tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81023241486371699372024-03-05T12:00:09.352+00:00OCA Learning BlogCurrently studying - The Art of PhotographyDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002127185436136777noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102324148637169937.post-7077926624549822382011-06-01T10:22:00.000+01:002011-06-01T10:22:58.980+01:00Final Thoughts<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well this will be my last (new) post for this course. I received my completion certificate last week for TOAP and I was quite sad, mainly because I've been so distracted by a recent Ofsted inspection at work that I hadn't really considered that fact that I had finished the course. I felt, feel, like I'm still doing it. The next module is going to have to wait too for financial reasons so I'm really reluctant to wrap up this course, but, assessment is pending so here I am, on the blog to tidy it up and make some changes before it is analysed and assessed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what have I learnt? Well, this may sound a bit over the top, but I have learnt how to be an artist rather than a skilled camera operator. I have learnt how to think about what I want my images to convey and also what I want to say through photography.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I have been taking photographs I have moved between different styles and subjects and doing this course I feel like I am crafting a style of my own. I'm also quite keenly aware of the different influences that there is on my work. I liked doing some parodies of Avedon, Mapplethorpe and others. I've also realised that people and portraits are my main passion when it comes to photography. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking back at my work and the photographs I have produced I am proud but if I started from scratch there are a whole host of changes that I would make given time, but part of me likes to see what produced and rather than change it, use it as motivation to improve and make the next thing better.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I definitely feel this way about the assignments. The images I did for the last assignment are my favourites and I really liked being given a free reign over my ideas.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've still got a long way to go, I need to work harder at expressing myself through my blogging and explaining my thought processes, but I'll get there!</span>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002127185436136777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102324148637169937.post-75452856457041630392011-04-27T09:52:00.000+01:002011-04-27T09:52:20.364+01:00My App Is Published<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sort of related to this course as I have made it the focus of assignment 5, but the app that I have been making was published on the Android Market last night which is quite exciting.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's called Your Big Day Lite and it's a wedding planner application. It's been fun to make and a challenge in a lot of ways as its been a long time since I did proper programming.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rather than discuss the individual shots, as individuals, I'd rather discuss them within the context of the page layout for which they were taken.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bearing the purpose of the images in mind during post production. I have made a lot of them quite high contrast so that they stand out on the page.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wanted the cover shot to be something that was attention grabbing and a shot that would sell the magazine off a busy shelf of competitors.<br />
The photo on the front cover needed to have the iconic Android logo combined with the human element, me! I used a telephoto lens and a using a data projector, I projected a life size android logo onto a White wall. I then put the camera on a timer and spent a while running between the wall and the camera posing and resetting the timer.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
I chose this photo because the eye-line is such a strong element. When viewing a photo, the first thing we look at is the eyes of a person or animal. This image works well as a narrative because I am looking at the Android but my eyeliner also leads the viewer up to the title of the magazine. A few other elements work well here too, I chose a black shirt because I thought that I would end up placing text over it, and the green text overlay enhances the contrast between the human in the photo and the character. <br />
The image is playful and it plays with perspective as well because the android projection seems to be both behind and in front of the developer, making him (me, it's weird writing about myself) seem meshed within the world of Android. <br />
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A final element of the image which works well, is the visible pixelation caused by the projector, being an older projector the resolution is quite low, but this leads to a connection between the digital nature of the product and the content of the article.<br />
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So I knew when I was taking the projection images that I would be using more than one. with this in mind, I ensured that I created a variety of poses, most of which made me cringe afterwards! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
The second of them that I chose was one where my eye was roughly lined up with one of the androids eyes suggesting a link between the two of us, and also allowing the viewer to see the android as well as the human. This photo is composed exactly as it was taken, no cropping took place. I wanted to leave some space to the left of the frame to allow for the text of the article. I also processed this image a bit more than the cover story so hat is was a bit less detailed than the cover photo. I wanted this affect in order to allow the photo to be appraised by the viewer quickly so that they could then move on to reading the story. I increased the contrast and saturation of the image and adjusted the curves to make it as high contrast as it could be, without making it look too affected.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
My pose makes me seem quite open and almost accepting of the influence that this process has had on me and gives the impression that I am a part of the android universe.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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After establishing the main protagonist in the article (me) I then wanted to show the amateur working environment and the simple equipment used to make an app at home. This is where elements of narrative start to come in. The main shot on the left, the computer desk is, believe it or not, quite a careful staged still life. I raided a box of backup hard drives, borrowed a couple of phones, placed a few bits and bobs around and finally took a trip to costa coffee just to get the final piece of the puzzle.<br />
Having constructed the image I decided to used a fish eye lens to give it a dynamic feeling and I shot 6 different exposures and merged them together as a HDR. I can take HDR or leave it, some love it so hate it, but I don't mind. The reason why I decided to use it here was because lighting experiments failed to liven up a flat image and I wanted to add a sense of drama to it, without adding anything artificial. <br />
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The image on the right is also shot with the fish eye but simply to allow me to fill the frame with one simple object. Whilst the computer desk is cluttered and rife with action, I wanted the mouse image to be a simple shot, almost a stock image of a mouse to show how such a common place object is so important in the process of development.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To make the mouse stand out I wanted to use a high key image with a lightbox as the background. As I don't have a lightbox I used a studio light with a softbox and turned it facing directly up. This created a nice effect where I exposed for the mouse, but the background is bright white and the edges of the mouse become much softer as the light from the softbox spills onto it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This effect creates a nice high contrast, the focus is solely on the mouse and the shape of it. It almost becomes an object of beauty until the viewer remembers that it is a mouse.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first of the three photos used is a staged shot where I have projected binary code against myself and pulled a pose that should suggest frustration. The idea is that a solo developer working by themselves into the night can be very frustrating. I used the data projector again and a wide angle lens to get a dramatic image of frustration.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think this image works well. I would have preferred not to have the rest of the projection spill over onto the wall behind me but I haven't got access to any rooms long enough to avoid this issue. I tried changing the angles of the frame and tried filling the frame but I wanted the 'tearing hair out' out pose and this was the only way to get it, because the projector projects light I couldn't even increase the shutter speed because the exposure for my face needed to be the correct exposure for the projected image. I still think it works.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The second image on the top right hand side is a shot taken whilst at the Gadget Show. I knew that going to the Gadget Show would be a great opportunity to take a lot of photos of the public using Android tablets and handsets. It was perfect because it meant that I didn't have to hover around in mobile phone shops and ask permission, I was able to use a longer lens (70-200) and shoot at will. The downside was that the lighting at the NEC was very poor and I had to compensate the white balance quite a lot. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I was shooting at 200mm I didn't use flash and the image that was chosen, out of quite a few, is nicely lit by the light box in front of the people using the phones and tablets. The image portrays the growth of the market and the interest that people have in this kind of technology, whilst it isn't obvious that this is the gadget show, it is clearly some kind of venue where people can have a go at new tech, and the concentration on their faces shows how interested they are.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The third image on the page is a pure street photography shot. I blogged about being terrible at street photography and this shot was brilliant timing. I had sat down looking for people walking past on their phones and noticed the two girls sitting opposite me using their handsets. The space between them speaks volumes and there is a great juxtaposition between them, sitting in complete isolation but on the same bench, because they are using smart phones. In a way, this is quite a damning photo, it decries the success of smartphones but it also demonstrates how popular they are, and why people like me spend hours at night making apps for them.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pages 8 and 9 show two similar images where I have used juxtaposition and metaphors to continue the narrative on application development.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The photography on the right has been cropped for page layout purposes but the important elements of the image are still visible, those being the plastic Android toy in the middle of the street. I wanted to use the 'long road' metaphor to show how the development can be a long process. I used a wide angle lens to give the android some dramatic perspective and a wide aperture to decrease the detail of the road and cars behind the android.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cover needed to show techniques of illustration and then the inside pages will be a picture essay similar to what I have created before. I needed to consider linked images, different aspects of the story and use of juxtaposition and narrative.</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My picture essay earlier in this segment was based on one of my interests, running. I am preparing for the Great North Run and I started to think about the idea of doing a series of photographs and self portraits based around the preparation of someone who is new to running (less than 6 months) but who has signed up to do quite a strenuous race. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started to put more details into this plan. What I liked about it was the concept of combining self portraiture with some still life and some street photography. I am planning to the do People and Places unit next which will possibly mean I have to convince various friends and family to model for me, I don't seem to have surrounded myself with model wannabes and it always takes nagging or bribing them all. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I thought that to use myself would work well in this one, also, I'm picking something about me so I should man up and put myself in front of the camera, not something I like doing.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other aspects I liked of my idea was a combination of photographic styles in order to establish a more coherent story. I wanted to use modelled self portraits, still life shots of objects that relate to the story and provide some context and juxtaposition and also some street photography. This last one was proving a sticking point. I like street photography but it is an area I need to practice at length. I wanted to put it in to stretch myself and I had an idea of capturing some joggers going past a cafe with people sat outside looking at them as they passed. I know you shouldn't try to be that specific when planning street photography, but hey, I wanted to be ambitious for this last assignment.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought about things that I am doing at the moment, interests that I have, and one of the things that has been taking up a lot of my time at the moment has been developing an Android smartphone application.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some background is needed here as that may seem a bit random. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used to be a java programmer before moving into education. I manage an IT teaching team at a college and as part of my job I still teach a few hours. This year, two of my more intrepid tutors started teaching the development of iPhone apps. As an iPhone user, I thought this was marvellous, looked into it, discovered that the Android platform, iPhone's biggest rival, uses Java and after a lot of scraping around in my brain to remember java, I started teaching very basic Android app development.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In order to teach myself so that I could teach the students, I have been making a Wedding Planner app which I'm going to release on the Android Market as a marketing tool for my wedding photography sideline. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started to wonder about how I would use this as an idea. One of the things that leapt at me straight away was one of Android's strengths, it's iconic logo. The Android logo, a little green robot, has started to crop up in all phone shops and in the media.</span></div><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MJMTMXGvOe0/TbPq4YPp4eI/AAAAAAAAJK4/IbvE8RPLOFY/s1600/android-logo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MJMTMXGvOe0/TbPq4YPp4eI/AAAAAAAAJK4/IbvE8RPLOFY/s320/android-logo.gif" width="276" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using this as a starting point the initials concepts quickly began listing themselves:</span></div><div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A magazine article about homebrew - the practice of developing software at home</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The theme will allow for modelled self portraits, still life and street photography</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The street photography element will capture the rise of smartphone usage</span></li>
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</ul></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was slightly concerned that my subject is a bit to niche, but then I decided that it didn't matter. The brief states any subject and even if my audience aren't the types to read smart phone app magazines (like me - app nerd!), the techniques of illustration and narrative should still shine through.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a first for me, I usually stick to an idea once I have started it through bloody determination (stubbornness). In past assignments this has let me down a bit and I feel like I've grown a bit in my art work that I am willing to abandon an idea after thinking it through.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After I took the photos I waited until I got the the exercise.<i> </i>I've done this in advance of exercises 43 and 44 but mainly because I want to mull over the symbols for a bit and frankly I was looking forward to this one so I skipped ahead!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've never done any type-facing or layout before so this was really fun. The following covers were made in order shown with the last one being my favourite.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm really pleased with this and think it fulfills the task requirements well.</span>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002127185436136777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102324148637169937.post-66380290869765864832011-03-15T20:18:00.006+00:002011-03-21T20:33:58.624+00:00Exercise 43 - Symbols<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A thought exercise! I haven't done one of these since an Oxford Philosophy distance learning course I did years ago.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyway, thinking of symbols for a number of concepts. I need more than one symbol for each subject and a short note explaining how I could use it in a photograph.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Growth</span></b><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">seeds, saplings, vines. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nature springs to mind immediately. You could have a series of marks on a door frame with a child's age written next to it. A certain mind set might verge towards some more adult symbolism!</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I think if I was to take a single photograph to represent growth, I would probably lie flat on the ground, find a sprouting blub and use the fish eye lens - which I'm a bit obsessed with at the moment.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Excess</span></b><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Food! Burger wrappers spilling out of a bin, Gregs bags which contribute to so much litter. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Symbols of excess should be immediate and in your face. I like the idea of taking a picture of a man with a load of gold jewellery and teeth or a woman wearing furs standing in a grand hallway with lots of gaudy chintz.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Being realistic, if I were to take this photo now, I'd go for food excess and get someone swigging a milkshake whilst they had food down their face and a burger in their hand. Food excess is the easiest to access to seems like a lazy choice, but because it is the easiest to access, it's one of our societies biggest problems.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Crime</span></b><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Symbols of crime are often closely associated with symbols of punishment, a masked man, striped prison tops, multiple arrows, bars, locks, crowbars etc.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'd like to take a picture that showed corporate crime where a man could be seen at a desk in a respectable shot, but there were small indicators around the scene that indicate his criminal nature. There could be some files marked confidential, a report of fraud, a variety of credit cards in different names, or passports with different names and the same man in each of them. There could be a small bag of concrete on the floor leaning on the desk with some rope and a pair of black leather gloves etc.<br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Silence</span></b><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Symbols for silence, hmm, this is a more difficult one. A gagged man, one of those orange bills like the gimp in pulp fiction wore. Silence can be evoked by emptiness, a room with the door left open or a dark street at night. Anywhere where there should be, but arent people. An empty escalator. I'd take a picture of two people sat staring at each other with their mouths closed.<br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Poverty</span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>Poverty can be shown through symbols of waste, dereliction and most importantly through people. Where clothes are torn or dirty and people look malnourished or diseased.<br /><br><br />this is a difficult one to plan a photo for. I wouldn't want to take a photo of real poverty under these circumstances and faking it seems brutal. An empty purse would be a good work around. Or a bank statement with a hefty minus figure.<br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><br />Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002127185436136777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102324148637169937.post-76142696651153216462011-03-15T20:18:00.003+00:002011-03-27T14:52:53.681+01:00Exercise 44 - JuxtapositionI wanted to do The Lion The Witch And The Wardobe for this but despite having a very lion-like cat called Aslan I couldn't find a witch or mini wardrobe!<br /><br />So a quick glance at the bookshelf and I saw Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors, a collection of short stories.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/03/27/1076.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/03/27/s_1076.jpg' border='0' width='190' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /><br />And I came up with this. What I like about it is that the name of the book is also the same as a common phrase so the juxtaposition between the candle, smoke and mirror creates and obvious meaning.<br /><br />Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002127185436136777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102324148637169937.post-86022332015626037272011-03-14T18:52:00.003+00:002011-03-15T20:14:52.692+00:00Exercise 42 - Evidence of Action<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This image shows evidence of an event. There are 2 main props, the empty wallet, the bloody knife and the obscured body.</span><br />
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</span>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002127185436136777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102324148637169937.post-58509719310089243152011-02-28T16:47:00.008+00:002011-03-01T20:45:41.251+00:00Planning an event shoot cont...<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An excellent reply!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span">Hi David</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>We would be happy for you to come down and take some photos. We would only ask that you uploaded a selection of them to the South Manchester facebook group for the runners to ask freely. If you are coming this weekend I will be away, but the Race DIrector will be ... and she will be able to answer any questions on the day. The race starts at 9.00am with the volunteers arriving at 8.15 to do the pre-run set up, meeting outside the boathouse. As it’s a circular route there are plenty of good points to photograph the runners. Let me know which weekend you’ll be joining us.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
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</div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll have a look when I get there, but I think I'll start at the start, then walk to the edge of the right hand side and catch people running there, then I will walk to the 4K point and see if I can catch people running in the foreground and background and then catch them on the final stretch.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A good time for a 5K is about 25 minutes so I'll have to move quite quickly if there are not many runners.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A quick recon trip around the park confirmed the distances between the parts of the course and also provided the idea of having a shot of runners across the pond.</span><br />
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</ul>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002127185436136777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102324148637169937.post-15652408778297419852011-02-25T13:08:00.000+00:002011-02-25T13:08:34.114+00:00Assignment 4 - Setups and Rejects<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g8V-uXB-Etg/TWemG3K7QXI/AAAAAAAAJF0/3Nfl7U6Xy04/s1600/shape_rejects.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g8V-uXB-Etg/TWemG3K7QXI/AAAAAAAAJF0/3Nfl7U6Xy04/s400/shape_rejects.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Various shots were rejected for shape. I'm still a bit torn about the image that is top right above but I think the ones I selected are the best. The window shots didn't work amazingly well and the sunset shot I planned never happened as the sun needs to visit Manchester!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NP33HERwkcw/TWemcjQktQI/AAAAAAAAJF4/AX9x3uvpmjI/s1600/texture_rejects.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NP33HERwkcw/TWemcjQktQI/AAAAAAAAJF4/AX9x3uvpmjI/s400/texture_rejects.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My other texture shots focus on the flaws in the metal. I really like these and they are successful images, so I'm prepared if Simon suggests that my smooth shot outside isn't following the brief. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iGrtzCuphbs/TWemvwEJR0I/AAAAAAAAJF8/Xs46bhpxGY0/s1600/colour_rejects.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iGrtzCuphbs/TWemvwEJR0I/AAAAAAAAJF8/Xs46bhpxGY0/s400/colour_rejects.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I tried a few different backdrops for the ice bunny and also a few different contrasts such as the reflector with a lot more light hitting it, and the coffee table. I'm pleased with the two I have selected as none of the above really show the colour any better. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qgr4zpkpprk/TWel5WfesiI/AAAAAAAAJFw/F-YIn2P5Fjg/s1600/form_rejects.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qgr4zpkpprk/TWel5WfesiI/AAAAAAAAJFw/F-YIn2P5Fjg/s400/form_rejects.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As can be seen above there were a few different attempts at the window sill shot. All were fine, but I liked having more context. I also tried a few different angles on the balcony shot. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here's the process of moulding the bunny</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002127185436136777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102324148637169937.post-86006177054899338562011-02-24T20:32:00.002+00:002011-02-25T12:49:38.990+00:00Assignment 4 - Using Lighting Techniques<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm so tired of taking photos of that bunny!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although it has been great seeing all of the different ways in which four different qualities of the same object can be shown in very different images using a variety of lighting. I like lighting, both artificial and natural, and whilst some elements of this part have been difficult due to weather, I have really enjoyed the assignment.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For each of the qualities, I decided to focus on them in isolation. There are some images where more than one of the qualities can be seen in detail, but I just wanted to focus on the particular quality under scrutiny.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I chose the brass bunny because it has such a prominent shape but also discreet differences in texture and a nice colour. For all of these photos I used auto white balance, which never lets me down. On some of them I had tweaked it slightly using the manual white balance temperature slider in Lightroom.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/100 </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I knew I wanted to do this shot as soon as I started thinking about the assignment. I saw this done with a wine glass in a photography magazine. It's a simple technique using a soft-box covered in black material in the middle with two thin strips of light coming through on either side. This leads to the object in questions being lit just from the edges showing it's shape perfectly.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I needed a decent aperture to capture enough of the barely lit object and a shutter speed that allowed me to shoot hand-held.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am really pleased with this shot, it fits the brief perfectly and shows the great shape of the object.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/100</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the second shape shot, I wanted to use shadow and whilst there was another that I liked (see previous post) I wanted to capture two shapes at once. The shadow shows a different profile to the actual bunny which exemplifies the shape of the object.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The room was quite dark in order for the shadow to be strong. I used the small, hard flash without any diffusion to create as strong a shadow as possible. The flash was off camera.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Natural light was my choice for the both form shots. I wanted to use a large light source in order to show as many angles of the object as possible. I shot this image at F2.5 in order to throw out any distractions, but I wanted to keep some other objects in the frame such as the wooden shutter and the carved bowl in order to add a sense of depth to the shot, which in turn shows the depth of the object. This image was taken at lunchtime when the sun was at its highest, but it was quite an overcast day so I was confident that the light would be diffused in order to allow the shadows to be soft and all the object's dimensions to be shown.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to use natural light again for the second form image. I'm nervous about this image, not because I'm unhappy with it, but because I think that under scrutiny it could be considered that form is being shown not by the lighting, but by the fish eye lens that I used.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I stand by the image though, I really like this one, I converted it to mono and stressed for ages about whether or not to avoid the colour background. In the end I stuck with the colour because the grass and buildings behind the rabbit are darker and they show depth which gives context to the depth of the bunny. The light was fading when I took this so I had to use my widest aperture and a slower shutter speed than I would have liked (it could be sharper). There was a lot of cloud and the sun was far away so there is little shadow in the image and the curves and bumps of the rabbit can be clearly seen in a way that isn't as noticeable in any of the other photos.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took this shot following some of the colour photographs and adapted the lighting accordingly. I wanted the first texture shot to show the chinks in the brass (made by whacking it with a spoon - all in the name of art!). I used one of my studio lights to the front-right of the object and a large softbox behind to light the scene, but dialled down. The front light had no diffusion at all so that the texture was shown with hard shadow. I could have used a wider aperture to increase the detail, and thus show more texture, but I wanted to keep the backdrop blurred so it showed a good contrast.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used a portable flash for this shot which was aimed at the bunny's front. Having already captured a shot of the chinks and scratches, I decided to use lighting to make the texture seem smoother than it really is. I used F8 as the sun hadn't set completely and I wanted the background to be darker, but I still wanted some detail, some texture, to make the bunny seem smooth and metallic. The flash was on quite a low power but it was very close to the bunny which allowed all of the detail to be filled with light. The distance of the camera from the rabbit also helps create the impression that it is completely smooth.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the other image that I'm nervous about as I worry that I shouldn't be using light to smooth out texture, but enhance. My aim though, was to use a lighting technique to serve a purpose, and I think I have done that.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first colour shot was taken with my portable reflector which has a number of different colours and textured surfaces. I decided to use the gold surface to try and increase the bronze colour of the bunny. After some experimentation, I sat the bunny on the reflector as it was flat on the floor, and I used two studio lights, both diffused (soft-box and brolly) to decrease the shadow and show the colour.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used F4.5 because there was a lot of light flare coming off the reflector and I wanted to minimize it, and I shot at 1/100 as it was hand-held, and I didn't want to lose the light in the background.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like this image a lot, rather than showing colour by contrast, it shows it through similar shades and the whole image has a warm glow.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the last image and the one that took the most preparation. I wanted to so direct influence from another photographer, and I wanted to show the rich brass colour of the rabbit through a stark contrast. I made the mould of the bunny and created an ice bunny to sit besides it in a nod to Robert Mapplethorpe.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used a tripod for this image and wanted to get as much detail as I could. I used a large soft-box to light the two bunnys and a hard smaller light against the reflector background.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Overall I am pleased with the results of this assignment. I am sick of taking pictures of the bunny but I feel like I have stretched myself. I didn't use as many of the other inspirational photographs as I originally planned to, but I don't think that this is detrimental to the photographs as they fit the brief better.</span>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002127185436136777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102324148637169937.post-36168678403470878452011-02-22T19:12:00.001+00:002011-02-22T19:29:32.692+00:00Assignment 4 Rejects<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Following feedback on my previous assignment, I decided for the lighting assignment that I would take direct inspiration from famous photographs.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the ideas I decided to use as inspiration, was Richard Avedon's signature style of the black and white shot with the high key background and sort of, 3/4 framing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you can see from the shot above, I've now done this with my chosen object for the assignment but I've decided to reject it. It would work well for 'shape' but not 'form'. It just doesn't represent the 3D aspects of the shape as it's face on and despite trying a few different lighting types, it just doesn't work.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I thought I'd at least post it here to show it as a rejected idea, but still a success in some respects!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is another reject. I've got a load of spares from this assignment, but this is one that I really struggled with. I really like this shot, it fits the 'shape' brief but ultimately I decided to reject it and choose another because the shot that I have chosen meets the 'shape' criteria on two counts - as will be seen in the submission!</span>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002127185436136777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102324148637169937.post-40237786823614932962011-02-13T17:13:00.000+00:002011-02-13T17:09:13.734+00:00Halfway through shooting assignment fourCreated using Adobe® Ideas<br><a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeideas">http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeideas</a>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002127185436136777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102324148637169937.post-7296467084422491402011-02-09T20:38:00.000+00:002011-02-09T20:38:16.210+00:00Exercise 40 - Shiny Surfaces<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Pre Shoot</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shiny surfaces was an interesting exercise. I decided that as I have a big lightbox tent thing (another ebay bargain) that it was pointless replicating the same effect with tracing paper and that I should just use the lightbox.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't see the need to show that the tracing paper acts as a light diffused which reduces the reflection, so I went for a still life arrangement taken horizontally rather than a birds eye view.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I selected a variety of shiny and reflective objects from around the flat and placed them on the coffee table. I used my 430EXII on the radio trigger and my 100mm macro lens, I left the camera on the same settings as the last exercise, as I hadn't used it in between.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The hard light photos don't show direct reflections of the camera lens or me, but they do show lots of reflections of the light that is aimed at it, and the objects around the room are reflected in the wine glass more often than not.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just in case anyone wonders - the liquid is water and some soy, didn't want to use clear water as I wanted to see colour reflections.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the diffused images I used my softbox and moved it around the objects. I took quite a few images, but have just posted these two here as they were all telling a similar story. The reflections around the room were decreased, but a large reflection was now visible on the bird and crystal paper weight.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The side of the glass also reflected a large bright white reflection. Despite being good for most flash photography, the softbox is actually worse with shiny surfaces.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's interesting to see how well the detail of the table is shown though. the second image is interesting as the blue/green base of the paperweight is reflected against the side of the tea tin.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inside the lightbox the reflections were diminished greatly. In both images above, the layers of colour in the liquid can be seen, almost all of the text on the tea tin can be read and the bird is only reflecting the crystal paper weight, which means that if photographed in isolation, it wouldn't have any reflections in it at all. The textures of the paper weight are also shown.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know that strictly speaking I haven't followed the instructions, but I have learned more about light reflections on different types of shiny surface, so I'm happy with that - hope the assessor is!</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This Mapplethorpe image could be parodied with my brass bunny!</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
Sent from my iPhone</div>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002127185436136777noreply@blogger.com0