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Exploring Tone and Contrast

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Ansel Adams, an American photographer who took landscape photographs in order to capture the beauty of nature. He enjoyed taking pictures of National Parks and mountains. His photography includes  a range of tones in which he believed brings his photos to life., creating a more memorizing picture. His use of tone and contrast brings out the detail in all areas of the picture whether it is over or under exposed.

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Within Ansel Adams photographs he ensures he that he displays all and reflects all the shades within the zonal system. This is split into 10 different shades varying from sark grey to white.

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Following from Adams work i used Photoshop to increase and improve the tone and contrast trying to ensure i displayed all shades from the zone system.

What Is Tone?

Tone is the lightness/brightness  of a patch in a photograph, dark tones correspond to shadows, light tones correspond to bright or highlight areas.

What Is Contrast?

Contrast is a tool that photographers use to direct viewers’ attention to their subject. There are two types: Tonal Contrast and Color Contrast. Contrast more or less refers to the difference in tones from the lightest tone to the darkest tone.

 

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Experimenting with shutter-speed

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SHUTTER-SPEED

Faster camera shutter speeds are used in order to capture fast moving objects/elements of an image such as Athletes or the motion of water. However slow shutter speeds are used for capturing detail especially in dark environments as it allows a lot of light to enter the camera. But slow shutter speeds can be used to create visual blurred effects on single elements of an image while allowing the rest of the image to remain still.

Most cameras range from a 30 sec shutter speed 1/4000 sec.

Here is an example of how the use shutter speed can be executed…

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Myself and Jonny Phillips went out into the Hautlieu Street In order to experiment with different camera shutter-speeds. The majority of the photos that we took used movement of the camera itself, meaning that the whole image was blurred. In future using a tripod or a still surface to support the camera would be useful as it would mean that moving elements of the image will appear blurred however fixed/stationary elements would remain appearing still.

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Tanja Demain And Johnny Briggs Photographer

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Recently there was an exhibition for Johnny Briggs,how work was mainly surrounding the inspiration of his life growing up and the impact fro within his family life and also his fathers voice.So he uses  photography to explore my relationship with deception, the constructed reality of the family, and question the boundaries between his parents and himself , between child/adult, self/other, nature/culture, real/fake in attempt to revive my unconditioned self. He is also inspired by many different effects of war and how in the modern day he can represent an underlining aftermath of the holocaust and how it also effects jerseys history as a whole. In his pieces you can see many mouths and lipstick in order to demonstrate how to be quite and as a metaphor to be shut out.Th lipstick also represents how something designed to enhance beauty and also portrays no speech and a substance that you do not want to touch to cause an impact of smudging of ruining a relationship .Here are some examples of his own work.Within the makings of his work he also likes to produce it relativity rather than using Photoshop to create an almost illusion.

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Tanja Deman’s art is inspired by her interest in the perception of space and her relationship to nature. Demain,is a photographer inspired by many natural works and also how some of these monumental industrial building can fit into other scenarios in order to demonstrate a demand for attention and significance.She explains how she knows where she wants to explore but it is nature and whatever she can develop informant of her that inspires her to make her art.She is also interest in Observing recently built legacy or natural sites her work investigates the sociology of space and reflects dynamics hidden under the surface of both the built and natural environment. Many of her new artworks are inspired by taking them underwater to develop a relationship with the movement of water and lighting and to capture the perfect atmosphere that is also the most uncovered and unexplored part of the world,so inspired her to further look into what she uncover,almost as  a mystery to herself.

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Black and white tone experimentation

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Ansel Adams zone system

The Zone System, was a system of distinguishing between various black to white tones within an image. It provides photographers with a systematic method of precisely defining the relationship between the way they visualize the photographic subject and the final results.

Here are some photographs I have edited in Adobe Photoshop with the Ansel Adams Zone tonal system in mind. 

 

 

 

 

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what is exposure

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Achieving the correct exposure is based upon that of the rate o flight is uncontrollable, three factors remain under your control:

1)the cameras(lens) width, 2)the duration you leave it in then(exposed to light),3)and the quantity of light you want to collect.

It is a necessity to make sure you collect the correct amount of light not underexposed but not overexposed levels. This is highly important due to the many different availabilities of width, time and quantity of light you wish to achieve.

For example,less amount go time in the light can work if you’re camera lens expands and is very wide.Alternatively for the same duration with a narrow lens can be used but you Will achieve less light.

EXPOSURE TRIANGLE: APERTURE, ISO & SHUTTER SPEED

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Each setting controls exposure differently:

Aperture: controls the area over which light can enter your camera
Shutter speed: controls the duration of the exposure
ISO speed: controls the sensitivity of your camera’s sensor to a given amount of light

although one section is able to use as many different combinations to achieve s certain style and technique. The key, however, is knowing which trade-offs to make, since each setting also influences other image properties.

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ISO,aperture photo shoot

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For this shoot I wanted to experiment the same shot and how it works ind developing detail, colour,and background when changing the ISO and Aperture settings.these photos devoted from 100 to 1600 doubling every time.

The ISO speed determines how sensitive the camera is to incoming light. Similar to shutter speed, it also correlates 1:1 with how much the exposure increases or decreases. However, unlike aperture and shutter speed, a lower ISO speed is almost always desirable. As a result, ISO speed is usually only increased from its minimum value if the desired aperture and shutter speed aren’t otherwise obtainable.This can cage depending to lighting or if it happens to be a very quick shutter speed to capture an action shot. With the first few images you can see the development of a lower to higher ISO level. It slowly looses the detail and becomes too exposed and is unable too capture the image; as seen before.The ghee exposure is  available to ‘film grain” seen in traditional photography.

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Secondly I focused on Aperture. Aperture is when A camera’s setting controls the area over which light can pass through your camera lens,uch like exposure and alliance of light. It is specified in terms of an f-stop values. In photographer slang, when someone says they are “stopping down” or “opening up” their lens, they are referring to increasing and decreasing the f-stop value, respectively. this is the widening snd retraction of the lens to determine the amount of access to light they wish to capture. This is the second half of the photos and the development detail and focus within the images.

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Week 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Schedule and tasks

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Remember…each task requires a new blog post! Keep your blog posts visual!

Week 3

Lesson 1

  • Homework check in, upload and explanation of homework 2
  • Camera Skills : Looking at the exposure triangle
  • Camera Skills :Exploring exposure

Lesson 2

  • Theory, concept and history : Typologies
  • Photoshop Skills : looking at tone / contrast :what is it? Why is essential to photography? How do we create tone and contrast on Photoshop? What is high key vs low key?
  • Ansel Adams Zone system : include a diagram, examples and compare your original image to your edit.

Lesson 3

  • Camera Skills : shutter speeds > creating a sense of movement and capturing action
  • Photoshop skills : cropping and making a selection, free transform, colour overlays and blending

Lesson 4

  • Camera Skills : Depth of field and focus points / focal length + exposure compensation
  • Photoshop skills : double exposures and blurring to create depth

Week 4 

Lesson 1, 2, 3, 4

Week 5

Lesson 1 and 2

  • think about : making image selections…working towards a final presentation
  • think about : blog layout and design features + action plans
  • Check : homework progress…looking at texture and surface
  • Create blog post : analysis and interpretation / Robert Frank…use of key vocab
  • Create blog post : Keld Helmer Peterson analysis and response : include your original 4 x images : Use Threshold Adjustment : Add screen shots : Square Format : Grid of 4 : Upload to your blog post and print out ! remember to add CATEGORIES
  • Click on this link for more…
  • https://www.creativereview.co.uk/black-noise-by-keld-helmer-petersen/

Lesson 3 and 4

Mr Cole will be on residential with D of E students on Wednesday and Thursday…so you will be expected to complete current / outstanding blog posts and publish for tracking and assessment. Miss Hearn will be available on Thursday and Friday. Mr Cole will be available on Friday too.

We expect you to use this time wisely and upload all incomplete blog posts…remember, the homework tasks are NOT optional and form the spine of your coursework ie your photo-shoots!

Week 6 + 7

  • this week your focus is on colour and is linked to your homework task. Look at the stimulus material below to help you develop your ideas and incorporate colour.
  • you should be in a position now to make your final selections : choose a range of your best images  that you would like to present and evaluate / critique
  • REMEMBER…WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT THE FORMAL ELEMENTS AND ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY…THIS SHOULD BE CLEAR IN YOUR WORK
  • your choices may be in the form of a single image, a two-frame image, a triptych, a grid or another idea…
  • you must include edits and original images…always show your process including screenshots
  • aim to narrow down your selection to 3, 4 or 5 choices…
  • Then finally…choose 1 image
  • Compare and contrast your final choice of image to a photographer (s) and create a case study including analysis of a key image by your choice of photographer
  • BLOG POSTS : take care with your presentation and include hyperlinks to helpful artciles / websites and embed relevant videos too…
  • Extension : see tracking sheet below

Exploring colour

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Shutter Speed

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Shutter speed is the amount of time that the shutter is open for. Whilst the shutter is open light is being let into the camera to make a still image.  The shutter speed can be changed depending on the light quality in the scene, it can also be changed to create different artistic effects. Shutter speed is measured in fractions of a second, the smaller the fraction the faster the shutter speed. I took the two images above using different shutter speeds to show how it can be used in different situations. A fast shutter speed is useful for capturing moving objects as a frozen image, for example this water splash happened quickly therefore a fast shutter speed was needed to freeze the moment in time. A slow shutter speed can be used to enhance motion, for example in this image on the right I shook the camera creating a distorted effect.