Week 2 aperture reasearch

Research 2 photographers 

Sally mann

Sally Mann born 1951 is an American photographer, best known for her large black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.

Narrow DOF

Candy Cigarette 1989

This image uses a small f/ value which gives a narrow depth of field, the focul point is the girl holding the cigarette and everything else in the image is out of focus. The veiwers eyes are drawn to the focus point and it gives it a dramatic look.

 Wide DOF

1984-1991

In this image Sally Mann has used a wider depth of field for this image, all if the image is in focus but the high angle gives an innocent look to the boy and the DOF makes the image seem bigger and dense.

Tanu Gago

Born in Sāmoa and raised in Manukau City, Tanu Gago belongs to a large family with a diverse cultural background. Gago draws on his unique perspective and life in South Auckland to make art that directly engages with urban social issues including the fluid nature of ethnic and gender identities. In his 2010 solo exhibition You Love My Fresh at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Gago presented a projection constructed in three parts. The first work titled You Love My Fresh featured a composite of black and white urban photography emblazoned with bold yellow text. Phrases including ‘Your cultural experience makes me cynical, violent and resentful’ and ‘I feel redundant as a citizen of your first world’ bounced and shuddered across the screen, demanding attention. In his most recent body of work Avanoa o Tama, 2012 Gago presented a series of photographs of Polynesian men which destabilise preconceived notions of gender and sexuality. Gago challenges the social and cultural expectations surrounding the representation of gender by concentrating on the ambiguous and performative nature of masculinity and sexual identity.

I think this photo is amazingthe wide depth of field having everything in focus and the composition of the photo with the lighting , placement and time of day really make this photo a stand out. i love that you can even see car in the back it makes it seem so authentic and the wide depth of feild brings this photo together by adding clear objects and features 

In this photo aswell as the top Tanu has used a Wide dpth of field

http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artist/8408/tanu-gago

Week 3 rule of thirds exerxcise

Manual mode

Take a landscape photo with the horizon on the bottom rule of thirds
the horizon line is where the sky meets the ground so as you can see in this photo I've put the horizon line at the bottom of rule of thirds lines showing more of the sky.

 Shutter speed 1/5000 aperture f/8.0 ISO100

 Take a landscape photo with the horizon on the top rule of thirds line
In this image the horizon line is not as predominant as the last image but i have placed as much of the horizon line as possible on the top of rule of thirds showing more ground .

Shutter speed 1/320 aperture f/8.0 ISO100

An image i took at black sand beach in waiuku i place the horizon at the top of the rule of thirds and her hands meet with the sun and horizon kind of in the centre, i dont like that there is a person standing in the background though.

Shutter speed 1/640 f/4.0 ISO160

Using a wider frame take a photo of someone and place your subject of thirds to guide your composition

Ive placed my subject in the rule of thirds intersecting lines 

shutter speed 1/160 aperture f/22.0 ISO 2000

We had some sports boys running through and we asked them to do a pyramid and i placed them on the rule of thirds intersecting lines  

shutter speed 1/320 aperture f/ 8.0 ISO100

Take a close up portrait and place your subjects eye on one of the rule of thirds intersecting lines
ive placed my subject on the right of the image so her eye is on the rule of thirds intersecting line

Take 3 more photos of your choice using the thirds to guide your composition

i placed my focus point near the centre and had a narrow depth of field, this photo was a fluke and i was just messing around but i really liked the outcome. I could focus more on my focus (lol) as the fucl point is soft.

Shutter speed 1/500 f/2.0 ISO100

I seem to favour the narrow depth of field and high shutters 

in this photo I've focused on a close up of my subjects face having the rest of the body fade out of shot . i have placed my subject on the left of rule of thirds , her eye is not on the intersecting line because i was afraid her head would be out of frame. in a way this photo is a fail because i didn't use rule of thirds correctly also the focus of her face is quite soft next time i will focus on her eyes

Shutter speed1/1250 f/1.8

in this image i placed my focus subject in the centre of rule of thirds and placed her bunny on and intersecting line so there is more space on the left of the image.

shutter speed 1/80 f/5.6 ISO3200

Week 3 Vantage point exercise

Take  High angle portraits with narrow DOF

I used a narrow DOF in this image , you can tell by the blur in the back ground , i took these images standing on a step and looking down at my subject, my focus point was suppose to be her face but she moved and the focus point is the camera..

f/ 1.8 shutter speed 1/400 ISO100

f/2.0 Shutter speed 1/500 ISO100

In this photo i used a f/ of 1.8 which is the lowest for my lens i also place my subject on the right of the frame and focused on her eyes, this high angle close up gives her an innocent look (besides the fact that shes only 2) and the narrow DOF along with placement of the subject gives it a dramatic feel. shooting from a higher angle makes the subject seem more vunrable or powerless when applied correctly.

shutter speed 1/60 f/1.8 ISO400

Take some portraits in which your subject is in the foreground. compose the shot so that there are elements in the mid ground and background

f/22.0 Shutter speed 1/15 ISO400

Take some low angle photographs with a wide DOF and some with a narrow DOF

Using a large f/ i took this photo of some architecture in Otara town centre i find this angle makes it seem taller and towering , lower angles seem to make you feel smaller and are kinda intimidating  

f/18.0 shutter speed 1/100 ISO400

street scape

In this photo i stood on a train station bridge over the Penrose rail way and angled down, i used a wide depth of field so all of the photo is in focus a medium shutter means the motion is frozen.

shutter speed 1/60 f/22 ISO100

In this image i used a narrow depth of field and the edges of the image are soft , i don't like this image because it looks blurred the focus point was the truck but that too is still blurred.

shutter speed 1/6400 f/1.8 ISO100

This is a high angle street scape/ rail scape photo i too with a wider depth of feild 

Shutter 1/60 f/22 ISO100

Take 3 Low angle portraits using wide DOF 

For this photo i lay on the floor and sit my subject on the couch, looking up this angle makes her look powerful and intimidating , but i think there is to much negative space at the top that could have been filled to make the photo more interesting. The way shes gazing at her bunny leads your eyes to it .

in this image i have lay on the floor looking up at my subject placing her on the right and cropping out her legs, she was suppose to be the focus of the image but i misfocused and the background is more in focus 

Digital Technology 1 Week 3 Day 2 Camera raw

Use the adjustment panel to turn your background black and white leaving the subject in colour

In this image i didn't actually use the adjustment panel to change the background black because i didn't read properly, instead i used the adjustment brush and turned down the saturation and coloured the background black and white instead,

leaving the red van full colour.

Straighten some of your own images experimenting with the rotate tool, the straighten tool, the crop tool and automatic straightening.

i did this photo at home and for some reason my photoshop doesn't have the ruler to straighten so for this photo i used the lens correction panel and clicked the A and it automatically straightened  

Find a slightly underexposed portrait. use the adjustment panel to adjust the exposure of your subject while leaving the background underexposed

using the basic panel I've used the exposure slider to bring more detail into the photo then used the adjustment brush brought up the exposure and coloured the bottle, plate and cup in the back of the  image, using mask i made sure that i brushed in the correct places and used the eraser to get rid of any adjustments i have made on part of the image i didn't want to adjust   

choose one landscape/streetscape and one portrait photo . use the hsl grey scale to convert to black and white .

using the HSL panel i converted converted this photo to black and white i also brought up the exposure because it is quite unexposed but i did want to keep it a bit dark and bring out the pattern reflection in the mirror. i was taking photos of a fan outside when i looked up this guy was just standing here waiting lol

in this photo i used the default on the HSL panel and then used the targeted adjustment brush to slightly bring  out other colours so its not so flat 

Camera use week 4 line pattern

Take 3 photos filling frame with pattern
Choose some of these patterns to photograph.  Experiment with angle.

Take 3 photos filling the frame with pattern.

 Shutter Speed 1/25 f/6.3 ISO200

Shutter speed 1/500 f/6.3 ISO200

Shutter speed 1/60 f/9.0 ISO100

Take a wider shot so there is negative space in the frame

Shutter speed 1/60 f/22.0 ISO100

Find or create a pattern that has been disrupted

Take at least 3 different photographs of leading lines. 

Shutter speed 1/60 f/22.0 ISO125

Shutter speed 1/60 f/4.0 ISO640

Shutter speed 1/200 f/22.0 ISO100

Week 2 aperture excercise

Aperture

Aperture refers to the opening of the lenses diaphragm which allows light to pass through. Aperture is measured in f stops .a lower f stop means a larger opening , more light and a shallow depth of field , a higher f stop means a smaller opening , less light and a deeper depth of field.

Depth of field is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear  sharp in an image.

as you can see in this example a small f stop equals a larger opening and a shallower depth of field

and a larger f stop means a smaller opening and a wider depth of field.

Narrow DOF= low f stop
Wide DOF= high f stop

Take a landscape photo with a wide depth of field
Because i used a wide depth of field meaning there was very little light let in because the opening is small so i had to lower my shutter to let in more light and balance my camera on a table.
Using a wide depth of field means everything in this image is in focus

f/22.0 Shutter speed 1/8 ISO100

Take a close up portrait using a narrow depth of field
Using a narrow depth of field i took a close up portrait of my subject meaning a small f/ . because its a narrow DOF my subject is in focus and the background is blurred.

 f/ 1.8 Shutter speed 1/1250 ISO100


Take a photo of an object with a narrow depth of field
You can see the difference between a narrow DOF and a wide DOF with these two photos of the water bottle.
Narrow allows the subject to be the focus point and the surrounding area to be out of focus.
i personally prefer a small f/ rather than a larger f/

f/4.0 Shutter speed 1/3200 ISO100


Take the same shot again this time with a wide depth of field
But with a narrow DOF although the water bottle is still the focal point the surrounding area is clear

f/22.0 Shutter speed 1/80 ISO100

Take a photograph with 3 elements one in the foreground one in mid ground and one in the back ground. focus on the element in the for ground . shoot this scene with the highest aperture and lowest aperture your lens will allow.

Using my lowest aperture i focused on the foreground and the mid and background are out of focus, this is narrow depth of feild creating dramatic effect to a simple picture of a candle.

shutter speed 1/160 f/4.0 ISO100

using my highest aperture all objects in frame are in focus

Take a photo of an object with a wide DOF and shoot the same scene using a narrow DOF

Shutter speed 1/100 f/22.0 ISO1000

Shutter Speed 1/320 f/4.0 ISO100

Take an environmental portrait with everything in the frame in focus.

 i used a mid f/ and shutter speed all the subjects and background and mid ground are in focus because ive used a f/ value that would capture it this way.  i love this photo of my uncles. 

Shutter speed 1/60 f/5.0 ISO 100