This document provides guidance to students on their photography exam assignment. It instructs them to choose a photographer this week to study for their technical camera skills. It emphasizes incorporating their chosen theme, an aesthetic photographer's style, and the technical photographer's techniques into their exam shoot. It reminds students to review examples and notes to help with their planning.

1. This week you need to chose a photographer to
study whose technical use of the camera
inspires you.
It is important at this point to remember that you
are being asked to take a shoot for your exam
that incorporates:
• Your theme (chosen week 1)
• Elements of your aesthetic photographer's
style (studied last week - week 2)
• Some of the camera settings/techniques used
by your technical photographer (studied this
week)
Look at the examples and reminder notes in the
Power Point to help you.

2. Here Kareem begins to investigate the
light painting portraits of Julian Cash,
before outlining how light painting works.
Kareem writes: “The way light painting
works in basic forms is to strictly limit the
amount of light that can hit the sensor or
film on a camera. Because of the small
aperture and under-exposed images, a
slow shutter speed is able to be used,
however…it is important to keep in
mind…that a light painting photograph
often looks better when the image is
underexposed, so that the colour and
bright light trail contrasts the dark and
bland background.”

3. After the analysis of Julian Cash’s work, Kareem
begins experimenting with light painting, exploring
various lighting strategies (such as using a torch to
spotlight plants during the exposure)
This student is applying the slow shutter speed
technical aspects of Julian Cash’s work to his own
shoot, using what he has learnt by studying his
work.

4. Reminders and Hints:
• Shutter speed: frozen motion/blurred motion
• Aperture: depth of field
• ISO: sensitivity to light noise/grain)
• Focus: sharp/blurred
• Camera movement/tripod/zoom
• White Balance
• Burst shot
• Use of different type of lens (if you have them) – macro
photography

5. Week 3 – 8th June 2020
Create at LEAST three slides on
another Photographer whose technical
approach inspires you. Use the
‘Photographer support sheets’ to
format this page and support what to
write.
Write about why you have chosen
them, how it links to your project
theme and how it might inspire future
shoots.
Deadline: Monday 15th June

6. https://www.techradar.com/how-to/the-exposure-triangle

7. * Year 12 Photography Exam Grades will be a combination of the set exam and
year 12 project work.
*please note tasks from week 1 to 4 are designed to ensure you have researched and prepared
for your exam shoot in week 6. All work (including the exam shoot) will be based on your chosen
theme for your personal coursework project.
Date Tasks
Week 1 18th May Theme research, mood board, spider diagram &
Pinterest album
Week 2 1st June Artist 1 – aesthetics
Week 3 8th June Artist 2- technical
Week 4 15th June Exam plan
Week 5 22nd June No Lessons – year 12 internal exams
Week 6 29th June Photography Exam - Shoot
Week 7&8 6th & 13th July -Deadline for Photography Exam – 6th July
-Further research & essay introductions.