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Depth Of Field

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By changing the aperture in the lens, you can make the resulting picture have more of the picture in focus from near to far, or you can limit the picture’s focus in one place.

  • At ƒ1.8, the focus point will be much more defined with things in front of and behind the subject becoming softer looking further from the subject they are. This is a very nice way to bring attention to the subject.
  • At ƒ22, the focus will seem to be sharp from very close to the camera to pretty much infinity. This is great for giving a sense of the place you shot the image, or for including many people in the image and keeping everyone clearly in focus.
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Adobe Bridge – Basic Image Adjustments

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Adobe Bridge allows the user to quickly edit photos without the use of Photoshop, I’ll explain the functions and features of the process below.

After choosing you desired photo, left click and select “Open In Raw Camera”.
In the top right corner there is a histogram; a common way for adjusting an image is to spread out the pixel values more evenly from left to right on the histogram, instead of having them bunched up at one end or the other.
You can use the sliders to quickly adjust the different characteristic of the photograph, you can also manipulate the shape of the histogram – which corresponds to the different sliders. When you’re finished, simple press ‘save’.

 

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Zone System

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The zone system is a technique formulated in the 1930s.

Benefits of Utilizing the Zone System

  • Capturing a correct exposure every time, even in the trickiest light or scene situations.
  • Having a precise evaluation of your scene’s tones and dynamic range prior to even making a shot.
  • Knowing when you need to use graduated neutral density filters.
  • Knowing exactly how far apart to take exposure bracketed shots for later blending.
  • Determining the situations where you need to use a fill flash to get a correct exposure.

Taking inspiration off of Ansel Adams, I tried to I incorporate all the different tones, from the darkest to the lightest, to make the photograph more interesting. The darkest point of the photograph is the middle towards the front of the photograph, showing black, whereas the lightest point is the top of the creased paper facing the natural light.

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Typologies

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What is typology?

Typologies. Typology is the study of types, and a photographic typology is a suite of images or related forms, shot in a consistent, repetitive manner.

For my new photography project two I will go more in depth about typologies artists . typolog to me is a way of expressing and journalism of many topic project of person you want To discover more about.A technique I see a lot if the gradual movement in order to observe and capture every angle to relate to a person and reflect the person in which they are living themselves.

Many examples are more reflected around line and person of people and differences and development of architecture. Throughout the modern era, photography has been enlisted to classify the world and its people. Driven by a belief in the scientific objectivity of photographic evidence, this is everything that can be captured within typology. The logics utilized to classify photographs-in groups and categories or sequences of identically organized images-also shape our visual consciousness.

Typology is a lesson that is revolved throughout a short series and is designed to encourage consideration of how photography  can be developed and employed.It portrays the cameras ability to make a cultural  human record of gradual development  and accurately demonstrate a visual phenomena that the artist is seeking to portray to the world.It is also a systematic documentary  of journalism of life and how the world develops and changes gradually, the photographer   are used almost as a tool to witness and clarify evidence together in one place within one format. This is typological and a clear interpretation of the things surrounding yourself and others.
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Ansel Adams and development of light and About

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About

Ansel Easton Adams was born in February 20th 1902 and passed on April 22nd 1984,Adams was a highly influential American photogrhper  and also an environmentalist which you can see throughout his very nature based images.He is most famous for his black and white landscapes he would hike and take in the American west, these are now widely produced as calendars and see  through the Internet.Adams is probably most famous for his discovery and invention of ‘the zone system’ this is a way In which to determine proper exposure and how to adjust a contrast of a final print while taking the photo itself. This produces a proper exposure and a clear adjustment and depth within his character filled  photos. His work was primary on a large format camera due to this is contributed towards his sharpness within the final print.

Adams was also a founded photographers  as well known group of fellow photographers who also capture very landscape based pieces of art. Himself and his family were migrants form within England to follow a business of his fathers. He was Laos a lumberjack with is one of the persons that inspired himself to be very indulged in nature itself and preventing it to be cut down of forgotten.

His technique

His work once agin inspired his development of ‘The zone system’ this is photograph  technique to determine the optimal film exposure, it is the basis of the sensitometry  system which develops who a scene should be processed t look in its best manner and come across in the most appealing light and texture.  Adams described the Zone System as “not an invention of mine; it is a codification of the principles of sensitometry ,he is said to provide a relationship between the way a photographer is visual and the subject itself. its ids also applicable to film and also digital cameras of today time. The image below is how the tones are numbered and put into a systematic order of the development of all the colours around the image separately to create an effective composition.

An Example of his work

In this  image you can clearly see his line of frame  and all the difference within colour and tone to achieve all of the very lights to darks and accomplish a successful piece.

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photoshop; tone and contrast

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What is photoshop

This is to alter (a photographic image) digitally using image-editing software.It is done to exaggerate or dramatic change an image to connote and exaggerate a feel that wants to be expressed or brought forward to the audience. 

How I achieved and edited  my images

I achieved my images Using photoshop I wanted to developing deepening tone and texture to exaggeration depth  within the image using layers.

Firstly I started off by inserting the image into photoshop in order to deepen the saturation and develop a more grip feel and not use the colour as a distraction for the image and circulation with patterns and line within the piece itself. Using the Crop tool, you can trim edges, change the shape and size of a photo, and even straighten a crooked line  or the shape within the leaf. Furthermore  Enhanced  the quality and Brighten the photo and make its quality and highlights  pop using adjustment layers.  After layering the image ignorer to edit different aspect to then eventually flatten this image. I went onto a bast in order to move the saturation and so developing the colour to deepen the effect. I wanted to still be able to see sources of colour to not completely inveterate the colour within the leaf.I then costume the colours in a grain setting so would be able to accurately develop the colours and cancel out all the extras vibrancy that I did not want in my image. Finally I Convert color to black and white, add an old-fashioned tinted look, and play with focus using the Tilt-Shift Blur filter.

You can see the tool bars here in which I dimmed the saturation and colour to depth the image but also allowing the tone range from very black inner leaf to a progressive lighter leaf. You can also see the layers through the photo and how the custom levels about to be set to green to develop a deeper tone relevant to the piece.

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First Edit

Second edit

Third and Best Edit

Overall this images now more effective as a whole and creates  a better presence and does not direct form the image itself.It create s larger impact overall through the image and displays a larger impact of space and authority.

Tone and Contrast

Contrast is a measure of the difference in brightness between light and dark areas in a scene. This reflects a scene with significant contrast , whereas narrow lens reflect less  contrast and may appear flat or dull. This can be caused by any combination of subject matter and lighting conditions.The is a great importance due to colour will only work effectively due to a good contrast.However countless images have been seen in black and white using this is a tangible element of compostion

Tone may consist of shadings from white-to-gray-to-black, or it may consist of darks against lights with little or no grays. The use of dark areas against light areas is a common method of adding the feeling of a third dimension to a two-dimensional black-and-white picture.This is also highly significant to the tonal range within the tone system 

 

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Shutter Speed

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What is it?

While Aperture is responsible for controlling how much amount of light passes through the lens, the Shutter Speed is responsible for controlling the length of time that the light is allowed to hit the camera’s sensor.

The shutter speed controls the amount of time that the shutter curtain is left open. The shutter speed gives you control over how motion is captured in your photograph.

Shutter speeds that are faster than your moving subject will create a photograph of the moving subject in a ‘frozen’ state. The photograph will come out with the subject being very sharp, in focus and seemingly in a stopped motion. You are basically capturing a split second image of the moving subject.

If, on the other hand, your shutter speed is slower than the moving subject then you will create a blurred image of your subject which generally represents a subject in motion.

Experimenting with long shutter speed:

 

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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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