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 .

 

 

 

Close up photography

Close up photography

Close up photography is another style and technique of taking pictures of which photographers will use in particular if they want to capture the detail in there pictures of which a long range picture would not capture because of it not being at a as detailed viewpoint as a close up. This all involved focus on the camera  being used and also depth of filed comes into it because one problem that will experience with this is that behind and in front of the main focus will be sharp this is swallow focus  ,however  if the setting of the aperture is set to a lower number you will get a sharper and clearer depth of filed

Here is the original picture which i used from a set of photos i had previously had taken i chose to take a already shot picture from long range and then alter on photo shop as i wanted to get maximum detail and found it easier to do this way, i chose this picture because it had a good distance from the camera also all though the picture is clear you can not see much detail .

 

 

 

 

  This is the end product of my first attempt i chose a area of the picture to crop to which think there was a good focus of which was the extending leaf coming out however one thing after editing the picture which would change is when shooting the original photograph i would of lowered the aperture number as the front and background of the focus is out .

 

 

 

F 16.0

iso - 100

1/125

exposure - manual

focal lengh - 55.0mm

Looking at some pictures i have taken i have found examples of close up photography in it in particular these two pictures which is from two different angles but both are close up angles , of which is showing more detail than would making the writing on the wrapper a lot clearer and sharper.

 

Black and white processing

Black and white processing 
After taking the pictures we then moved onto the development process
I first few steps of the process are loading the film into the camera extracting tongue from the film canister and loading the film from the canister and loading the film onto the spiral .

tools- scissers can opener and film + spirral  key to always remember to be aware of what tools feel like as when doing this part of the process it will be completely dark 

next step is to open the canister and take the film out to load onto the spiral , once open and load onto the spiral load onto the bigger starting points and once rolled around the spiral the cut of end piece of film.

to exstract the tongue from the canister need a special device both pieces of plastic on the device are pushed into the canister and rotate until click and then gently removed.

Development process in the dark room-

the exposure and development is purely down to the photographer and exposure process they choose.

3 tanks full of 15 leaters 1 of development the second a stop bath(vinger basesd) then the third the fix to which is a acid base mix ,in a negative black appears as white and white appears as black .

development - deep tanks process film for 7 mins after film for 5 mins film onto the rod adjitate for short periods of time .slide the film on after 2 mins adjitating again both together to make sure no air on he film then stop bath then to ficer no more development is done so no more exposure so a light is able to be on.

wash and dry - with the tub and the film inside fill with water and then after 30 mins of washing time add then a small wetting agent once emptyed the film can be hung up to dry in the dryer.

 for my prints after looking at how long would have them under , i struggled with all my attempts at this time not being able to get the right contrast between to dark and to light ,furthermore i feel this would of worked better if had taken better pictures as all of these was not clear and had dust particals on them , in addition if was todo this again i would make sure my photographs was taken better and take a lot more tests to decide how much time is needed in this process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portrature

F/18 1/50 ISO 400

F6.3 ISO 400

Portrate photography is photographes taken of a person and is usually in a still postion and mostly the person is looking directly at the camera , one purpose by doing this style of photography is to show the emotion/mood or personality of the person in the photograph.

In these set of pictures i wanted to both do the standard portrate style but also do a different angle on it .The first picture has the person starring straight into the camera for my first few pictures i wanted to be safe and stick with the normal conventions and using the natural light in the pictures then as went on started to experiment with different natural light shades and different positions for the person in the pictures .

This picture is the one i would pick out of them all as i think its a good example of a portrate for different reasons.The person in the picture is looking at the camera but also i think the picture shows the mood of her by the body language in the picture and her facial expression,furthermore i really like the light in the picture i positioned her at the top of some stairs where there was some big windows with beaming sun light coming in which would hit her perfectly with me posioned with my back to the window when taking the picture.

F6.3 ISO 400