Introduction:

For this assignment, we will be dealing with two concerns we experience as photographers, low light exposures and noise.

Shooting Requirements:

2 Categories for shooting

• Long shutter speed at the Lowest ISO.

• Faster shutter Speed at a High ISO.

Long Shutter Speed at the Lowest ISO

• Shoot in Manual.

• Use your lowest ISO available.

• Shoot with a shutter speed of 5 seconds or longer (Push the limits of your camera).

• Meter and use histogram to find proper f/stop.

• Use a stabilizing device (tripod, books, etc.).

• Photograph after dark.

• Indoors/outdoors okay.

• Look for moving objects, interesting light, colors, paint with light, etc. (No car trails).

Faster shutter speed at a High ISO (Handheld at 1/60th of a second or faster)

• Everything in the frame should be sharp (no motion allowed!).

• Use your camera’s FOUR fastest ISO speeds available (including expansion mode).

• Stabilization device acceptable, not required.

• Indoors/outdoors okay.

• Photograph after the sun has dropped below the horizon or before it rises above the horizon in the morning.

• Subject matter should be something that interests you: landscapes, nighttime sporting event, live music, neon lights, etc.

• NO FLASH.

Develop:

File Processing:

• Import images into Lightroom catalog,

• IPTC, metadata, keywords etc. REQUIRED.

• Develop Module, burn, and dodge as usual.

• Use Noise Reduction sliders for Luminance and Color as discussed in class.

• Sharpening.

To be turned in:

A zipped folder named A04_Lastname containing the following:

Exported DNGs:

• 2 images of long shutter speed at a low ISO.

• 2 images at a high ISO.

• 1 cropped Image of one of high ISO from above.