Digital Camera Warmup exercise:
You will use your camera in full automatic or program mode for this exercise.

• Make sure your battery is charged.
  
  Clean off your memory card (format)- make sure any photos on it are backed up first.
  
  Check the time and date settings on your camera
  
  Set the quality setting of your camera to the best .jpg quality (sometimes referred to as fine)
  
  If your camera doesn’t have a program mode- set the ISO, Focus and White Balance to automatic
  
  Learn how to use close-up and self timer modes for your camera.
  
  You will use the program or full auto mode for this first exercise.
  
• Use the camera in many different situations-
  be bold and experimental. Use it indoors and outdoors, distant
  and close-up, natural light and artificial light, moving and still subjects. Give your camera a real workout.
  DO NOT DELETE BAD PHOTOS-we will try to figure out why they didn’t work
  SHOOT AT LEAST 200 PHOTOS- Look them over at home on your computer. Back them up at home if you can. we
  will load them into your computer in class and evaluate them.¨
• Outside shots in sunlight:- sun at your back, sun behind the subject
  ¨ Outside shots in shade
  ¨ Landscape distance shot s
  ¨ Outside Closeup (as close as your camera focuses)
  ¨ Indoor Closeup (as close as your camera focuses)
  ¨ Indoor room shots
  ¨ Candid people
  ¨ Portraits
  ¨ Self Portraits in mirror
  ¨ Self Portraits at arms length
  ¨ Self portrait susing camera timer
  ¨ Moving subject in bright light
  ¨ Moving subject in low light (you may need a tripod or camera support for this)
  ¨ Camera Horizontal
  ¨ Camera Vertical
  ¨ Camera tilted off level
  ¨ Looking up from low angle
  ¨ Looking down from high angle
  ¨ Night shots (tripod)
  ¨Use the timer with the camera on the ground (super low angle)
  ¨Hold the camera high (over your head)
  ¨Point the camera into places that you can’t see
  ¨Any other ideas you can play with- have some fun