Monday, August 27, 2007

For Wednesday

Assignment: Three mug shots - head and shoulders, shot vertical. One at 28 mm, one at 50 mm and one at 75 mm.

These will be the first three of the 36 Faces assignment. They are to be people you don't know and you'll need to get their names, ages, hometowns, majors (or job titles) and one piece of contact information (phone or email).

Moments in mug shots are rare, but controlling your background and filling the frame are important here. Watch out for bad light, low light, high contrast light, things growing out of heads, awkward expressions. Make sure your shutter speed doesn't fall below 1/60 of a second.

Questions? Ask away, by email or in the comments section if you think others will benefit from the info.

3 comments:

sraaah said...

hey i was one of those people that, for a personal reason, was unable to have a card during class on monday. however, i got one and shot about 50 pix with it. then i got my compact flash card out and thought i could get it on my comp. but figured out that i couldn't and tried to put it back into my camera. i had some trouble putting it in and i was just wondering what the heck "error 02" means when i finally got it in?

anna said...

so the first three still need to be people we don't know?

Mark E. Johnson said...

Yes, they should be people you don't know. For ethical reasons we don't report on people we know, same standard for photos.