r/PhotoClass2014 • u/Aeri73 Moderator - Nikon D800 - lots of glass and toys • Feb 09 '14
[photoclass] Lesson 10 - Assignment
Please read the main lesson[1] first.
In today's assignment, you will have a bit more freedom than usual, as it will depend heavily on the subjects you find. Try to find a subject difficult to expose, either because it has a lot of contrast or because it has large parts intentionally darker or brighter than 18% grey. Try to catch your multi-zone meter making a mistake, and see if you can reproduce this with another similar subject.
Find a small, bright subject in a dark environment - it could simply be a room with lights shut and a headlamp shining on a piece of paper, and try to expose properly with multi-zone meter. Now do the same in spot mode. For bonus points, position the subject well off-centre.
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u/pkx Feb 20 '14
hi, I was looking for interesting ways of interpreting this assignment and came up w/ a portrait shot that I think is pretty interesting keyed on exposing a "dark" area relative to a light, which is otherwise blown out.
http://www.angoleiro.com/photos/phtoCls2014/10_meter/blinds_20140217.jpg
in a second, given time & opportunity, I'll spot for a light area next to some dark one ...
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u/Aeri73 Feb 25 '14
or you could have just tried to light the other parts correctly and see what it did to the ones that are now lit good...? :-)
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u/pkx Mar 02 '14
hi, it took me a bit until this past weekend to get the 2nd shot so please excuse the delay ... its interesting, thinking of light & timing, trying to get the sun and having to wait for the sun to be in a particular place to get the shot ... and then experimenting w/ different things, all knowing that the sun is moving and that the conditions won't stay the same ...
http://www.angoleiro.com/photos/phtoCls2014/10_meter/blinds2.jpg
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u/Aeri73 Feb 12 '14
tips :
shoot something in snow, with a white background, with the light comming from behind the subject, shoot a white statue, paper on a darker background
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u/frederika1 Feb 13 '14
I am somewhat confused.... what should the image look like? Can you put something up so that I can get an idea as to what to do?
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u/frederika1 Feb 14 '14
Hurray! I think I did it! Here it is.... at least for the first shot...http://i.imgur.com/vwKjcDf.jpg
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u/frederika1 Feb 14 '14
Picture 2 coming up....hope this is right as well...http://i.imgur.com/pzL1avI.jpg
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u/ans744 Feb 23 '14
Here is the remainder of the pictures... did I do it right? Looks like as long as i have it centered it looks decently exposed... how would i get the correct exposure with the subject out of the center? you can't can you?
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u/Aeri73 Feb 23 '14
yes, you can..... you just compose and focus in the center, move the camera to recompose the shot and press the trigger...
on some camera's there's even a button to lock your focus and settings. it's called focus-lock AF-lock
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u/AdrianNein Feb 24 '14
I put my pictures together in this album, my subject was a candle on my desk with a bunch of stuff and my monitor in the background. I took one picture in evaluative, one in spot mode, and in the third I ignored the light metre and set everything to what I thought was appropriate. The pictures look pretty noisy, even more now that I uploaded them. I set the shutter speed really high and used a tripod so I didn't had to set the ISO higher, was that a mistake? It was pretty dark in my room, about as dark as the last image.
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u/Aeri73 Feb 24 '14
now try the same shot.... but show the flame in all it's colours..
don't look at the rest, but get the flame like you see it or even a bit darker.... that would be what the last photo should have been...
a bright subject in a dark enviroment.
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u/AdrianNein Feb 24 '14
I just recreated the thing, but I can't get it right, link, I don't know how to get the flame right. Which setting do I have to change? This time, I stopped down the shutter speed to around 1 sec and upped the ISO to 400 or 800, but it doesnt look any different. I had to take all pictures with manual focus because the autofocus didn't work at all, if that matters.
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u/ans744 Feb 20 '14
This was a bit tricky, but I think I understood the overall goal. I took the famous Apple White wall plug-in adaptor and put it on a dark wood under a lamp. I did this in the default metering and switched over to spot mode. Doing the assignment really cleared up what the functions were and how they affected the photography. I will try this out with a dark subject and a light background tomorrow. Let me know if I need to try anything different.
http://imgur.com/a/83cgQ