• 100 ISO speed color negative film
  
  
• Development of film onto a CD
  
  
• Download the Assignment Submission Sheet (a1ss.txt) from this Photo Assignment page.
  
  
• Have your color negative film processed soon and request a photo CD along with your prints.
  
  
• PLAN AHEAD AND SHOOT EARLY in the week as it may take up to 3 days to get your film and CD processed.
  
  
• Insert images into the assignment submission document and submit them through the Assignment Tool in WebCT. (Refer to the eSubmissions' and HowTo' documents in this Course Outline).

• To learn the difference between objective (formal) and subjective (narrative) images.
  
  
• To develop an appreciation of why some images are more ‘memorable’ than others… Why should I care about your image??? When it provokes new thought and emotion.
  
  
• To reinforce the difference between SEE (objective), THINK (narrative/story) and FEEL (emotions).
  
  
• To transform something ordinary into something extraordianry.

Procedure

• Ideally photograph in bright sunny conditions so that you can apply your knowledge of BEF. If it is overcast here, try driving inland or up into the mountains to find the right conditions.
  
  
• Try to make all your exposure decisions based on BEF, not your built in camera meter.
  
  
• You will take two separate shots of your chair (one objective view and one subjective view) with 3 separate exposures each, totaling 6 images.
  
  
• USE THE SAME CHAIR FOR EACH.
  
  
• Determine f/stop and shutter speed settings using the Basic Exposure Formula (BEF).
  
  
• Take a total of 6 shots: 3 objective views varying exposure from N (normal), -1 (one stop underexposed) and +1 (one stop overexposed); and 3 subjective views (N, -1, +1).
  
  
• If you do not have the specific f/stops or apertures suggested below allow your meter and/or auto exposure functions to support your image making. Ultimately I want something from you rather than nothing.
  
  
  1. Compose an Objective view of your chair considering dramatic composition and interesting light.
  2. Set your camera to manual and the f/stop to f/11 if the chair is illuminated by bright sun (bright sun coming through a window onto the chair counts) and your shutter speed at 1/125; take the first image
  3. Set the camera for a –1 exposure: f/16 and a shutter speed of 1/125, and take the 2nd image
  4. Set the camera for a +1 exposure: f/8 and a shutter speed of 1/125
  5. Compose a Subjective view of the SAME CHAIR (probably in a new location) considering dramatic composition and interesting light.
  6. Set the camera for a N, -1, and a +1 exposure just as you did for the Objective view.
  7. Finish your roll of film by changing viewpoints of the chair experimenting with both objective and subjective
  8. Process your film at a lab that will give you a CD of your images. You can choose to have prints made too.
  9. Download the 01 Assignment Submission Sheet. Open the Submission Sheet in Microsoft Word. Fill in the required information and insert the correct images into the appropriate locations, it will say"(paste image here)".
  10. Save the file as a text file. see HowTo document.
  11. Upload the file through the Assignment page submit tool.

Tips

• We have certain perceptions about chairs, mostly surrounding their utilitarian applications. How can you present something new about a chair?
  
  
• Example: Baby's High Chair
  1. An Objective view would probably be shot in a kitchen enhanced by some lighting condition that draws attention, like late afternoon sun streaming in the window.
  2. The Subjective view?
  The same high chair in the middle of a lonely deserted roadway; shot from ground level from a slight distance...
  
  WHAT'S THE NEW STORY ABOUT THIS CHAIR?
  
  
• Both the objective and subjective views have merit, they should be shot with equal integrity.
  
  
• OBJECTIVE CHAIR: formal, site-specific image. Photographed without specific perspective distortion. Light in daylight or window light.
  
  
• SUBJECTIVE CHAIR: narrative (storytelling). Location can/should be a surprise. Dramatic camera perspective can add impact.

Technical Information

• BEF (Basic Exposure Formula)
  
  
• Bracketing (N, -1, +1)
  
  
• Using normal (objective) and distorted (subjective) perspectives
  
  
• Identifying normal, over and under exposures.