Lo2: Lighting

Location	Time of Day used	Lighting issues	Additional light needed
Peace Gardens	Nov morning	Loses light if overcast, reflections from water can cause lens flare. Must be taken from fountain entrance to avoid shadow and bleaching.	No – outside in daylight
Cheese Grater	Nov Morning	Loss of light if overcast and the cars going past can cause lens flare.	No- Outside during the daytime, no overcast also not possible to do on a building that big
Arts Tower	Nov Morning	Loss of light cause by overcast, lens flare can occur through the reflection from the tower. The shot must be taken from the back as otherwise there would be a ridiculous amount of lens flare	No- Outside in daylight
Kettles	Nov morning	Loss of light caused by overcast and lens flare could be caused through the reflection of the sun on the kettles.	No-Natural light will be used
Sheffield	Nov afternoon	Loss of light due to over cast and must be taken from a distance due to size of city.	No- outdoor natural lighting used, can be touched up in Photoshop if needed
Matilda Street *4	Nov afternoon	Loss of light could be cause by an overcast. It must be taken from the inside entrance to the dilapidated building, it’s not meant to look pretty.	No- Natural light will be fine also it’s okay if it looks bleak it will just add an effect to the image.

LO2: Permission from models and locations

As none of my photos contained images of people I did not need to get anyones permission, for the buildings sites and other areas of of sheffield I did not need to get anyones permission so again their was no need again for any documentation.

Lo1Script for Photostory

Title Screen

Types Of Photography

Duration: 20 sec

Script: Portrait Photography

Visual: Salvador Dali smoke

Portrait photograph is taking  a picture of a person or group displaying  the expression, mood, and personality of the subject. The purpose of this image is to be used as art for Salvador Dali. Portrait photograph is taking a picture of a person or group displaying the expression, mood, and personality of the subject.

This photo is very interesting as it is dose not focus predominantly on the face but more on what is happening around him with the smoke and what it is forming.

Visual: Winston Churchill
Duration: 20 sec

This portrait photo by Philippe Halsman displays the emotion going through the prim ministers mind during the war and would have been used for newspapers of the time. 

Visual: Salvador Dali Cats Photo

This is another photo by Philippe Halsman that shows how portrait photography dose not have to focus just on the face but how it can draw your attention too the surroundings. This photo would have been used for art.

Script: Macro Photography

Visual: Bug Photograph

Duration: 20sec

Macro photography is photography focusing on small objects using extreme close-ups to get as much detail as possible. This Photo, by Robert Thompson, uses an extreme close up to focus in on a wasp. This type of photography would most likely be used in magazines or documentary.

Visual: Birds

Duration: 15sec

This Image is of two birds shown with an extreme close up. The photo is by Robert Thompson, a professional macro photographer from Northern Ireland.

War Photography

Visual: Vietnamese man with a gun held to his head

Duration: 15 sec

War photography is the idea of capturing devastating or sometimes inspirational photos of war that are generally used for provocation.  This photograph is by Eddie Adams who is famous for his photography throughout the Vietnam War.

Visual: Eddie Adams Vietnam War photograph

Duration: 15sec

Eddie Adams served in the United States Marine Corps as a photographer and later won awards for his work. This Image shows the pure emotion of soldiers at war and victims of the war and is a fantastic example of war photography and the use of the rule of thirds.

Script: Sports Photography

Visual: Olympic Snowboarder

Duration:  15sec

Sports photography is used to capture the raw emotion of the victors or the losers of an event containing sports. It also captures events in sports. This photo, by Bob Martin, shows the pure determination and athleticism that goes into being a professional athlete and is a perfect example of sports photography.

Visual: American Olympic Bobsleigh Team

Duration: 15 sec

The Sports Photographer, Bob Martin is a multi-award winning sports photographer specializing in shooting action, graphic and editorial pictures for advertising, corporate and editorial clients.

Visual:  Olympic Snowboarder

Duration: 10 sec

 Bob Martin has photographed every major sporting event; from the last thirteen Summer and Winter Olympics, to Elephant Polo and Horse Racing on Ice.

Tilt Shift Photography

Visual: Truck

Duration: 15sec

Tilt shift photography is using an extreme wide lens to focus on large objects to make them look small. This photograph shows a tuck that looks like a toy because of the use of an extreme wide-angle lens to make it look smaller than it actually is.  

Visual: City

Duration 10sec

Again here in this photograph the use of an extreme wide angle lens gives the impression that the city is very small, almost toy like. 

Landscape Photography

Visual: Fay Goodwin reflection

Duration: 15 sec

Landscape photography is the focus on different spaces throughout the world. Although most tend to focus on elements from nature others focus on man made objects or disasters. These photos generally contain little or no human activity within them.

Visual: Snake River

Duration: 10 sec  

This example of landscape photography by Ansel Adams shows how the wide angle lens is used to focus on the beauty of nature. This photograph is a beautiful example of the use of a wide angle lens to create landscape photography.

KTA 3: Profesionals Notes

What Duncan Philpot talked about:
Photojournalism

Editorial outlets

-          Websites

-          Newspapers

-          Magazines

How he got into Photography

·         He got into photography when he was 13

·         Started to look on websites with sites like Flickr

·         Photography AS level

·         He meet with people and started to get involved with the industry

He is a photographer predominantly for Cycling

How does the cycling industry work?

Companies and the majority of editorial producers aren’t   sourcing images through agencies

Gear

Cameras

-          Weatherproof

-          Fast and Responsive

-          Cant miss that one moment

Lenses

-          Fast

-          Weatherproof

CSP Support- much like you would service a car

Off Camera lighting

Moving equipment around

-          Flying

-          Walking

-          Protecting

The Pole

Travel

Adventure Sport

World Race Series

Expensive overheads

-          Team deals vs. Freelance

Travelling with friends

Work Hours

Paperwork

-          Invoices

-          Tax returns

-          Article proposals

Planning Shoots

-          Short lists

-          Location scouting

Hours

-          Bed at 2:00am up at 6:30am

-          Traveling- Half days rates.

Work Flow

What do you do when you’ve taken the photos?

-          Tagging

-          Cutting thousands to tens

Client Selections

Editing choices

Developing a style

-          Genre of photography

-          Progressing onto a style of shooting

When the client wants something different

-          Clean catalogue, technical photos and studio work

-          Being a well-rounded photographer

Valdimir Rys

-          Formula 1

KTA 2: Resources gathered on photographers/styles

Types Of Photography

Landscape

Landscape photography can focus on vast or minimal parts of the landscape and generally focus on nature but they also sometimes focus on man made objects throughout the world. Most landscape photography show little or no human activity and are created in the pursuit to capture a description of nature.  

William Neill

I like this photo as it focuses on very minimal aspects of the landscape in the fog and yet it manages to look peaceful and beautiful at the same time. The image also has a shadow reflection as the fog is so thick making it look like cloudy water.

Portrait 

Portrait photography is the photography of people demonstrating personality, expression and mood of the subject matter. The main focus point in portrait photography is the persons face although the background and body may also hold an important role. 

Philippe Halsman

I like this picture as it shows how technology and placement of objects can be used to alter a photo and make it more exciting. The expression shown really demonstrates the nature of this picture as if what he paints has come to life.  The photo also uses the contrast of light and dark to show what is occurring within the photo, it is not an ordinary portrait. 

Documentary

Documentary photography is used to capture significant events in history and show how different events are shaping our future. this type of photography is used also to show emotion and are ment to have an impact on the way we see things.

Felix Lupa 

I like this image as it conveys the dire situation that is occurring throughout our world, using dark colours to emphasise the way in which people all over the world live today. The contrast in light is also very well done to create the feeling of emptiness and sorrow.  

Band

Band photography are photographs  that focuses on the art and skill of capturing photographic images of musical acts at live performances or in staged posed photo shoots.

Ross Halfin

I like this photo as the lighting within it is focused on the subject and the subject is also slightly off centre to draw more attention to him. This photo also demonstrates the way the musician feals about the way he plays, full of raw emotion and feeling.

Macro Photography

Macro photography is an extreem close up on something small to make it look big. 

Our Attempt at Portrait Photography  

This was our first attempt at taking a portrait photo (hero shot). The things that worked well was that our group managed to work somewhat well with minor distractions. The things that didn't work well is that a lot of our photographs are out of focus and also they never look that good even when we tried to use the photographic composition to suit these photos. We also tended to delete a lot of photos that we perhaps should have kept so that we could see what had gone wrong and see how we could correct them for the future. 

How Photoshop Helped Us

Photoshop helped us remove unwanted blemishes and make us look slightly more presentable (although it didn't help much) it also allowed us to make some rather frightening photographs. 


Original 

Enhanced (sort of) 

Original 

Enhanced

As you can see from the photos above, maybe not the the first enhancement, you can see that I was able to reduce the amount of blemishes and make the photo brighter/look overall better. Although these are very simple techniques they do help a lot with the presentability of them. 

More Research

http://prezi.com/ofwlkjub_kst/types-of-photography/