Emily Watson- Image Capture: March 2014

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Field Trip

Lake George

For our first field trip we went to Lake George and Gundaroo. It was a rainy overcast day, but that actually worked to our advantage because it gave us a chance to get some different photos. I really wanted the capture the fact that it had been raining, so I did some close ups which I really enjoyed. Lake George is a flat landscape but once I started exploring I found some really nice locations and heaps of things to take photos of. Overall it was a great day with heaps of laughs and I came back with plenty of images to choose from

ISO: 1600

Shutter Speed: 1/400

Aperture: 5.0

ISO: 1600

Shutter Speed: 1/1000

Aperture: 5.6

Gundaroo

Besides pretty much nothing being open Gundaroo is a nice little village. I really wanted to focus on the little details in thing. So heaps of close ups and just photographing things that everyone else would just walk past. I used different angles and view point to make my images different.

ISO: 800

Shutter Speed: 1/640

Aperture: 5.0

ISO: 800

Shutter Speed:1/400

Aperture: 5.0

ISO: 1600

Shutter Speed:1/640

Aperture: 5.0

ISO: 800

Shutter Speed: 1/500

Aperture: 4.5

Other Photos

ISO: 1600

Shutter Speed: 1/500

Aperture: 5.6

ISO: 1600

Shutter Speed: 1/1250

Aperture: 5.6

ISO: 1600

Shutter Speed: 1/200

Aperture: 5.0

ISO: 800

Shutter Speed: 1/320

Aperture: 5.0

Friday, March 28, 2014

Assignment 5

Lenses

Wide-angle- this lens has a very wide angle of view, which allows you to work very close to your subject and still include it all in the frame.

Zoom- has a range of focal lengths. Eg. 18-55mm  

Long focus- makes distance objects look larger for magnifying

Telephoto- this has a very narrow angle of view.

Retro-focus- A wide angle lens with the front element is negative rather then positive which is found in most wide angle lenses.

Quasi fish-eye- full frame, this creates a rectangle photo.

True fish-eye- Creates images with a slightly curved or bowed appearance, and a field of view that covers up to 180 degrees.

Catadioptric- it uses refraction and reflection to reduce the physical length of the lens.

Macro- highly magnifies subjects and has the ability to achieve sharp close up focus.

Teleconverter- it is connected between the lens and the camera body and it magnifies the effect of the lens that you are using.

Supplementary- used to increase the magnification, it’s a cheap way to start Marco photography.

PC or tiltshift- changes the lens imaging circle in relation to the sensor, it gives the photographer control over the perspective of the image.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Lighting

Lighting Techniques

Last week in studio class we looked at Rim and Background lighting, this technique is highly effective and a great technique to learn.

When doing Background lighting you illuminate to backdrop, this creates a sense of depth and makes it easier to define the sitter form the background.

Rim Lighting (also referred to as a hair light or backlit lighting) is when you place a light behind the sitter and illuminate the sitter. This creates a glow around the sitter and again separates the sitter from the background.

Rim Lighting

Background Lighting

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Lens Focal Length

Task One

Because this photo was taken from a lower angle and a zoom lens it makes both the objects significant. I also used a wider aperture to make sure that the War Memorial was in focus, but I still wanted the sitter to be the main focus.

Task Two

I assumed that the sitter would be younger and decided to sit them on the ground which shows how big the sculpture is, but it is also flattering for the sitter.

Other photo to promote race.

I like this photo and think that it would be great to help promote the race.

Great Distance

This was taken on a wide angle lens and shows how far away they are.

Closer Together

This was taken using a zoom lens and also the angle makes the two building look closer together.

Photo for Dave

I like this photo because it has a good contrast between the light and the shadows. Also the bridge leads the viewer into the building and the clouds in the background have great highlights.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Folio Proposal

Location Folio

For my location Folio I would like the take natural light portraits. I will use the golden hour of lighting and just after sundown to create a magical feeling, also I will use a reflector for fill light but I wont be using my speedlite or any other forms of studio lighting. I will use a wide depth of field and rather green natural surrounds, this may mean that I need to use a fast shutter speed to reduce movement in the trees. In saying this I will experiment with movement of the subject and background, but I will see how it goes. I am drawing inspiration from photographers such as Emily Soto, Lara Jade and Julia Trotti. Throughout these images I really want to focus on my posing of models and really experiment with new poses to create interesting images. Below I have some examples of what type of images I will be aiming to achieve.

Lighting Ratio's

Lighting Ratios

Lighting ratios are the comparisons between key and fill light. The higher the contrast of the image the high the ratio and therefor the lower the contrast of the image the lower the ratio. Different ratios are commonly used for certain things, for example:

- 1:1 ratio is commonly used for babies and small children because they make sudden movements.

- 2:1 ratio is used for women’s portraits because it has a lower contrast and this is seen as being more flattering.

- Whereas a ratio of 4:1 is used for men as it is more dramatic.

Below is a table that I found which really helped me understand how lighting ratios are worked out in relation too F-Stops.

Ratio	Exposure Difference	The result
1:1	Equal	Even or “flat” lighting
2:1	1 Stop	A nice ratio for general images…
3:1	1 1/2 Stops	This provides soft shadows on the subject – quite nice!
4:1	2 Stops	Low key and dramatic lighting of the subject
8:1	4 Stops	Very dramatic lighting and loads of contrast

Exposure Control

For this Task we where asked to use bracketing to learn how the light meter in our camera works. For each Image I took 5 photos, one being the suggested exposure 2 under exposed and 2 over exposed, from them 5 photos I have chosen 3 to show for example in this post.

First we had the fill the frame with all white, and expose the image how our camera was telling us to, and then bracket it up 2 stops and down 2 stops. From this I found that the white image turned grey and that it needed to be over exposed 2 stops in order for it to be white.

ISO: 800
F-Stop: 4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/25

(Suggested Exposure)

Shutter Speed: 1/100

Shutter Speed: 1/6

Next we had to fill the frame with all black, for this I used my Ugg Boot! Due to having to have the shutter speed so low there was some slight movement in the photo but as shown in the images the suggested photo once again is grey. To achieve a black photo I had to under expose the photo 2 stops.