Lesson 7: exposure compensation / classwork
Duration of Days: 2
Lesson Objective
Students will be able to identify what exposure compensation is and how to control it.
They will also be able to identify scenarios where a camera’s light meter fails and use the Exposure Compensation (+/-) button to manually adjust brightness to achieve a perfectly exposed image.
Will the camera always expose a photo correctly?
Why does the camera have this setting?
What does going into the positive numbers do?
What does going into the negative numbers do?
Why is not available in manual setting?
Light Meter
Middle Gray
Exposure Value (EV)
Stops
Overexposed
Underexposed
Anchor Standard #2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Attention to detail and precision
- Problem solving and critical thinking
- Focus, patience, and time management
- Understanding and applying instructions
This is a DOK level 2 skill. Selecting settings to be applied to a work of art requires basic understanding of the camera settings and how to manipulate them.
Students will be shown various popular photographs from various times. reinforce the difference in photographs and how settings changed delighting, mood and the overall appearance of such photographs.
That the camera will always be right and that the camera does better at selecting settings than you would.
Advanced students could work on using Spot Metering + Exposure Comp to protect highlights and lowlights.
Can students use, manipulate and change the settings of the camera to change the exposure of a photograph?
Can students use their predictive logic—their ability to look at a scene and know before they click if they are underexposing a shot or over exposing a shot?
Each student will be provided with a dslr camera or a higher grade camera.
Computer with lightroom/photoshop
Objects to photograph or a location to photograph