A1: What does your camera do?

We want to explore what a camera can do. You can use any camera you like. Your mobile phone has one, but you may have others as well. You will create a set of comparison images, each of which is taken in the same camera placement, but with a single variable manipulated. Your goal is to make the images :

• artistic and interesting (you are a photographer!)
• as different as possible (to show what this control is capable of)

You must explore these variables (every camera has these):

• focus setting
• aperture setting 
• shutter time setting 
• ISO setting 

Your camera/phone may have a lot of additional things to explore :

• HDR
• Portrait mode
• Flash / no flash
• Synthetic depth of field
• 3D front camera
• 3D back camera
• JPG vs RAW
• Night sight
• 3D from moving the camera around an object
• Automatic face beautification
• All the different camera images on your quad camera phone
• etc

You will need to download some sort of "pro camera" app if you are using a mobile phone. Its unlikely that the built in app gives you direct access to Aperture, Shutter Speed, Focus, ISO, etc. You will almost certainly need some additional app to get to 3D imaging and other advanced imaging. 

What to turn in:

A single PDF file, in landscape orientation (as if created in powerpoint/keynote). For each characteristic one slide that shows this variable.

• If its something like Focus, then you show two or more versions of the same picture with focus changed. If its JPG/RAW then you may need to show a zoomed in section to show the difference at the pixel level. If its 3D data, it may not be a comparison, just a visualization of the data. Whatever you can do to best show this characteristic.
• Your name somewhere on the slide (every slide).
• The details of the camera you used and the feature you are showing labeled on the slide.

Another thing to turn in:

There will be a class google slides deck which we will look through in class. Pick your 3 *best* to share with the class. The goal is to show us something new. If you are a great photographer with a DSLR, then you can do amazing things with Focus. If your artistic talents are lacking, then seeing even poorly composed raw 3D data will help your classmates learn. As a rough rule, to keep it diverse, lets say that we wish we don't have more than 10 examples of any single characteristic. If you need video to best show the feature, then include two slides, the first with video, the second as backup with images only.

Link to google slides deck Links to an external site.

Grading:

Each slide with a unique variable that shows something interesting is worth 1 point each. Participating in the class slide deck is 1 point total. 9 slides submitted in Canvas plus adding to the class slide deck is full score on this assignment. Those of you with fancy phones with lots of features will come up with examples easily, please show us that new feature in the iPhone12 and Galaxy23 that we haven't seen before. Those with older phones will need to download some apps to come up with enough things, but it is no less interesting since app makers are often ahead of built in features. I am personally very interested in 3D and special functions from phones less common in the US (Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi, etc.).