5-A-Day Challenge

Over the holidays we were asked to take 5 photographs a day and pick out of our favourite 5, bellow you will see my favourite 5. I tried to use different rules of composition, the first one being colour, the second being pattern, the third is texture, fourth is depth of field and the last is leading lines, I took these
images on a day out into Piccadilly, near China Town.

This image shows a good example of the composition rule, colour, I know this because it shows a wide range of colours, I took this image on my iPhone, as I did not have access to a camera at the time I'm not sure what the shutter speed was, but I don't think the shutter speed would make a difference as my image was not moving so i did not have to be fast.

In this image it is an example of pattern, at first I was going to use it as shape, but giving the symmetry, I thought it would be better to use as pattern as its a better example of it, I personally think this image could be better, but as I could not get high enough the image was not straight, so this image could of gone a lot better if I could if gotten the height.

This is an example of texture, I personally like this image as most texture images you cannot see the texture in full its normally flat, so with this being quite bold you can see it more clearly than in others.

In this image I tried to show depth of field, but as I said in my first image I was using an iPhone, which has a focus but is not that strong, so after taking my image I uploaded it onto Photoshop and used the blur tool to make the depth of field stronger, I personally think that made the image work a lot more than originally as your focus is just on the first pillar.

Leading lines is what is happening in this image, it is another compositional rule which is used to make your eyes follow the lines, though there is a lot going on at the sides of this image your eyes are taken to the very end, as if you're trying to find the end of the lines, but the lines are never ending.

Image Composition

In this task were were using different rules of composition an trying to capture them in images, there are many form of composition rules, I only chose a few rules to use, being the ones noted bellow.

Leading Lines
This image shows leading line because when you look at the image your eyes are drawn straight out of the image and the the door at the back which is the intention of leading lines, to take your eyes on a journey, I think this could of been better, I could of gotten closer so you do not see before the door or I could of asked somebody to hold the door at the back so the the lines carried on in the image.

             Tone                             
     This image is an example of tone, this is because it shows a dark and light colour, again I could of gotten closer to it or maybe cropped it in Photoshop so you an just see the black and white instead of everything else.                     

Triangles
This is a good example of triangles in my opinion as the purpose of a triangle in a image is to keep your eyes inside the frame, and if you look at the image if you try to look out,
 the triangles keep you there they point you back to the banister.

S-Curves
These images are examples of s-curves this is because you can see the clear s shape on the banister, s-curves can lead into or out of a scene, they either define the photograph or split the composition into two sections. This image could of gone better but as a I used the flash there is a hard light and flash in the image.

The Frame And Edge
This image shows a frame, the window being used as the frame for the outside, I should of positioned myself so I got all of the window in so it looked more like a frame of an image.

Shape
This image show the compositional rule of shape, this is because the lines make multiple shapes, I could of taken the image more straight but getting to the board where this was, was difficult. 

Space
This image shows space, this is because the subject is entering the space but your eyes get distracted by the tables in the background so next time I could try to take the image with less things in the background. 

Colour
This is an example of colour this is because it shows a very bright red against a white, this image could of been better as it shows the writing and the other box next to it.

Texture 
I think this is a good example of texture as you can clearly see the texture of the carpet.

Form

 My last image is an example of form, this is an example of form as there is only one thing in focus so your eyes go straight to that.

Depth of field.

In this task we were asked to conduct a depth of field experiment. Depth of field is to do with the aperture of the camera, for example if the aperture is high, for example like the last image on the first row, that means that the whole image is in focus, from front to far back, you can see this clearer in the middle image on the second row. You can see everything in the image, unlike the third image on the second row, it is focused on the banister head, and the background is out of focus, this is because the aperture is changed to a much wider one, so you can focus on a subject in the image more clearly than with a low aperture, your eyes don't go anywhere they stay where they are meant to stay unlike the other image where they wander as you can see everything in the image.

6 Shutter Speed Tasks

Camera Shake

With these images we went outside and then set out cameras to shutter priority the shutter speed was set at 1/30 while we shook the camera, the second image we did the same but the shutter speed was set at around 1/250 to have the sharp image we wanted.
Abstract Motion Blur

The setting were kept the same for all of these pictures, shutter priority, around 1 second.

With this image we took an image of somebody inside and zoomed in the lens while pressing the shutter.

This image was similar to the first one, but instead of just zooming in while pressing the shutter speed we also rotated the camera.

In this image we simply rotated the camera while pressing the shutter.

In our final abstract motion blur we just shook the camera while taking the image.

Frozen Motion
In this part of the task we had to set our shutter speed to around 1/250.

In this part we had to take a picture of somebody running but freezing the motion, but in the second image we had to add motion blur, so to do that we lowered the shutter speed to around 1/30 to add back the blur.

This image was the same as the ones above but we had to have somebody jumping instead.

Panning

With this task we had the shutter speed priority on and the shutter speed at around 1/30, we had to take a picture of somebody running past while we move the camera to follow them.

Ghosts 

In this task we set the camera to shutter priority and the shutter speed around 2-6, this is called ghosts because the person seen will appear to be seen as a ghost, the longer the shutter speed the more transparent the person will appear to be.

Exposure.

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In this task were were asked to look into the exposure of images. We were asked to take three images of the same thing but change the exposure each time we did so. I know which is overexposed, which is under and which is just right, not only by just looking at them in comparison, but because of their exposure, the first images exposure is very low, this means that the the image is overexposed, which means there is too much light getting into the lens of the camera. On the last image you can see that it is very dark, this would be because the image is underexposed, this means there isn't enough light getting into the lens, the exposure of this image is a lot higher than the under exposed image, this one is 1/100 but the underexposed is 1/30. Although, the middle image is of correct exposure, this means that the light getting into the image is correct, the exposures of the other two images were too high or too low, whereas this image is in the middle, it is at 1/60, not too high, not too low. To have the correct exposure you have to make sure that the line is at 0, if its too far to the left is is underexposed, too far to the right would be overexposed.

File Format Research

Compression:

JPEG

This is use to compress digital images, the amount of compression you use can be changed depending on how much you want.

RAW

RAW is a lossless format, meaning that information is not lost during the process, but this file format is bigger to save.

TIFF

 TIFF files may be edited and re-saved without losing image quality due to it using lossless compression.

PSD

stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colours, clipping paths, and duo-tone settings.

Lossy, Lossless, LSW Compression:

Lossy Compression

 This is a form data compression in which some amount of data is lost.

Lossless Compression

This is a form of data compression in which the data can be reconstructed.

LSW Compression

This compression type is lossless meaning you will not lose quality of the file when you compress it.

What happens when the file is repeatedly edited and saved and compressed to JPEG?

When this happens the original image cannot be restored so this would of used a lossy compression as parts of the data would of been lost in the saving process.

What does 8-bit, 24-bit and 48-bit mean when referring to digital files?

8-bit

This is a method of storing image information in a computer's memory or in an image file, such that each pixel is represented by one 8-bit byte.

24-bit

This provides a method for representing and storing graphical image information in a RGB colour space.

48-bit

 2 to the power of 48 (281,474,976,710,656 colours) this file format involves very deep colouring.

Which file types support photoshop layers?

A PSD file would be able to support photoshop layers 

Which file types support non-destructive cropping?

PSD and RAW would be able to support  non-destructive cropping

Which file types support clipping paths?

A JPG file would be able to do this.

What are the benefits of digital negatives?

They have a wider dynamic range and better colours

They preserve most of the information of the captured image

They also give you better detail in your image and make it easier to edit.

Welcome Message.

Hello!

This is my AS Photography blog, where I will be posting my coursework over the next year. It will have photographs i have taken and edited myself along with evaluations and step by step of what i did.

Enjoy!