On Tuesday, we will begin by making a contact print of the portrait of your camera buddy. Then, you will make an enlargement from the same negative. If you are not happy with the negative that you shot during class, then please have another negative ready to print by Tuesday morning. It can be of your camera buddy, or if that isn't practical, it can be of anyone. You will receive a grade based on the quality of the negative and the resulting prints.
Please read Chapter Four: Optical Principles & Chapter Five: Camera Movements before you begin the shooting assignment.
Shooting Assignment - processed negatives due by the beginning of class Thursday.
You are to take the following:
1. Photo demonstrating appropriate use of front tilt.
2. Photo demonstrating appropriate use of real tilt.
3. Photo demonstrating appropriate use of front rise, fall, or shift.
These are creative photo assignments with small technical requirements; not the other way around. Since we need photos of the theme of Landscape and Reclamation in order to submit an exhibition proposal, if you address that theme with this assignment it would be ideal.
We will begin class on Thursday by contacting printing your negatives. The rest of the class will be spent looking at large format landscape photography.
Here is a little write up that takes a problem solving approach to camera movements.
Here is a link to a PDF article with some nice illustrations and notes on camera movements. The illustrations begin on page 8.
Here is a yet one more write up on camera movements. It uses a real nice variety of example photos and illustrations.
Below is a video that demonstrates rise/fall/shift on a 4x5 field camera. It works the same on your monorail cameras.
Below is a video demonstrating the Scheimpflug rule. Basically, it describes how to use tilt/swing to predictably place the plane of focus. I suggest you avoid shooting anything close up like this until we cover compensating for bellows extension.
Happy shooting!
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