Ranbom Roll + Book Project Idea

11 BOOK

2++ Contact Sheets & 12 Prints in a Book with a Cover (cover can be same image as one in book).

Photograph a basic topic (i.e. flowers) and compile a series of 12 photos in a book. Each image should have a strong composition and be able to stand on its own, but share a common thread. The book should be no more than 5 x 7 in size and must have a cover that reflects the contents of the book with a title and your name. Each image should be framed in a unique way that showcases your series effectively. You must take at least two "rolls" (min. 20 images each) or engage in 2+ shoots to construct your series and submit at least 2 contact sheets of your idea development.

Here are some links to inspire your concentration/book projects... to name a few...

Anne Geddes- Babies

Phil Borges - Women

Robert Frank - Americans

Richard Avedon - American West (look under archive, and portraits)

Andreas Gursky - Consumerism

Mary Ellen Mark - Mexican Circus

Colleen Plumb - Animals Are Outside Today

Sandy Skoglund - Installation works based on pixels.

Misha Gordon - Manipulated political photographs.

Michael Kenna - B/W Large Format Landscapes minimalist

Scott Edwards - Extreme close up botanical forms

Lois Greenfield - Dance portraits 

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My Topic: Hands

Inspiring Photographs of Hands

Photoshop Tutorial Results

Tutorial #1: Photoshop Mama's Sketch Tutorial 

Original Image

After Applying the Effect

Tutorial #2: Selectively Colorize an Image

Original Image

After Applying the Effect



Tutorial #3 (My own choice):  Photoshop tutorial: making text photo
** Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=DCWloOrUm9E 

 Original Image

 After Applying the Effect

Tutorial #4 (My own choice): How To Create Multi-Colored Glowing Lines 

 ***Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsm14uE_gYc

Original Image

After Applying the Effect

Picture of the Year 2011

Find your 3 favourite photos from the following sites:
Top 2011 News Stories
New Years 2012 from Around the World
Christmas Images Around the World
Top 2011 News Stories from Reuters

Here's what you do:

1. Select your 3 favourite "news" photo from 2011, msnbc.com, Reuters, and the NewYears fom msnbc.
2. Upload to blog.
3. Answer the questions below for all three.
4. Comment why it is your favourite.
5. Explain what the event is. What is the significance of the event/photo?
6. Describe the photos, how does the image document the event/ how does the image tell the story?
7. Identify the main subject and what emphasizes it. (Leading lines, repetition, rule of thirds, contrast, framing).

(1) Christmas Images Around the World

a) Comment why it is your favourite.

I like the emphasis of the stars hanging on the trees, up on the church, and the crowd of people.

By simply looking at the picture without captions, it is hard to figure out whether it was morning or night. Yet, because the sky is dark, the stars seem to stand out even more .

b) Explain what the event is. What is the significance of the event/photo?

The event is taking place in Manila, Philippines. Thousands of people attended the morning mass to celebrate the beginning of Christmas. Attending the early morning mass for nine consecutive days leading to Christmas is a religious tradition in Philippine. I can't imagine that happening in here where thousands of people gather together for several days until Christmas outside.

c) Describe the photos, how does the image document the event/ how does the image tell the story?

Since there are priests having mass in the altar outside and crowds of people sitting, looking towards the altar, I can figure out that it is the special mass for Christmas. Especially, the decoration of the stars makes it clear that it is close to Christmas.

 
d) Identify the main subject and what emphasizes it. (Leading lines, repetition, rule of thirds, contrast, framing).

 I think the main subjects are people and stars. The contrast b/w the stars and the dark background, as well as the repetition of the stars and people emphasize the subject.

(2) New Years 2012 from Around the World

a) Comment why it is your favourite.

I like how the people who usually be the subject seem to be background in this picture. The darkness created by these people help emphasizing the cross they are holding as well as the bright candles in front of them.
b) Explain what the event is. What is the significance of the event/photo?

The people in this picture are Pakistani Christians who are holding cross, praying for the peace in the new year.
c) Describe the photos, how does the image document the event/ how does the image tell the story?

I can feel how desperately these people are wishing for the peace in Pakistan through their impressive, serious expression. Since there are so much wars have been happening in Pakistan, it is no doubt that the Christians in this country would deadly wish for the end of the war, waiting for the peace.

d) Identify the main subject and what emphasizes it. (Leading lines, repetition, rule of thirds, contrast, framing).

 The main subject seem to be the cross people are holding and the candles in front. Also, I noticed that the frame created by two cross emphasize the firm grip and serious expression of the man.

(3) Top 2011 News Stories from Reuters

a) Comment why it is your favourite.

Recently, I watched a documentary about the life in Tonj, Sudan. In this documentary, since the people in Sudan are so used to hardship, poverty, and diseases, they merely cry. However, in this picture, I can see the man's eyes are wet and feel that this man is deeply moved.

b) Explain what the event is. What is the significance of the event/photo?

This picture portrays the moment of the rehearsal for Independence Day ceremony in July 5, 2011. Sudan has su

A Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier stands in line during a rehearsal of the Independence Day ceremony in Juba July 5, 2011.

c) Describe the photos, how does the image document the event/ how does the image tell the story?

Although the men behind the soldier are all blurred, it is quite clear that all the soldiers lined up for the rehearsal. Also, teary eyes of the soldier in front tells us that the event is very significant for him.


d) Identify the main subject and what emphasizes it. (Leading lines, repetition, rule of thirds, contrast, framing).
 The main subject is the soldier in front and the way he is emphasized is repetition. (there are some indications at the background although they are blurred.)

Define the following, put in your journal:

1. Aperture/F-stop-The aperture stop of a photographic lens can be adjusted in order  to control the amount of light reaching the film. In combination with variation of shutter speed, the aperture size will regulate the film’s or image sensor’s degree of exposure to light. Usually, a fast shutter speed requires a larger aperture to allow sufficient light exposure, and a slow shutter speed requires a smaller aperture to avoid too much exposure.
   

   Diagram of decreasing aperture sizes (increasing f-numbers) for “full stop” increments (factor of two aperture area per stop)
2. Aperture Priority-setting on some cameras that allows the user to choose a specific shutter speed while the camera adjusts the aperture to ensure correct exposure. It is different from manual mode, which the user has to decide both values, aperture priority where the user picks an aperture with the camera selecting the shutter speed to match, or program mode where the camera has to select both.
3. Ambient Light-Ambient light is the available light in a room, whether by natural or mechanical sources.
4. Artificial Light-Artificial lighting is any lighting that is not sunlight.
   
   Generally speaking, artificial lighting is lighting which is man made, such as fluorescent, tungsten, mercury vapor, sodium vapor, halogen, compact fluorescent, et cetera. It can be turned on and off at a flick of a switch.
   
   There are also very special types of artificial light for specific purposes Such as infared heat lamps, ultraviolet lights for plant growth and tanning, et cetera.
   
   In photography, different light sources have a different color temperature which can be compensated for with special filters or simulated with special lighting. A flash simulates the light of the sun for a fraction of a second.
5. ASA/ISO/Film Speed-Film speed is the measure of a photographic film's sensitivity to light, determined by sensitometry and measured on various numerical scales, the most recent being the ISO system.
   A closely related ISO system is used to measure the sensitivity of digital imaging systems.
   Relatively insensitive film, with a correspondingly lower speed index requires more exposure to light to produce the same image density as a more sensitive film, and is thus commonly termed a slow film. Highly sensitive films are correspondingly termed fast films.
   In both digital and film photography, the reduction of exposure corresponding to use of higher sensitivities generally leads to reduced image quality (via coarser film grain or higher image noise of other types). In short, the higher the sensitivity, the grainier the image will be.
6. Bracket-the general technique of taking several shots of the same subject using different or the same camera settings. Bracketing is useful and often recommended in situations that make it difficult to obtain a satisfactory image with a single shot, especially when a small variation in exposure parameters has a comparatively large effect on the resulting image. Autobracketing is automatic bracketing by using a setting on the camera to take several bracketed shots (in contrast to the photographer altering the settings by hand between each shot). Given the time it takes to accomplish multiple shots, it is typically, but not always, used for static subjects.
7. Depth of Field-Depth of field refers to the range of distance that appears acceptably sharp. It varies depending on camera type, aperture and focusing distance, although print size and viewing distance can also influence our perception of depth of field. This tutorial is designed to give a better intuitive and technical understanding for photography, and provides a depth of field calculator to show how it varies with your camera settings.
8. Exposure Triangle-   1. written a post on ISO – the measure of a digital camera sensor’s sensitivity to light. 2. Aperture – the size of the opening in the lens when a picture is taken 3. Shutter Speed – the amount of time that the shutter is open
9. How to Control Depth of Field-The aperture ranges from f/1.4 (a super-fast lens) to f/22, with increments in between (f/2, f2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11 and f/16). Each f/number up or down represents one “stop” of light, such that when you move from f/4 to f/5.6 you’re letting ½ as much light, and if you move from f/16 to f/11 you letting in twice as much light. This number ratio is the same across all lenses, regardless of focal length… making it really easy to understand the concept across lenses. By understanding how the aperture works, you can utilize the hyperfocal distance for each lens for maximum effect. The hyperfocal distance is basically a point in which you focus and everything from that point to infinity will be sharp. When you want your landscapes to blow everyone’s mind, you have to master hyperfocal distance.
10. Light Meter- a device used to measure the amount of light. In photography, a light meter is often used to determine the proper exposure for a photograph. Typically a light meter will include a computer, either digital or analog, which allows the photographer to determine which shutter speed and f-number should be selected for an optimum exposure, given a certain lighting situation and film speed.

11s Aperture/Macro Project

You are to explore the aperture through the camera lens while getting super close to your subject. Your subject is up to you, but you are going to get real close to it. 

Try a few different angles, and subjects. Try different aperture settings also. 

Since you are really close, your depth of field, or range of focus will be radically short, so you will have a short-short, medium-short and a longer-short depth of field. 

I would like to see a bit of a range. 

In the end, print or post a contact sheet and three of your best photos put in your journal.
Due Dec16th including your definitions and found examples of aperture and macro/close-up photos. 

 5 Examples of Macro photos

 

Examples of short, medium, long Depth of Field

Short depth of field

Medium depth of field

long depth of field

Definition of depth of field & explain how to control it with your camera

Aperture: The aperture stop of a photographic lens can be adjusted in order  to control the amount of light reaching the film. In combination with variation of shutter speed, the aperture size will regulate the film’s or image sensor’s degree of exposure to light. Usually, a fast shutter speed requires a larger aperture to allow sufficient light exposure, and a slow shutter speed requires a smaller aperture to avoid too much exposure.

The aperture affects the amount of light getting to the film or light sensitive paper. Basically,  the aperture is the part of a lens that determines how much light is going through to the sensor – if it’s wide open, lots of light gets through. If it’s closed down, less light gets through. Depth of field can  be manipulated by aperture. The objects closer or further away will be less sharp or less in focus. The closer or further away an object is from the focused area, the less sharp that object will be in a picture. The area where objects are “in focus” or sharp enough for the human eye to still perceive as “focused” is referred to as “Depth of Field”. The advantage of controling the depth of field is that you to make subjects in focus and the background to be blurred out when you open shutter and narrow down the depth of field. On the other hand, wide depth of field which makes the entire scene sharp and visiblke occurs when you widely open the aperture.

Random Roll November

RANDOM ROLL NOVERMBER

Painting with light

 Blur with freeze frame

 Blur with freeze frame

 Experiment

 Experiment

 Multiple exposure

 Painting with light

 Painting with light

 Painting with light

 Slow Blur

Slow Blur