Grant
February 5th, 2006, 11:17 PM
Last weekend a group of my friends decided to do an artistic photographic challenge. Well maybe not artistic but certainly devoid of technical things. What they did was buy disposable cameras and shoot away. The images were comercially developed and the shots were passed around for lots and lots of laughs. The funny thing was there were some pretty good photographs in the bunch ... well ... true ... not to may tack sharp images in were in the bunch.
It is a fun thing to try and if you want to do this sort of thing but don't want to send the $5.00 then here is what to do. Set your camera to manual both focusing and controls. Set your ISO to 400, aperture to f8, shutter to 1/80 and set the lens to widest it can go (28 for 35 mm, 18 mm for DSLR and so on) then focus at about 8'. Now go out and shoot 28 images and print them without any manipulation. Using your eyes and brains will help with this one. Any takers?
Have fun!
It is a fun thing to try and if you want to do this sort of thing but don't want to send the $5.00 then here is what to do. Set your camera to manual both focusing and controls. Set your ISO to 400, aperture to f8, shutter to 1/80 and set the lens to widest it can go (28 for 35 mm, 18 mm for DSLR and so on) then focus at about 8'. Now go out and shoot 28 images and print them without any manipulation. Using your eyes and brains will help with this one. Any takers?
Have fun!