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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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ISO / Lighting

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What is ISO?

Generally, the ISO is the indication of how sensitive a camera is to the light around it.

It’s measured in numbers that are: 100, 200, 400.800 and 1600  (100 being the darkest outcome with the lowest amount of noise and 1600 being the brightest with larger amounts of noise/grain).

The lower the ISO number, the lower the sensitivity of the digital sensor to light (which means that more light needs to hit the digital sensor to get proper exposure). So, ISO 400 is twice as sensitive to light as ISO 200.

There are situations where the amount of lighting you are dealt with is not quite enough for your image. This is an indicator that you need to increase your ISO setting. Typical examples include:

  1. Low light conditions (indoors). In this case, the amount of natural light is not enough for your camera to get the correct exposure even with using the longest shutter speed and widest aperture without using a flash.
  2. Your subject is too far away for your camera’s flash to have any effect. To properly expose your photograph, you need to increase your ISO.
  3. Low light conditions (night). If you want to take photos at night, you will need to increase your ISO.

Experimenting With Different ISO:

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White Balance

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What is WB?

The White Balance (WB) determines how accurately the colors in your photos come out, specifically, it determines how ‘hot’ or ‘cold’ an image feels.

When do we need to adjust white balance?

Whenever you encounter a scenario where you wish to bring out certain colours or experiment with different hues and tones. Sometimes this process is automatic but not always satisfactory or pleasing to the eye.

Different types of White Balance:

Daylight

The camera adds warm tones to the sunlit subjects, it’s best for outdoor shots in normal sunlight.

Cloudy

As the name suggests, it is best used on a cloudy day, as you usually get more cool tones in the photos. This mode helps you achieve warmer tones in your photos.

Tungsten

This mode is used for light under a little bulb like tungsten, and it is often used while shooting indoors. The tungsten setting of the digital camera cools down the color temperature in photos.

Fluorescent

This mode is used for getting brighter and warmer shots while compensating for the cool shade of fluorescent light.

Shade

A shaded location generally produces cooler or bluer pictures, hence you need to warm up the surroundings while shooting shaded objects.

 

Auto

The Auto setting helps in adjusting the white balance automatically according to the different lighting conditions, but you can try other modes to get better results.

 

White Balance contact sheets:

 

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Contact Sheets

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what is a contact sheet?

A contact sheet is a piece of photographic paper on to which several or all of the negatives on a film have been contact-printed and sometimes from a film positive,or in the Morden day it is a way to represent and present all your work and development of visual inspiration to how you have found your final piece.Furthermore negatives are developed In a darkroom and exposed and developed piece of photographic film is placed on the emulsion side down, in contact with a piece of photographic paper, light is briefly shone through the negative and then the paper is developed  to reveal the final print.
This can clearly been seen here:


The defining characteristic of a contact print is that the resulting print is the same size as the original, rather than having been projected through an enlarger.A contact sheet is not to differ your image or create an illusion of the image,but display and emphasis the original images and similar.You are usually able to see a distinct choice in the paper within circles and marks of significance.  
Highly respected and influential photographers are called magnum photographers who produce beautiful contact sheets. 
Magnum Contact Sheets reveals how Magnum photographers have captured and edited their best shots from the 1930s to the present. The contact sheet, a direct print of a roll or sequence of negatives, is the photographer's first look and understanding around the scenario at what he or she has captured on film, and provides a uniquely intimate glimpse into their working process.It is more detailed and emphasise journalism within the development of a shoot and a conservation of the persons emotive reflection. It records each step on the route to arriving at an image—providing a rare behind-the-scenes sense of walking alongside the photographer and seeing through their eyes.


Contact sheets are part of the "decisive moment”it captures a specific moment within their shutter and then furthers to the oversize best capture and desire within their possible one in a million photo.
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White Balance:shoot

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For this shoot I  wanted to develop how the lighting differentiates due to the setting on a camera and changing the expose due to the light itself . So in turn changes the colour of tone between all the images.With my images I wanted to capture a light reflection and shadow coming in from a skylight, this form a large contrasting of shades as well as a reflection creating an effective piece.It also emphasis the amount of light and how each segment of light is reflected within each white balance setting .White balance  is the process of removing unrealistic color casts, so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your photo. Efficient  cameras use white balance  to take into account the “colour temperature” of a light source, which refers to the relative warmth or coolness of white light, such as seen below.

Secondly I then transported my images and edited them into a contact sheet in order to develop the more visual appealing layout also displaying the image effectively. Furthermore I save this as a Jpeg and made it into the best quality and displayed this work in the best manner suited.Lastly below you can clearly see the ways in witch to tell what setting to get the best photo from your lighting, wether its artificial or natural.

 

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White Balance and Contact Sheets

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Contact Sheets

Experimenting With White Balance

In order to produce this contact sheet I…

1)  Took the photos, experimenting with the white balance tool on the camera.

2) Selected the successful photographs that I wanted.

3) Added the images to Adobe Bridge and selected them all.

4) Transferred these images from Bridge to Photoshop in the form of a contact sheet.

5) Then i cropped the contact sheet in Photoshop and saved them as a JPEG image.

A contact sheet is a range of photos within one image, spread out in order.

They’re used in order to select out the best and worse photographs from a photo shoot.

From having it you are able to pick out what photos are better that others as it is easy to compare photographs when they’re all compiled into one sheet.

 

 

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White Balance Photoshoot

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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.

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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.