
Carolynn Helton's Classes
This site shows all the classes I have taught or currently teach. My goal is to have all the curriculum available here online for students, parents and myself. Currently I am teaching Photography/Yearbook, Art Exporations, Video/Media, Leadership and Mixed Media Arts at ERCLC (Eleanor Roosevelt) .
Lenses: (Use the sony cameras!) = images
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Zenit Fish Eye = 3 Photos of your choice
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Pentax Takumar 135mm = 3 photos shot at Aperture 2.5 and 1 at Aperture 11 or higher
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85mm 1.5 Helios
3 at Aperture 4 with the subject (flower, person, dog ect about 10 feet or so in front of a tree with the sun behind it so you get the bubbles in the background. Basically the blurred off background has contrast of light and dark to get bubble bokeh.
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3 at Aperture 1.5 your choice but has to have a subject in focus and not be just a landscape. The bokeh (background) will be creamy and not the bubbly swirled.
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Helios 44 mm
3 swirley bokeh (this is not the extra swirly Helios, use the regular 44mm) at F4 (trick is distance of background and contrast from the subject). It will have a different look than the 85mm lens.
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Helios 44 or 85 lens flare.
3 photos. Make sure you are shooting with light being behind the subject to cause flare, sometimes it works better if sun is just outside the view to the side. Be at Aperture 1.5 or 2 to get flare.
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Helios Anamorphic it is the one with the cat eye shape when you look inside. Be at f2 and have light hit from behind (sun, cell phone light, video or street lights).
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