FINAL OUTCOME 1 This is one of my favorite outcomes because of the composition of the image. I love how the two trees are placed perfectly beside each other and i’m also fond of the angle I used when picturing this landscape. I tried to get both trees into the frame and allow the viewer to empathize with the depth of field. After the shoot, I placed the images within Photoshop and leveled them to my preference. I increased the contrast so that the trees would look silhouetted and enhanced the vibrancy of the image to bring out the colors in the sky. FINAL OUTCOMES 2 This is one of my favorite outcomes because of the elements within the photo. I absolutely love the rays of sunshine that pop out from behind the clouds. I leveled this image in Photoshop so that the sun rays would appear more intense and so that the silhouette of the trees and landscape would contrast against the bold colours of the sky. I increased the contrast and the vibrancy of the image which helped with the boldness of the image also. FINAL OUTCOME 4 This is one of my favourite outcomes again because of the elements that appear within the sky. The sky within these similar images create a really romantic atmosphere which fits in with the theme of romanticism. I again leveled this image in Photoshop so that the colours in the sky would pop and so that there would be a clear contrast in colours. I also love again the angle of which I took this photograph at; from a lower angle which makes the trees appear strong and powerful making a mysterious, intriguing image. FINAL OUTCOME 5 This is one of my favourite outcomes within the landscape shoot because of the manual focus technique that I used when shooting. I managed to focus the one, blue flower that was stood among green grass into the foreground so that I could emphasis again, the contrast in colours. I made the background out of focus since it includes man-made items. I almost wanted to create a message of the beauty of nature and the bleakness of man-made scenery.
Aperture: Refers to the opening of a lens’s diaphragm through which light passes. It is calibrated in f/stops and it generally written as numbers such as 1.2, 2,8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11.
Depth of Field: The distance between the closest and farthest objects in a photo that appears acceptably sharp. Now your camera can only focus sharply at one point. But the transition from sharp to unsharp is gradual. The depth of field can be calculated based on focal length, distance to subject, the acceptable circle of confusion size, and aperture.
This is one of my favorite outcomes because of the composition of the image. The object is placed directly in front of the camera at a face-on angle but also from a little bit below. I also enjoy the manual focus of this image; the frame is in focus and looks extremely clear yet the background is out of focus and makes the frame appear stronger. The background also compliments this image because of its scenery. This is another one of my favorite outcomes because of its switch in focus. I enjoy how the foreground (the subject’s hand) is out of focus whereas the background which is actually the focal point, since it is math related, is in focus. This is my last favorite out come because of the different elements in which the camera focused on. I manually focused onto the ruler so the numbers would be clear and stand out and this worked perfectly. It’s as though the focus becomes less clear as you look down the ruler which to me creates an intriguing image.
Most Friday’s we focus on camera techniques and on this specific day we focused on ‘focus‘ and ‘depth of field’. Using a DSLR camera we played around with the focus of an object, thus manipulating its depth of field, and the switch over between shallow and deep focus. Deep focus is when the object in the image is entirely focused on, shallow focus is when the background of an image is in focus but the object in the foreground is out of focus. The images above are my attempts at both. I did this by using manual focus.
CONCEPTUAL: As mentioned before contextually, Newman set out to make Krupp look like the devil since his crimes and morals were devastating. The use of dark lighting and colour casting powerfully displays him this way. The expression on Krupp’s face and the position his hands are in is almost stereotypical of a villain. The way he his also elevated and revealed in the foreground also emphases the idea of Krupp being the devil and shows that he was of high authority and powerful; just as the devil is. Newman also built up and used a range of techniques to clearly show the background and the history/intentions that Krupp had.
