Hill view

When resiting Matlock for the day i took my camera along , and when walking around matlock is surrounded by high hills and in them hills is some lovely big houses which some modern but mainly old full of character and the setting around them i thought would make all together a great picture .

 

 

 

The first 3 pictures came out completely out of focus however i did like the position of the picture and how much of the hills and houses you could see and the angle of the picture.

  After getting the camera into focus and changing the F5.6 to F7.5 i took the first picture all though i liked the position of the picture i wanted more of the front house into the picture and less of the trees behind but enough so that could still see the background.

After slightly moving down i got the picture which i was after more of the front house but also wanted the main object of the picture to be the middle bigger house but also have the background in the photograph as well overall i think the picture turned out well , if i was to make any changed editing wise after it would be to have a bit more light in the picture .But this could be altered later on in a editing program such as photoshop and lightroom. Furthermore if i was to go back i would concentrate more on the house in the middle and maybe try and have only that house in focus and the rest of the picture out of it .

Woodlands

 When choosing my own genre or subject for pictures i wanted to take some pictures in a woodlands area capturing the scenery with different angles and using the different natural lights.

 

 

 

The first couple of pictures i walked up so i was on high ground and able to look down into the woodlands i took these two pictures from slightly different angles in which captured different lights .The first picture is from more of a right angle and captures the sun light coming through the trees in the left off the picture i think this is really effective and works well as the right side of the picture is darker.

 

 The second picture i moved further forward and was stood more central doing this only a slight bit of sunlight in coming through on the left of the picture , because of the lack of light the picture would of been to dark so in order to add a Little i used flash when took the picture.

I also wanted to capture a picture looking upwards and seeing the height of the trees and the light beaming through them , after finding a spot i layed down and pointed the camera at a angle looking up ,i really like this picture and how the sun is not to over powering but effective enough to give light shadows onto parts of the trees.

 

I next wanted to experiment with focus in my pictures and also depth of filed in capturing some objects in the picture closer to the camera than others. I found a part of the forest which i thought this would work really well with having the branches at the for front of the picture and then the rocks in the background.

When i first took the picture the focus was completely out and instead of the leafs being in focus the whole picture was out of focus . After changing the F from F6.3 to F5.3 the focus was a lot better and worked really well with the next two  picture.

Final pictures

   These pictures are the once that i have picked for my final pictures , the reason for these being picked is because they are the strongest out of them all , in particular the picture which stands out for me out of them all would be from the editorial section and the photo of the plastic hearts with the continence of which can damage, i really love the angle of this photo and how not everything is in focus i think the picture works really well.

 

Architecture

Architectural photography is photographs taken of buildings , in which photographers use different techniques and specialised equipment. One of the techniques commonly used is controlled perspective using the vertical lines and parrelle this is achieved by having the camera focal plane of perpendicular to the ground.This done by tilt/shift lenses.

In lesson we was set the task of going around the uni campus and taking pictures of the building , i experimented with using a different lens to take these pictures with ,lens that  the lens i chose to use was the fish eye lens which is a wide angle lens that produces a visual distortion.

After 3 shots and looking at the pictures after seeing that they was far to bright after sorting this issue out the next 3 pictures which looked really effective in the fish eye angle style.

These 3 pictures i chose to take round the side of the building , this middle picture is taken at the bottom of some stairs i wanted to get the winding effect they had however because the lighting was to bright it did not come out as i planned if i was to re take this picture the changes i would make would to change the brightness and contrast and also to be stood further back in order to get more of the stairs in the picture.

 Again this is taken from the side of the building but the fish eye lens gives the effect of making the wall look longer because you can not see the end point of the wall ,however again the brightness in the picture is to much and takes over the picture.

ISO 400 F2.8 exposure manual focal length 5.0mm

After making these altercations and changing the aperture and brightness , the picture came out a lot better and can see the building clearly , also by moving closer the tighter angle is a lot better and the lens gives the effect of the pole bending on the far left.

F5.6 ISO 400

After taking a picture from the bottom of the stairs i decided to try and take a picture from behind and a long distance angle in order to get both the side window and the back of the steps into the photo.

Out of all the pictures i  took with the fish eye lens  this is the one i like best , i wanted to get the whole of the building into the picture in order to do this with the fish eye was to take it from a low angle and the lens creates the abstract look to the picture as well.

 

 

 

 

Press and Publicity

Press and publicity -

Press and publicity is a big aspect in photography , it is basically showing people showing something for example could be used for a company or websites , another form of advertising a product or a event or just showing where someone famous was on a night out.



One key aspect of this is always needing the permission to take pictures of who ever is in them if under the age of 16



For these pictures i was using a Nikon D200 camera , these first couple of pictures was more experimental and getting used to how was framing the pictures to show both the people in them and what they are doing clearly in the photographs.

F16 ISO1600 exposure manual focal length 35.0 and then focal lengh for the second picture 34.0 , both of these pictures came out far to exposed and therefore one of the people was to bright.

 On the 3rd attempt through moving angle and capturing the light rightly and then both people in the picture are clear to see , and can see a demonstration , this image could be used for a magazine or a leaflet on photography or even for a university showing a teacher student relationship

F16 ISO1600 focal 55 aperture 4.0m

 

 

 

 

 

 

 These next set of photos we got more experimental and decide to move over to the reception area with the idea of these pictures being on a poster or leaflet as publicity for the university showing again a student and a staff member, connoting and showing how helpful the staff are.

F10 ISO1600 manual focus lengh 18m lens

The first picture that i took was far to dark and could only barely see the outlines and shadows of the people in the picture was not going to work for a picture which the people in the picture was the main purpose of the picture , for the second picture i decided to use the flash when taking the picture and this made all the difference while using the same camera settings as the before picture but coming out with a much better effect with the extra light in the picture. However after uploading the picture onto the computer and seeing it bigger the key changes would of made would of been the positioning of the people in the picture and perhaps a closer angle so could see facial expressions a lot clearer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two different angles which experimented with was a close up almost over the shoulder for the first picture looking over the students shoulder and down at the staff member , while i like this picture for a press and publicity type i thought was better to at least see some of the other persons face and that a over the shoulder picture would not work for advertising as well.

F5.6 ISO1600 exposure manual focal lengh 24.0

 

Editorial photography

Editorial photography is all photography for magazines /newspapers which isn't advertisement (non commercial) for example could be photography to go with a article or even the front cover of the magazine .

while editorial gives a lot more freedom than commercial  photography there is still certain aspects to it which is key techniques , such as there being certain sixes and should always usually be 200 pixes per square inch. Also usually the file type is always jpeg and not raw furthermore the quality of the picture should always be top notch as its being published in a magazine /newspaper.


A learning activity which we was set in lesson was to go around the uni building and look at the end of year final show photography work and take pictures, but take pictures as if they was going into a magazine ,also thinking about how the photographs may look in the magazine and how would be shot.


when taking the pictures i had a idea in my head of a magazine cover and how i would set out the pictures in order to think of how i would want the pictures to be taken. 

When got to this exhibit seeing how the birds was placed out i thought this image would work better as the main image on the front of the magazine as the background picture that the title and etc was written over , this is mind i wanted a wide angle shot in order to include 4 of the birds and to position my self so that the picture shows both a front of a bird , behind and side but also including what the birds was fighting over.

This photo would be a side photo much smaller on the cover , with this in mind i wanted not only just the work but the artist information book included into the picture , next to this could be some kind of text explaining that can see this work more in detail inside.

This is my favourite of the images of the clever work , where in each individual plastic heart was elements which could cause the heart problems , as there was a lot of these in a row instead of taking a standard frontal picture getting them in a line going across i wanted to get them from the side some in focus and some not and i think this picture would work well as the centre image on the magazines cover.

Like the above picture i decided to take the picture from the side rather than front as just gives a different perspective to the pictures.

 These to images was just basic frontal position angle  with the main focus being on the middle objects in the picture as that is where the eye is most likely to look first.

 

 

This is a mock up magazine cover that i have experimented with and chose the picture i liked best and tryed out the idea i had when first took picture and i feel it works well with the angle of the picture.

 

 

Abstract photography

Abstract photography

Abstract photography is where the subject of the picture is shot in a close up angle in order that can see a patten or a shape which would not normally be able to see in such detail , furthermore usually the subject in abstract photography is usually not recognisable because of the  closeness of the shot.

Before looking into this i had only ever heard of abstract art and thought it was work which was always a little strange and they just labelled it abstract work with a hidden meaning not always obvious at first look , when looking in to abstract photography i found that part of what i thought was true and that that sometimes the photographs represented something while representing its own form it might also represent a larger concept.

 I looked at some photos that had taken and in order to get the best detail decided to instead of taking some new pictures to instead crop these previous pictures so that the detail would be really clear and would not have to worry about depth field .

Here is the original picture of the flower

And here is the cropped abstract style picture showing it from a close up angle and showing speckles of water on the flower which would previously not of seen in the original picture.

 

 

 

Another example of after picking a picture that had taken then after cropping it on photo shop how you can really get a extreme close up which essentially is what most abstract pictures are and this shows the tiny Patton on the blue of the wrapper which would not see on the original picture .