The document provides information about the A Level Photography course, including details about the two modules, equipment needed, and differences from the previous year. It also gives an overview of the A2 (ART3) Personal Investigation module, outlining the induction tasks, night photography project, research requirements, and importance of concepts. Students are quizzed on photographic techniques and terms from the AS level to ensure they remember key information from the prior year.

1. • Chris Timothy
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• jkb@kinged6nun.ac.uk
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A Level Photography

2. A Level Photography
2 Modules in the second year
ART3 60 % of A2 120 Marks
ART4 40% of A2 100 Marks
Remember the 2 modules make up 50% of you’re A Level

3. What are the differences to last year?
-Amount of time you spend with the camera
-Greater specialism in a particular medium/concept
-The level of Technical skills, marking is harsher
-More detailed research, analysis and reflection
-The same
-The format of the year
-Importance of Concept
A Level Photography

4. What Equipment do you need?
-Your own SD card
-Your own Memory stick
-Your own DSLR Camera, or quick and prompt bookings of
our DSLRcameras
-Sketch Book
-Scissors and glue
-Pens and Notepad
A Level Photography

5. A2 (ART3) at a glance
Personal Investigation

6. A2 (ART3) at a glance
Induction tasks
The relationship
between
Aperture, I.S.O
and shutter
speed
Night
Photography
Studio or
Ambient
lighting?
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7. A2 (ART3) at a glance
1.The relationship between I.S.O, Aperture and Shutter speed (induction project)

8. A2 (ART3) at a glance
2. Night Photography – Light painting

9. A2 (ART3) at a glance
Night Photography – Light painting

10. A2 (ART3) at a glance
Night Photography – Light painting

11. A2 (ART3) at a glance
Night Photography – Light painting

12. A2 (ART3) at a glance
1.Night Photography – Home studio

13. A2 (ART3) at a glance
Night Photography – Motion

14. A2 (ART3) at a glance
Night Photography – Motion

15. A2 (ART3) at a glance
Ambient or Studio lighting?

16. A2 (ART3) at a glance
Ambient or Studio lighting?

17. A2 (ART3) at a glance
Ambient or Studio lighting?

18. A2 (ART3) at a glance
Personal Investigation
brainstorms

19. A2 (ART3) at a glance
Research 1 and 2
Two essays on photographic
bodies of work which link to your
proposed project idea.
The essay analyses and discusses;
1.Conceptual practice
2.Genre
3.Photographic and lighting
technique
4. How it links and influences your
idea
A –grade artist research 1 and 2
tends to be around 2000 words
each

20. Visual influences
A2 (ART3) at a glance

21. Visual influences
A2 (ART3) at a glance

22. Your projects
Shooting Analysing Refecting
Documenting targets
Shooting more
A2 (ART3) at a glance

23. Quiz, what have you
remembered from
AS?
Key techniques and terms

24. What compositional rule/s has been used here?

25. What lighting technique has been used?

26. What type of shutter speed has been used here? give an example of the length.

27. This image has a shallow ________ of ___________
Secondly ive an example of the aperture setting (F number) which would ensure this
happened to this image.

28. You could achieve this tinted blue look on your
images by changing your camera to the wrong
_____ ______ on purpose.

29. What setting on my camera
would I turn to a high level if I
wanted to create Noise and
Grain on an image? Can you give
a digit example?

30. Sports photographers would
need to use a ______ lens to
ensure they could capture all
the action at an event. When
using this lens it is advisable
to accompany it with a
______ or the image would
be _______

31. If I want everything in my image to be in focus I must use what type of F/stop?
This makes the lens open Widely/Narrowly?

32. You have just captured this image.
1.Whats wrong with it? (Photographic language)
2. You need to adjust what, to capture it correctly?

33. I have set my Aperture to F/22 and shot this image, why does it look the way it does?

34. How do we know this image has been taken on a Tripod?

35. The shutter speed has to be quick to avoid motion blur, what else could I adjust on
my camera to make sure I get enough light?

36. When taking photographs within the home lit by regular house hold lights it is
important to set your white balance to what, to ensure you do not gain an orange tint?

37. Is your camera or lighting condition more important in photography?

38. This images has a shallow depth of field but everything is in focus? How come?

39. • 1.Only stick in technically perfect images for your final pieces
• Rules 1a.no under or over exposed
• 1b. Ensure your aperture setting reflects the correct depth of field
• 1c. Nice framing/composition
• 2. Mistaken images can be stuck in to show process and workings out but only if
• you have perfect images afterwards
• 3. Discuss what you had to do to shutter speed and I.S.O as a result of shooting on a
• particular aperture setting. (Don’t forget tripod) try and write as a commentary, almost a self reflective guide/diary.
• 4. Also discuss framing, composition, portrait genre objectives you have applied or not?
• Objective
• Within this reflection demonstrate an ability to express clear understandings of the relationship between ;
• Aperture, Shutter Speed and I.S.O

40. I.S.O
ApertureShutter Speed

41. I.S.O
• In traditional (film) photography ISO was the
indication of how sensitive a film was to light.
• The lower the number the lower the sensitivity of
the film and the finer the grain in the shots you’re
taking.
• 100, 200, 400, 800

42. Today in Digital
• ISO measures the sensitivity of the image sensor
• Higher ISO settings are generally used in darker situations
to get faster shutter speeds

43. So If the standard I.S.O is 100 when might we
want to increase it?
Philip Lorca Dicorcia uses high I.S.O

44. 100 ISO 3200 ISO
100 ISO is generally accepted as
‘normal’ and will give you lovely
crisp shots (little noise/grain).
3200/6400 we get a higher sensitivity,
more light hits the film. But we also get
more grain and noise.

45. Shutter Speed
• What is a cameras Shutter?

46. Shutter Speed
• The amount of time that the shutter is open’.
In digital photography
shutter speed is the
length of time that your
image sensor ’sees’ the
scene you’re attempting
to capture.
It used to be how long
the light hit the film

47. Slow Shutter Speeds
S.L.R cameras allow the user the chance to use very slow shutter speeds that are not
fractions of seconds but actual seconds (for example 1 second, 10 seconds, 30 seconds etc).
These are used in very low light situations, when you’re going after a specific effect or
look.

48. Quick Shutter Speeds
If there is movement in your scene you have the
choice of either freezing the movement (so it
looks still) or letting the moving object
intentionally blur (giving it a sense of
movement)

49. Shutter Speed has effects on other
things!
• If we have a fast shutter speed, what will we need to adjust our I.S.O to?
higher number (more sensitive to light) or lower (less sensitive to light)

50. Aperture
• Aperture is how wide the lens' iris opens. The wider it opens the more
light gets in. It's exactly the same thing as the iris of your eye which
opens more as the light gets darker
Its not the speed its how widely it opens

51. Big apertures have smaller numbers, like f/4. Smaller apertures have bigger numbers like f/16.
These are fractions
Big apertures like f/4 will tend to have just one thing in focus. A smaller aperture like f/16 will
tend to have everything in focus. How much is in focus is called depth of field.
Which image has a
big aperture and
which has a small?