Assignment 2:

-Review your camera's manual and answer the following questions about your camera.
Post the answers to your blog.

1. What is the maximum image size your camera is capable of shooting in terms of pixel width and height?
2. What options do you have for controlling exposure with your camera?
3. Describe some hypothetical situations in which you would want to use different exposure modes/settings.
4. What ASA/ISO range is your camera capable of? Why would you choose one over the other?
5. What is white balance and what options do you have for adjusting it on your camera?
6. What is the histogram and how do you use it?

Answers:

1. 4,608 x 3,072
2. Metering, Autoexposure lock, Exposure Compensation, and Flash Compensation. ISO, Shutter Speed, and Aperture.
3. If I were to shoot a fast moving object, and shooing on a manual setting, I would choose a high shutter speed and medium exposure to capture of an exact moment in time.
4. The ISO range is 100-3200. I would use a lower ISO if I was shooting a scene that is bright.  I would choose a higher ISO if the scene I was shooting is dark.
5. My camera has white balance settings such as Automatic, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Direct Sunlight, Flash, Shade, Cloudy and it can be set manually.
6. The histogram help guide you to achieving a proper exposure.

-Reading Quiz
1. On pages 1-3 Szarkowski describes many ways that photography offered a new kind of picture making process with a very different group of practitioners. Describe one of the ways that photography was a very different art form.
2. What does John Szarkowski mean by the characteristic “The Thing Itself”?
3. Szarkowski writes that the time that photographs describe is always the present. What does he mean?

Answers:
1. Photography was a different art form because its product was never "made" it was always "taken." You make art, not take it, or so the people thought back when photography was first introduced. Now, it's so much more.
2. "The Thing Itself" was the image giving more credence than the actual human eye. "For the image would survive the subject, and become the remembered reality." This technically means that one simple image can make an object or memory last a lifetime.
3. He means that they will always represent the duration of time it took to produce the image. The photograph will always and forever show the time it was taken, never before or after. It is stuck in the present of where it once was.