Friday, 27 November 2015
Friday, 13 November 2015
Basic Camera Functions
Photographic Lenses
Wide Angled Lens
A lens mainly used by landscape photographers. They are used to highlight foreground objects and fading out the objects in the background. They create a depth of field.
Telephoto Lens
The opposite of a wide lens. It is good for making objects that are far away appear to be closer to the lens.
Fish Eye Lens
A fish eye lens makes the middle of the image come out to meet the viewer and leaves the top, bottom and sides of the image far away.
Macro Lens
A macro lens is used to to photograph objects close up. It allows the camera to focus on objects that are really close to the lens.
Settings
Macro Setting
The macro setting is similar to the macro lens. It allows the camera to focus on small objects and keeps a lot of the detail in the photograph.
Exposure Modes
Manual (M)
Manual mode allows the user to control both the aperture and the shutter speed of the camera.
Shutter Priority (S or TV)
Shutter priority allows the user to adjust the shutter speed of the camera, and changes the aperture to fit the shutter speed set by the user.
Aperture Priority (A or AV)
Aperture priority allows the user to control the aperture of the camera and changes the shutter speed to fit with the desired aperture.
Auto (P)
Auto mode makes it so that camera controls everything about the focusing, aperture, shutter speed etc.
ISO: Film Speed
The film speed is the sensitivity of the camera sensor. A High ISO is very sensitive to light and creates noise and a low ISO is not very sensitive to light and is used to create good quality smooth images when enlarged.
Exposure
Exposure is the amount of light reaching a photographic film or the image sensor. The exposure of a photograph is determined by the shutter speed, aperture and the amount of light in the scene.
Overexposure
Overexposure is when there is too much light entering the camera. The photograph then becomes too light and removes some of the detail from the photograph.
Underexposure
Underexposure is when not enough light enters the camera. The photograph then becomes too dark, and the viewer is unable to see all of the detail.
Shutter Speed
Fast Shutter Speed
A fast shutter speed lets less light in to the camera by opening and closing really quickly. It is good for capturing fast moving objects. This is because it does not allow for the objects in the photograph to move much, reducing the amount of movement and blur in the photograph.
Slow Shutter Speed
A slow shutter speed lets more light in to the camera by opening and closing slowly. It creates movement and blurring. This is because things can move more when the camera is developing the photograph, meaning that it captures more of the movement.
Aperture
The aperture is the part of the camera that gets bigger or smaller in order to allow more or less light in to the camera. The size of an aperture is measured in f-stops. The bigger the f-stop, the smaller the size of the opening. For example, an f-stop of f/16 has a really small opening. Whereas an f-stop of f/2 will have a large opening.
The size of the aperture is linked directly to the depth of field of the photograph. A smaller aperture creates a deeper depth of field, and a larger aperture creates a shallower depth of field.
Wide Angled Lens
A lens mainly used by landscape photographers. They are used to highlight foreground objects and fading out the objects in the background. They create a depth of field.
Telephoto Lens
The opposite of a wide lens. It is good for making objects that are far away appear to be closer to the lens.
Fish Eye Lens
A fish eye lens makes the middle of the image come out to meet the viewer and leaves the top, bottom and sides of the image far away.
Macro Lens
A macro lens is used to to photograph objects close up. It allows the camera to focus on objects that are really close to the lens.
Settings
Macro Setting
The macro setting is similar to the macro lens. It allows the camera to focus on small objects and keeps a lot of the detail in the photograph.
Exposure Modes
Manual (M)
Manual mode allows the user to control both the aperture and the shutter speed of the camera.
Shutter Priority (S or TV)
Shutter priority allows the user to adjust the shutter speed of the camera, and changes the aperture to fit the shutter speed set by the user.
Aperture Priority (A or AV)
Aperture priority allows the user to control the aperture of the camera and changes the shutter speed to fit with the desired aperture.
Auto (P)
Auto mode makes it so that camera controls everything about the focusing, aperture, shutter speed etc.
ISO: Film Speed
The film speed is the sensitivity of the camera sensor. A High ISO is very sensitive to light and creates noise and a low ISO is not very sensitive to light and is used to create good quality smooth images when enlarged.
Exposure
Exposure is the amount of light reaching a photographic film or the image sensor. The exposure of a photograph is determined by the shutter speed, aperture and the amount of light in the scene.
Overexposure
Overexposure is when there is too much light entering the camera. The photograph then becomes too light and removes some of the detail from the photograph.
Underexposure
Underexposure is when not enough light enters the camera. The photograph then becomes too dark, and the viewer is unable to see all of the detail.
Shutter Speed
Fast Shutter Speed
A fast shutter speed lets less light in to the camera by opening and closing really quickly. It is good for capturing fast moving objects. This is because it does not allow for the objects in the photograph to move much, reducing the amount of movement and blur in the photograph.
Slow Shutter Speed
A slow shutter speed lets more light in to the camera by opening and closing slowly. It creates movement and blurring. This is because things can move more when the camera is developing the photograph, meaning that it captures more of the movement.
Aperture
The aperture is the part of the camera that gets bigger or smaller in order to allow more or less light in to the camera. The size of an aperture is measured in f-stops. The bigger the f-stop, the smaller the size of the opening. For example, an f-stop of f/16 has a really small opening. Whereas an f-stop of f/2 will have a large opening.
The size of the aperture is linked directly to the depth of field of the photograph. A smaller aperture creates a deeper depth of field, and a larger aperture creates a shallower depth of field.
Friday, 6 November 2015
Martin Parr Facts
Martin Parr
Martin Parr is a British photographer
that allow the viewer to see the world from his perspective.
He takes photographs that represent
the media in his own way.
His photograph often appear
exaggerated at first glance, but he says that they are “propaganda”
photographs.
His photographs use criticism,
seduction and humour in order to keep them original and entertaining for the
viewer.
Parr juxtaposes specific images with
universal ones without resolving the contradictions.
The themes that he chooses to
photograph set him apart from any other photographer.
He publishes the same photos both in
art exhibitions and in art books as well as in the related fields of journalism
and advertising.
Friday, 23 October 2015
Duncan Philpott Notes Write Up
Duncan Philpott
Duncan Philpott is an
action-adventure photography based in Sheffield, UK. He was originally
completing a degree in Mathematics but decided to drop that and become a
photographer. His career started through a community of action sports fans and
has rapidly grown into a photography career with plenty of work coming in. Photography
magazines were his main inspiration to start photography, and from there he
made connections with the right people in order to grow his career.
Duncan
Philpott describes his everyday life as being packed with work, but worth it
because he is passionate about the subject. His day usually involves going
somewhere with him camera and taking hundreds, if not thousands, of
photographs. He can be doing this for a company, working to a brief, or for one
of his own personal projects. He says the perks of being a photographer are:
Travelling the world, doing something he loves, being outside and being able to
showcase who he is through his work.
The
downsides described by Duncan are that there is no job security in this
photography industry and there is no fixed income. Also he works very long
hours which leaves him with very little personal time, and because of the
photography he does, there is always a chance of hurting himself. There is a
lot of paperwork to be done including; proposals, marketing and personal
projects. One of this biggest things about the work Duncan does is the fact
that he is his own boss. He has to make sure everything gets done for the
deadlines set, and budget everything he does. There is nobody there to tell him
exactly what to do all the time, he is free to do what he wants, as long as it
fits the brief given to him.
Working
to a brief is one of the main things that Duncan does. He will get given a
brief by a company, this may be a few bullet points or a very precise
description of what they want, and from this he must produce a series of
photographs that fits the criteria presented. Duncan has worked on a few big
projects, with one of the biggest being a project for the Sheffield City
Council. In this project Duncan had to take photographs for a campaign to make
Sheffield look like a ‘green’ city. To do this Duncan was told to take
photographs of 5 different sports with Sheffield city as the background for
each one. He then went on to plan, scout locations and hire actors for his
photographs. After a week of shooting, Duncan ended up with over 3600
photographs, only a select few photographs were chosen for the final
submission.
As
a part of the planning for this project Duncan had to scout locations for
taking the photographs and hire professionals in the selected sports to come
and be in his photographs. For the location scouting he used a lot of his
knowledge of the sports, as he himself takes part in some of them, and Google
Maps to find locations for the shoot. This is to prevent a situation where he
goes to a location and it turns out that there is no clear view of the city.
To
select his final submissions Duncan used Adobe Lightroom to sort through him photographs
and sort them with the rating system. This allowed him to take the best
photographs from his 3600 and narrow them down to a few hundred. From there he
can more easily select the best ones for the brief and add any effects or do
any touch ups if necessary.
In
his downtime Duncan mainly does paperwork, personal projects, proposals for
projects, marketing and self-promotion. This means that he is always doing
something related to his work and can keep himself occupied all the time.
Duncan has a lot of ways in which he promotes himself. Some of these methods
include; Networking, blogging, social media, personal projects and
collaborations with other photographers. All of this allows him to get himself
known in the photography industry by making sure that more people are able to
see his work and make him a viable candidate for a lot of different projects.
He said that the best way to get work in the photography industry is to get
your work known. This helps massively as if somebody needs a photographer for a
project they will think of his name as a potential candidate as they have seen
what he can do.
Duncan
now runs his own website http://www.duncanphilpott.com, his Twitter account (@DuncanPhilpott)
on which he has nearly 2000 followers and his own Instagram account
(@DuncanPhilpott) on which he has 16.8
thousand followers. He has travelled the world while following his career and
doing something he loves with his friends. His networking and self-promotion
skills are two of the main reasons why he is as successful as he is today.
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