AIMs
June 14, 2006
Aims are points of interest or subjects of things to learn about. You should start at the top and work your way down.
1. Your Camera
A. Shutter Speed
B. Aperature
C. White Balance
D. ISO
E. Functions and why most are bad.
2. Visual Thinking Strategies
3. Principles of Light and how a lens works
4. Files on your camera and the computer
5. Resolution, Megapixels, and lies
6. Depth of Field (DOF)
Stories
June 14, 2006
Try and make a set of shots that tell a story.
Don't try and make the story happen, photograph the stories that are happening already.
Nature
June 14, 2006
Take pictures of the world. It's beautiful.
Trees
Leaves
Dirt
Grass
Flowers
Brush
Weeds
Pinecones
Bushes
Sky
Mountains
Lakes
The World
Digital Photography
June 14, 2006
Eventually you're going to want to sit down and put all those pictures onto that computer thingy you're using right now.
File types you might come across:
RAW
JPG / JPEG
GIF
TIFF
PNG
Self Portraits
June 14, 2006
Open up. You can start with yourself. Photography doesn't have to be about everyone else.
Try taking different types of shots:
just your face
full body
reflections
shadows
black & white
landscapes
body parts (arms, legs, hands, etc. )
Elements
June 14, 2006
Things to use when describing photos and things to think about when taking photos:
Line
Shape
Color
Texture
Pattern
Contrast
Space
Subject
Vantage point
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)
June 14, 2006
When someone comes up to you and tells you about an experience they have, they use descriptive words that evoke memories, feelings, and pictures of things they have seen or experienced.
When you want to move your photography up a notch, when you want to move up from the average joe snapshots to the amazing shots you see on Flickr, you need to develope a visual thinking strategy.
A visual thinking strategy is how you go about learning about photography. It's taking the idea of learning more about taking good photos, and actually doing it. It's learning photography through your observations of the world around you, and through the things that interest you. As you fine tune this VTS, you will begin to see photos everywhere. Not prints. But you will be able to see with your eyes what will be a good shot and what won't. You will have a visual thinking strategy.
