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Week 3 - Compositional Dexterity Assessment
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Collection Instructions
Collection Instructions
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Collection Instructions
Select 15 images from your first 3weeks
Images should represent your natural photographic tendencies — not necessarily your "best" work
Upload your images to your Google Drive folder with the folder title: "Compositional Dexterity Assessment"
Paste the Link to the Google Drive Folder
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After you've done that, please answer. the following questions.
1. Compositional Patterns
Looking at your 15 images, which compositional approaches appear most frequently?
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Looking at your 15 images, which compositional approaches appear most frequently?
Which of these compositional techniques have you avoided or never attempted?
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Which of these compositional techniques have you avoided or never attempted?
2. Scale and Perspective
Your images tend toward:
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Your images tend toward:
When choosing your shooting distance, you typically:
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When choosing your shooting distance, you typically:
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Get close to your subejcts
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Stand back and include more context
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Vary distance based on the scene
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Haven't consciously thought about this
3. Depth of Field Awareness
When you control Aperture settings, you tend to:
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When you control Aperture settings, you tend to:
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Create shallow Depth of Field (blurred foregrounds/backgrounds)
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Use deep Depth of Field (everything in focus)
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Mix of both approaches
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Haven't consciously controlled this yet
Which Depth of Field approach do you avoid or find challenging?
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Which Depth of Field approach do you avoid or find challenging?
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Getting everything sharp in landscapes
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Creating smooth background blur
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Managing focus with multiple subjects
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Haven't attempted to control this
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I don't feel I struggle or avoid any of the above
4. Light Quality and Timing
Which lighting situations do you typically shoot?
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Which lighting situations do you typically shoot?
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Midday
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Same time of day consistently
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Golden hour (sunrise/sunset)
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Blue hour (before sunrise/after sunset)
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Whatever time is convenient
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Various times depending on subject
Which lighting situations do you find most challenging?
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Which lighting situations do you find most challenging?
5. Subject Matter Patterns
Your subjects are usually:
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Your subjects are usually:
Which subjects do you actively avoid or feel uncomfortable photographing?
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Which subjects do you actively avoid or feel uncomfortable photographing?
6. Challenge Recognition
When composing, what consistently frustrates you?
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When composing, what consistently frustrates you?
Which shooting situations do you actively avoid?
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Which shooting situations do you actively avoid?
When you're dissatisfied with an image, it's usually because:
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When you're dissatisfied with an image, it's usually because:
7. Learning Preferences
What type of photograph do you want to create but haven't succeeded at yet?
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When you look at photographs you admire, what draws you to them most?
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