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Experimenting With Shutter-Speed
What is shutter-speed Shutter speed (also known exposure time), stands for the length of time a camera shutter is open to expose light into the camera sensor. The faster the shutter speed, the easier it is to help freeze action completely, as seen by the picture of two birds.However if the shutter speed is slow, it can create an effect called motion blur, where moving objects appear blurred along the direction of the motion, and can be used in things like advertisements for cars, motorbikes and nature, as seen below of the water.
I experimented myself with this blurred effect within school and this was the outcome:
I later tried using a long shutter speed at night on the road, to capture the lights of cars to a greater affect, and really produce a contrast between the darkness and the light. These were my outcomes:
Homework-1
I have taken inspiration from Jerry Reed and Jaroslav Rössler as they show lines, repetition and tones effectively. I used folded and cut paper to create shadows and effects like them.
I chose my favourite photo from the photoshoot:
I especially like this photograph out of the shoot as i think it demonstrates shadow, line and repetition well. I cut the piece of paper into strips to show repetition and bent it to create edges to show shadows and tones. This photo is a good demonstration of Ansel Adams zone system. The middle right area has the darkest tones of grey and the bent paper at the top is the lightest as the natural light is coming in from the left side. I arranged the strips purposely in an uneven way to make the photograph more interesting to look at. The way it is arranged could be interpreted as resembling a mountain because of the irregular heights at which the pieces of paper are placed. The focus point of the photograph are the creases of the paper, that being the main subject of the photo. The photo gradually becomes more out of focus towards the outsides of the photo and the right middle side is so out of focus that it is blurred so you cannot see where the paper ends.
Exploring Tone and Contrast
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.
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.
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.
Brett Weston Inspired Photoshoot
formalism, artists and shoot
White Balance Photoshoot
What Is White Balance?
At it’s simplest white balance is adjusted to get the colors in your images as accurate as possible. If it is not adjusted to suit the environment, images will appear too warm or cool. This will result in highly blue or orange photographs.
Here are the images in which I took around school came out.
- To produce this contact sheet I used adobe bridge and Photoshop.
- I then selected all the images in which I intended to use for the contact sheet in adobe bridge.
- After having selected the images I clicked on tools and then dropped down on the ‘Photoshop’ option and clicked contact sheet II.
A contact sheet is a piece of photographic paper on to which several or all of the pictures in a shoot have been spread out.
We use contact sheets to easily pick out and select the best and worst images from a photo shoot and simply display all the photos in which one has taken.
After having created a contact sheet we select our best images and then edit them accordingly.
