Favourite Outcome

AF/MF, Focal Length and Depth of Field    – Contact Sheet

AF/MF, Focal Length and Depth of Field   – Favourite images

What is ISO?

ISO controls the brightness of your photos and controls the cameras sensitivity to light. Put simply, it will lighten or darken your photos. As you increase your ISO, your cameras sensitivity will increase and therefore photos brightness will increase.

Advantages

It means you could have more flexibility in your aperture and shutter speed settings. For example, if you’re indoors with poor lighting and you’re photographing a sports even where people are moving fast, then you would be able to use a fast shutter speed without the photo being under exposed.

Disadvantages

When using high ISO you can start to get more grain/noise.

Threshold Experiment

Keld Helmer-Petersen:

• Started taking photographs in 1938 when he got a camera as a graduation present.
• Interested in German inter-war photography and the new objectivity movement.
• inspired by Albert Renger-Patzsch.
• 1948 – Published 122 Colour Photographs. 
• Began to experiment with the contrast in graphic black and white expression influenced by constructivist artists and their fascination with industry’s machines.
• Pushed limits of the media
• Throughout his career he worked with “cameraless” photography (a darkroom technique in which objects are placed directly on light-sensitive photographic paper).

Original images:

Editing Process:

Edited Images:

Mirroring

Original Image

Editing Process

Final Image

White Balance Experiment – Inside

Camera settings – 1/25, f5.6, ISO 400

WB – Sunlight setting

WB – Shade Setting

WB – Cloud Setting

WB – Tungsten light setting

WB – white fluorescent light

White Balance Experiment – Outside

Camera Settings – 1/1000, f5.6, ISO 400

WB – Auto

WB – Sunlight setting

WB – Shade setting

WB – Tungsten Light setting

Standard lens – Contact Sheet

Standard Lens –  Favourite Outcomes

Telephoto Lens – Contact Sheet

Telephoto Lens – Favourite Outcomes

Portrait Lens – Contact Sheet

Portrait Lens – Favourite Outcomes

I really enjoyed using the standard lens as it was easy to focus however I believe the Telephoto lens ended up getting the best photographs.

Claude Cahun X Clare Rae

I enjoyed the work of Clare Rae and Claude Cahun very much as I enjoyed seeing the surrealist nature of Claude Cahun’s work And how Clare Rae managed to interpret her work and gain inspiration to carry out her response. Clare Rae focused more on Claude Cahun’s earlier work about Man with nature and man with man made objects.  Clare Rae and Claude Cahun both have put their pictures in black and white and are both the main subjects of the photograph, whilst maybe someone else is taking the photographs. Both their work likes to feature contrasting tones of light and dark.

Claude Cahun in this photo is far away from the camera itself and facing away from it also. She here I believe is trying not to draw too much attention away from the surroundings and the structures in the photos. The walls at the edges in the photos creates a claustrophobic feeling which could be Claude Cahun’s way of expressing her feelings towards those who were at the time maybe being shunned for their sexuality.

Similarly, here, Clare Rae keeps her head down and not looking at the camera. She also focuses on the architecture around her and the  texture and shapes of the walls. Rather than this feeling claustrophobic, it’s feels comforting as she’s almost cocooned by the walls. However the ways she sits is awkward which could be a take on the ways Claude Cahun also used her body.

Why did I reject the ones I did?

I didn’t like the lighting in the one with me holding the paper and the one in the geometric shape. I also didn’t like how the light was coming in from the window in one of the photos. I didn’t like the background being featured in the one with the shapes cut out of the paper.

Examples of Contact Sheets

KEY:

Red X – Unwanted Photograph

Red Circle – Lighting Issue

Blue Scribbles – Unwanted things in the background (mise en scene issue)

Large Green Box – Wanted image

Small Green Box – Want everything within square