Mid Unit Assessment

Shutter Photo Shoot

Fast Shutter Speed
Shot at 1/125 of a second
Modeled by Ms. Gach and Breno
Shot by Tavishi

Fast Shutter Speed
Shot at 1/320 of a second
Modeled by Megan
Shot by Tavishi

Slow Shutter Speed
3.2 Seconds
Modeled by Sasha
Shot by Tavishi

Slow Shutter Speed
Shot at 15 seconds
Drawn by Sasha
Shot by Sara

Slow Shutter Speed
Shot at 15 seconds
Drawn by Sasha
Shot by Meghan

Slow Shutter Speed
Shoat at 10 seconds
Drawn by Meghan
Shot by Sasha

Q1. What did you learn or understand better about shooting at shutter speed priority? 

I learnt what a shutter speed did and was and also understood how a camera works better. I learnt about light photography which uses a slow shutter speed and taking jump shots which uses a fast shutter speed.

Q2. What were your successes during this shoot?
My successes were taking one really good jump shot of Breno and Ms. Gach and taking good light photos. 

Q3. What were your struggles?
My struggles were capturing a good picture and finding the right shutter speed for the jump shots. As for light photography, it was hard trying to draw letters because you had to draw them backwards.

Polygon Reflection

Q1. What are the common properties of all polygons?

All polygons are multi-sided (more than 2 sides), have only straight lines(no curvy lines), closed, 2D(planar), have angles, have vertices and have no intersections.

Not a Polygon

Is a Polygon

Q2. What does the measure in degrees tell you about an angle? 

The measure in degrees tell you the type of angle an angle is. For example; 90˚ is a right angle, more than 90˚ and less than 180˚ is an obtuse angle, 180˚is a straight angle, over 180˚ is a reflex angle. Depending on the degrees we can tell what angle it is.

Q3. What are some common angles?

Common angles are called benchmark angles. Benchmark angles are commonly used and are easily identified. A few common benchmark angles are 30˚, 45˚, 60˚, 90˚ and 180˚.    

Types of Angles

Benchmark Angles

Q4. What are some strategies that can be used to estimate angle measures?

There are 3 steps that are used to estimate the measure of an angle.

Step 1:
Is it acute or obtuse?

Most angles that are used for estimating the measure are acute and obtuse angles although really you need to identify the type. Sometimes you could have a right, reflex or straight angle in which case you will obviously not ask the question, 'is it obtuse or acute'.

Step 2:
Is it one of the common angles?(degrees)

This means, is it one of the benchmark angles or "common" angles. And it is talking about degrees, the degrees of the benchmark angles not the type as we already covered that. 

Step 3:
Have I read the angle from the initial to terminal side?
This means that you have read the angle from the zero line or starting line of the angle and are going to the other line which is the line that rotates depending on the angle. 

TQ5. How do you find accurate measurements with tools?
To find an accurate measurement you will need to protractor. Watch the video below to find out how to use a protractor.

 Exemplary 4. Write one set of directions to construct a polygon that is satisfied by only two shapes.
Directions: Draw 2 polygons that have four 90˚ angles and 2 sets of parallel lines.
Answer: Draw a square and a rectangle.

Apperture Photo Shoot

Shot at f 10

Shot at f 5

shot at f 32

Shot at 7.1

Shot at f 7.1

1. What did you learn or understand better about shooting at aperture priority?

I learnt about shallow depth of filed and deep depth of filed as well as what an aperture was and how to control the f stop. I also learnt that control over the aperture is extremely helpful with blurring the background, especially on manual mode.

2. What were your successes during this shoot?

My successes were that I got better with each shot and took some cool pictures and learnt a lot of new things with the doing on how to take a picture.

3. What were your struggles?

My struggle was that I sometimes forgot to change my f stop which is why I have 2 pictures of the same f stop.

First Day Photo Shoot

What was difficult or surprising about shooting these photos?
It was surprising on how many shots you had to take in order to get a picture you liked and how many angles you had to try before achieving a picture that you really like.

What else would you have shot if you had time?
I would've reshot the bike picture because I shot the bikes at a really good angle which I really liked but it was blurred, so I would reshoot that.

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