DAY 5: Composition Making

     It's been a long time since we had our class. Though it's only one meeting we missed because of the typhoon, it feels that all of us haven't seen each other for a very long time ago. We thought that we'll already take the online exam as our prelims on that day that's why you would see a lot who were in rush reading notes and asking their seatmates.

     Relieved! Fortunately, we'll not take the exam yet! (because honestly I'm unprepared)

     The first thing we were asked to do when our professor came in is to prepare our portrait shot of one of our family members. We presented our works in front of the class while telling what's the context or situation while taking those photos and also the settings of the exposure triangle. My shot was under-exposed, my model was my sister.

     After the presentation our prof revealed that our topic will be about composition and to test how we see things with the lenses of the camera, we were tasked to do an ALPHABET PHOTOGRAPHY! There we spread outside the room eager to find anything that will show letters of the alphabet. May the best eyes win!The more creative you are, the more chances of winning! Lol.

     The secret maybe is to simply be a kin observer. Look on every small details in the surroundings. They may show the letters you're finding. We learned that in order to identify if you have at least good skills in composition, show your shot to others and if takes time for them to recognize the letter that you're trying to show, it's time to find another subject and work harder, while if they understand the letter immediately, go ahead and keep up the good work!

     These are some of the photos that I took when we done the exercise for almost an hour. I hope you understand what I am trying to show on each picture! All of the photos were shot inside the campus since we're not allowed to go outside the school because it's still our class hours though we're doing our exercise outside the classroom.

     After we tried our composition activity outside the room which we'll pass and present next meeting, our prof told us another new information about cameras that we should not forget. 

     It's about how the camera metering matters. We learned that cameras make black or white colors in the picture into a middle gray shade. Something like the color will always be in the middle tone. 

     Look at the picture below. The first one show the corresponding color where the center have the middle gray. The Second picture is an example of the metering we see in our camera whever we are about to take a shot. It's would tell you if it would be going to be over-exposed (more on left) or under-exposed( more on right), that's why to play safe you should let the pointer be at the middle. 

Photo From Google Images

Photo From Google Images

     It may be just easy and definitely the basics but at least the following sizes are already clear to us now. Thanks to our professor! Hahaha!

3x5 = 3R

4x6 = 4R

5x7 = 5R

8x10 = 8R

11x14 = 111R

     Thanks for visiting and reading! Watch out for my Alphabet Photography soon when I'm done!

May God Bless Us All!