Digital Camera Challenge
A day of focused tasks matched to your skills and designed to extend your knowledge.
Learn tips of the trade, make the most of your kit. Turn your ideas into reality.
Courtyard Arts: Saturday 6th August 10am – 4pm Tutor: Mike Howarth
Checklist: Bring flash memory card, battery charger, computer cable, camera, manual and laptop if you have one.
Website: mhmvr.com
Some essential knowledge of the Field:
| Base Technicals | Tricks of the Trade | Human |
Depth of Field | Keep your camera ready | Dealing with people |
| Aperture | Keep hand on the camera | Talking |
| Shutter speed | Think of the next shot | Making things happen |
| Film speed | Looking | Getting your own way |
| Camera Menu | Lots of shots | Nobody helps a photographer |
| Bright conditions | Move about | People are human. Be pleasant |
| Dark conditions | Look around the frame | Ask permission |
| Depth 13 clues | Golden Mean | Carry ID |
| Colour | Focus on the eyes | Being in the World |
| Contrast | Upside down review | Watch |
| Landscape Portrait | Squint | Awareness of sun time seasons |
| Square | Falling out of the picture | Awareness of space |
| Symmetry | Projects | Inner dialogue |
| Patterns – fractals | Tripods are not for wimps | Sketching and Writing |
| Lens + min shutter speed | Only 12 pic story | Practitioners, Photo, Design, Art |
| Computer Software | Use camera eyes closed | Reading |
| Your eye & brain not the camera | ||
| Pictures are made | ||
| Notebook and pen |