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Homework 3 ( Ernst Haas )

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Ernst Haas

Ernst Haas was a photojournalist and a pioneering color photographer. During his 40-year career, the Austrian-born artist bridged the gap between photojournalism and the use of photography as a medium for expression and creativity. Ernst has a great vision in exploring photography in a more creative and unrealistic way than we actually see things in real life. Using various camera setting like shutter speed Ernst captures great visuals of urban environments, capturing the explosive and rushed vibes within these areas. He does this by producing many images containing motion blurs.

Haas was an early innovator in color photography. His images were widely spread by magazines like Life and Vogue and, in 1962, were the subject of the first single-artist exhibition of color photography at New York’s Modern museum of art. His book The Creation (1971) was one of the most successful photography books ever, selling 350,000 copies.

My Photo shoot Plan

In my photo shoot I intend to use a slow shutter speed in order to capture abstract images which are serial, like Ernst’s are. It appears that he uses mainly natural lighting for his photographs therefore as will I and the location of my shoot will be in a woodland area, where I can capture the feeling within and among the trees. This is similar to Ernst’s photography where he captures the atmosphere in the city, amongst buildings however I am going to take a different approach by expressing the feelings found within a woodland area.

Contact Sheet of Photo shoot

Edits

 

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Overlays – Photoshop

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Overlays such as these, help bring out certain colours or aspects of a photograph. When combined with a black and white filter they enhance a particular colour that wouldn’t be visible otherwise.

Start by inserting your photo and duplicating the layer.
Select a desired colour and, using the rectangle tool, create a square.
Using free transform in Edit>Free Transform Path or using Ctrl+T rotate the square and apply.
OPTIONAL: hide the shape layer and go to image>adjustments>black&white and then adjust the brightness and contrast in the same settings
Using the opacity and blending options adjust the visibility and type to your liking.

Side By Side Before vs After Image 

 

I like the outcome of this photo, the addition of colour creates an aesthetically pleasing effect. It also gives the image more life; the black and white background feels much more lively and unique.

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Becher Inspired Photoshoot

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What is a typology? 

Typology is the study of types, however in photography a typology is a series of images, in which the photographer has taken many of the same genre of object (buildings, pencils etc), using roughly the same composition for each one creating that scenes of repetition about them.

Bernd And Hilla Becher

Both these Photographers were German based, and were commissioned by the government to produces typologies of specific types of buildings, as seen below.

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These Photographers would go around the country taking the same composition of certain objects, which when one was taken would not look that impressive, but rather when hundreds were taken precisely from the same distance, and combined together, it creates an almost artistic creation

In response to this I decided I would walk around my home area and try to incorporate this style into my images, I chose the themes around car lights, windows with chimneys, and doors. These were some of my results:



 I decided that the car topology sheets worked the best, due to the contrast between the lights and the bonnets of the car which came in different shapes.
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Focal Length

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What is focal length?

The focal length of the lens is the distance between the lens and the image sensor, when the subject is in focus, usually stated in millimeters (e.g., 28 mm, 50 mm, or 100 mm). In the case of zoom lenses, both the minimum and maximum focal lengths are stated, for example 18–55 mm. Changing the focal length changes the angle of view. The shorter the focal length (e.g. 18 mm), the wider the angle of view and the greater the area captured. The longer the focal length (e.g. 55 mm), the smaller the angle and the larger the subject appears to be.


I tried having a go with this concept, by focusing firstly on the backdrop rather than the central figure, and then on the figure rather than the backdrop.

In this image I chose to focus purely on the backdrop of the trees rather than the character within, as an experiment with my cameras focal length.


This image however I chose to focus on the closer object to the lens, which happened to be a bee on a flower, therefore blurring out the backdrop rather than keeping it clear.
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Bokeh

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Bokeh comes from the Japanese word ‘boke’ (ボケ), which means “blur” or “haze”. Bokeh is also defined as “the effect of a soft out-of-focus background that you get when shooting a subject, using a fast lens, at the widest aperture, such as f/2.8 or wider.”

Simply put, bokeh is the pleasing or aesthetic aspect of the blur in a photograph.

Bokeh can add softness to an otherwise brightly lit photograph. Using this technique to separate your subject from the background can also allow you to utilize a not-so-photogenic background in your image (but because of its diffused blur, it helps to “highlight” the subject, not detract from it).

Experimenting with Bokeh:

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Focal Length And Focusing

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What is focal length?

Focal Length means how much the image is apparently magnified (or not) when you take a picture.

Choosing the Correct Focal Length for Different Situations:
  • Landscape photography (10mm to 18mm)
  • Full body portrait of a person (24 to 45mm)
  • Headshot (55 to 140mm)
  • Night photography (10 to 18mm)
  • Close-up photography or macro photography (70 to 150mm)
  • Wildlife photography (200mm to 850mm)
  • General lens for shooting family and kids (35 to 90mm)
  • Outdoor sports photography (200 to 400mm)

The focal length of your lens essentially determines how zoomed in your photos are. The higher the number, the more zoomed your lens will be. The focal length measurement also tells the photographer what the angle of view will be. The angle of view means how wide of an area is visible in the picture.

The focal length scale shows that this lens can go as wide as 10mm and as long as 24mm (zoomed in). In the picture, it is set at 18mm.  almost all lenses have a scale like this on them.
Why is Depth of Field important?

When you are shooting, Depth of Field can play a large factor in how your image will be rendered and can change the meaning and intention of the image. You can choose to selectively isolate a subject from its background by having a narrow Depth of Field or alternatively you can make sure that everything from the foreground to infinity will be in focus, ensuring you have a sharp image throughout your image.

One of the most obvious factors to controlling Depth of Field is the aperture. When you have a smaller aperture (larger number) you will have a wide Depth of Field. In this instant, you will have a greater distance between the closest and furthest points in an image.

When you have a larger aperture (smaller number) you will have a narrower Depth of Field. The blurry parts that are not in focus are called Bokeh, and many people are quite a fan of the way it will render light.

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Focus and Focus points

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How do we focus?

In order to demonstrator a sharpness to an image,and allow and intention to focus and not. The works also together in order to change the distance of lenses,from the sensor and or the filming order to control the way in which light is captured.This is also done by how the light coverage’s precisely a point within the plane of the film or a  DSLR sensor,this means the image will become more in focus .

when looking through a viewfinder of any DSLR camera and you will see several dots, or squares, that represent individual points at which the camera is capable of focusing. This is in order to clearly view the focusing points ,even if this might seem obvious.  but not all of them are created equal. When you press the shutter button  halfway, some of these points will light up, indicating that everything at that specific spot is crystal clear and your photo will be nice and sharp.

this is an example of cross focus points to hep with ensuring the positioning of the camera.

However, the speed at which your camera can focus on one of the points, as well as how accurate the focus will be, depends greatly on whether the individual focusing point is a single or cross-type. Understanding the differences in how they operate can help you decide which ones to use to take better photos.This is a further example :

there are also many ranges within focus points,this can develop  of change the point within your camera with a button,and will be brought up upon the screen,showing the range of points.

below you can see my development of capturing the same focus point within a dogs face too.

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colour overlay and blur Photoshop

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Within this piece I wanted to cut out two identical pieces and use this in order to develop an overlay and deepening of color over the highlights and cut out on the wall itself. I used red to contrast to the lighter blue tones of the underlay of the original image. I duplicated these layers and images so again the red is more significant and you can see this development throughout these images.

Blur Photoshop
I edited  this image within layering and adding a blur layers then went back into this piece. Within the first layer I used a rubber and the brackets to differentiate how big and small I want the rubber to be,again creates a depth of field of how I want the front to be. I focused on detail and have successful aspects of realism and only the back to so blurred which creates contrast. Then further edited this image in order to show better color such as darker tones to again exaggerate the image itself and not be distracted by off coloring’s creating a Batter finished effect.

Here you can see my method of developing the color overlay,finally you duplicate the layer and attach the specific shape and placing that you feel would be the most effective,The throughout the half circle you can develop the colors and development of the square and further the potion and add additional shapes to deb then the color.

And to achieve the blur photo I Opened Photoshop then Duplicated the Layer added Mask Layer –,after this I added an additional Filter going to Blur then  Motion Blur –and finally Then selected how blurred I wanted the image to be ,then to take away and add more reinvent I  Selected the Eraser tool and followed to  Erase the section that I don’t to be in focus ,producing the final image.