Chiaroscuro– Chiaroscuro means light and dark in Italian. It is the transition between light and dark ,the chiaroscuro lighting technique can be defined simply as high contrast lighting. You use the extremes of dark and light to create an arresting image. It can be used in colour or black and white photography.
These are some examples I got of the internet. This way of taking photos was invented by Lucas Cranach or as some believe Leonardo de Vinci. These are examples of how it can look.
This is one of my attempt of split lighting and this is the original image before I edited it.
This one of the edited versions I put this one in black and white and increased the highlight and the shadows I also increased the exposure.
This is another version I edited I cropped this and increased the shadows and removed some of the texture on her skin.
These are my comparisons from before and after editing them.
This photo is my favourite one and one of the only ones I have edited but these are some of the other photos I took.
Environmental portraiture-An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject’s usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings. The term is most frequently used of a genre of photography.
Technical-This photo is taken in natural lighting, you can see the sunlight shining on the cow. The direction of light is coming through the top that is creating shadows on the opposite side. The man is almost central to the composition.
The blue stands out from the brown background with it being on his overalls and on the milk bottle. The shadows are dark but the sun is creating highlights in the image. The hay and the cow have a slightly rough texture but the milk bottle and the walls have a smoother texture which creates a contrast. The natural items have curved line whether as the man made items are more straight lines. A sense of depth is created by the diagonal lines and this gives an illusion of space.
the concept of this image is to highlight the tradition of dairy farming in jersey. The Jersey breed of dairy cow originates from the Island and is quite distinct from all other breeds. Renowned for its beauty, ease of management and natural ability to produce rich creamy milk, the Jersey cow is a product of the Island, its soil and climate, the people and their history. Jersey milk is prized among dairy farmers everywhere because of its superior properties, with herds to be found in the UK and around the world.
August sander-
One of the first photographic typological studies was by the German photographer August Sander , whose epic project ‘people of the 20th century'(40,000 negatives were destroyed during WWII and in a fire) produced volume of portraits entitled ‘The Face of Our Time’ in 1929. Sander categorised his portraits according to their profession and social class.
Sander’s methodical, disciplined approach to photographing the world has had an enormous influence on later photographers, notably Bernd and Hilla Becher.
This is an example of some of the photos Bernd and Hilla Becher have taken after being influenced.
This approach can also be seen in the work of their students Thomas Struth and Thomas Ruff. Other photographers who have explored this idea include Stephan Shore , Gillian Wearing , Nicholas Nixon , Martina Mullaney and Ari Versluis.
This photo was taken by Nicholas Nixon.
This is Ari Versluis’ version of Typology.
This is taken by one of Bernd and Hilla’s Students called Thomas Ruff.
Typology is a type of photograph which had its ultimate roots in August Sander’s series of portraits in 1929, titled “Face Of Our Time”. The term ‘Typology’ was first used to describe a style of photography when Bernd and Hila Becher began documenting old and broken down German industrial architecture in 1959.
These are my photos editing. I cropped them both and put one in black and white. In the first photo I increased the highlights and cropped the image to be more central. I did the same for both sets of photos.
ISO-ISO is a number that represents how sensitive your camera sensor is to light. The higher the ISO number, the higher your camera’s sensitivity, and the less light you need to take a picture. The trade-off is that higher ISOs can lead to degraded image quality and cause your photos to be grainy or ‘noisy.
This photo is shot with using a high ISO you can tell by the the quality is clear and there is no noise in the background. I also made use of shutter speed which allowed more light to enter the camera making the subject more easily viable which reduces noise.
This photo used shutter speed to give a clear photo without using ISO.
This photo was taken in less light so we used a lower ISO to make the subject more visible and exposed.
This photo was shot with a low ISO. You can see this by the quality of the photo as it appears kind of grainy.
This is all my ISO photos I have selected my favourites by flagging them which I can the put a flagging filter on meaning I can separate my favourites from the others so I can focus on my better photos.
This is how I put the flagged filter.
These are my selected photos.This is the original of the photo I have chosen to edit.This is the edited version. On the right side is the features I used to edit it and what I did to it some of the things I changed was the shadows I made them more noticeable and darker.
Shutter speed is the speed at which the shutter of the camera closes. A fast shutter speed creates a shorter exposure and controls the amount of light the camera takes in and a slow shutter speed gives the photographer a longer exposure.
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge is remembered today for his pioneering photographic studies of motion, which ultimately led to the development of cinema. He was hired to photograph a horse’s movement to prove that a horse’s hooves are clear of the ground at a trot.
To take these clear shots of a moving horse he used a high shutter speed to capture the act. Shutter speed is the amount of time that the shutter is open and how much light it is exposed too.. A fast shutter speed creates a shorter exposure ,the amount of light the camera takes in and a slow shutter speed gives the photographer a longer exposure.
This is a photo I took with a high shutter speed. This is a torch being moved in a shape of a star.
This is a photo i took with a low shutter speed you can tell as it is quite blurry and not a clear image.
The aperture controls the amount of light that enters through iris in the lens and is measured in f/stop ,you can adjust this by changing said f/stops.
Depth of field is defined as what is in focus in front and behind the subject, shallow depth in field has limited things in focus often with a blurred background this requires f/stop or f/2 or f/4 depth of field is defined by aperture the higher the number the more in focus an example of this would be f/16 or f/22
As seen here the aperture is f/2.8 meaning the depth
