy (using the camera’s flash.)

11.A superhero of your own creation (Take the photo in fluorescent lighting with the camera’s lighting mode set to fluorescent.)

12.A superhero of your own creation (Take the photo in fluorescent lighting with the camera’s lighting mode set to daylight)

13.The monster (Take the photo in daylight with the camera’s lighting mode set to daylight.)

14.The monster... (Take the photo in daylight with the camera’s lighting mode set to tungsten.)

15.Boring! (Take the photo in tungsten lighting with the camera’s lighting mode set to tungsten.)

16.Boring! (Take the photo in tungsten lighting with the camera’s lighting mode set to daylight.)

17 – 19. Trippy (Three shots of the same object from three different distances. Use the zoom to make the object the same size within the frame)

20 – 22. A theatre of your own making (Three shots of the same scene, from the same distance, but framing the subject differently each time, i.e., showing differing amounts of the subject, different parts of the subject, shifting the relationship with the subject and the frame.)

23. Hyper-real landscape (Take the photo with shallow depth of field. Scene should be minimum 3 meters in distance.]

24. Hyper-real landscape – version #2 (Take the same photo as in #26, but with great depth of field.)

25. Moving subject (Show the moving subject as blurred.)

26.same Moving subject as in #25 (Show the moving subject as frozen and the background as frozen [not blurred).

27.same Moving subject as in #25 and #26 (Show the moving subject as frozen but the background as blurred.)

28.Cold Hope (For this picture, purposely shoot at least two stops under what the internal light meter says is the correct exposure. Use this choice of exposure to reveal something or ad drama to the picture.)

29.The truth will out (For this picture, purposely shoot at least two stops over what the internal light meter says is the correct exposure. Use this choice of exposure to reveal something or add drama to the picture.)

30 – 36 An avalanche (take 6 images using the camera’s sequential/continuous function in which it shoots several exposures in succession)

ON YOUR CONTACT SHEET, LABEL ALL PHOTOS WITH THE CORRESPONDING NUMBER and PROMPT. EXAMPLE: “1_yourself_yesterday_self-timer”. MAKE SURE THAT YOUR IMAGES ARE IN THE CORRECT NUMERICAL ORDER ON YOUR CONTACT SHEET.

PROVIDE YOUR NAME & INFO ABOUT YOUR CAMERA (EX: “DSLR – NIKON D800” OR “COMPACT CAMERA – SONY A7S”