Fun Challenge?

[Grant]

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!

[Carbone]

This sounds like a lot of fun (I didn't know Nikon D70 and D50 were disposable cameras, though... )

Seriously, I think if I can find the time, next weekend, I'm gonna try this!

Ray

[Carbone]

Forgot to say... Where do you find or how do you come up with all these great ideas ?!?! It's amazing!!

Ray

[NMarti]

Grant
Are you really trying to teach us something disguised as fun?
Sounds like it would be fun though just to see the results.

[Wendy]

Grant ...

I'm in !!

Wendy

[Carbone]

Grant,

I did take you seriously and tried what you suggested with my P&S camera (Powershot A510). At these settings, outside everything is way, way overexposed (more than 2 stops actually). And inside, it's underexposed.

So, since I am trying to learn what you're trying to teach us, what setting should I change.. ? ISO (tried that, from 400 to 50, it wasn't even enough for outside). Exposure or Aperture ?

Thanks,

Ray

[Grant]

Ray

What I should have said, instead of no Photoshop manipulation, is do the same thing a custom lab would do and use the automatic adjustments in Elements, but nothing fancy, just to get "proper" exposure. The film in disposable has a wide dynamic range that they will allow a print to be made with these settings. You can use flash as they do have these on disposable cameras.

[Carbone]

Oki Doki!

Ray