tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39626188420086534662024-02-20T10:41:56.419-08:00Jeff Hurst's photo blogLearning log for 'The Art of Photography'Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-79463885267626857002012-02-24T06:54:00.000-08:002012-02-24T06:54:00.499-08:00Narrative and Illustration: Project - Illustration<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: juxtaposition</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: The aim of this exercise is to put together two elements so as to suggest a relationship (juxtaposition). The options were to illustrate a book cover or photograph someone with a possession, or the results of their work or hobby. I chose the latter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results: </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I tried a number of different ideas for this. I spent time at a stables where a friend of mine looks after the horses. I took a number of shots of her working but they were all a bit static and not overly interesting. Also horses are very dark when in the stables as the lighting is dim and they do what they fancy when they are outside (I'm not a big fan and wasn't getting that close) making the shot a bit hit and miss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I changed tack and I finally settled on this image which is Ed working on an amplifier with the finished product in the foreground. This links what Ed does through the job he is photographed doing through to the finished product. Between Ed and the finished amplifiler is a checklist and pen suggesting an order of events. There are lines from the amp and the workspace leading into the frame pointing towards Ed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I found it quite difficult to meet the brief and get an interesting picture. There need to be certain elements to make the picture work for the brief and certain elements that make the picture interesting. Making a more eye catching picture often resulted in losing the reason for taking it.</span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-12865571627372783792012-02-02T06:22:00.000-08:002012-02-03T11:36:32.987-08:00Narrative and Illustration: Project - Illustration<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: Rain</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: The aim of this exercise is to produce a magazine cover shot on the subject of rain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results: As the course materials state, I didn't want to go for a rainy middle distance street shot as it lacks impact. I tried a number of shots in the rain with varying degrees of success, mostly taken in the back garden. These were close-ups of raindrops hanging on various objects; pine trees and a washing line. The washing line was a rotary line folded up with a cobweb on it which created quite a nice illustration of a long wet summer but it lacked any impact or vibrance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I decided the way forward was to create my own rain. I chose to create a drowned place setting on a patio table. This was small enough to 'rain' on and still look authentic. Doing this in the back garden at -2c had its challenges. First off the hose pipe sprinkler head was frozen so I broke the ice on the watering can and used that instead. I used a dark glass table and I chose a glass plate and two glasses for the set-up, keeping the main colour blue with a corresponding orange accent. Funnily I've blogged before about my dislike of orange/blue combinations but I hold my hand up and say this worked well. To light the subject I used natural daylight (it was actually a bright sunny day) as I thought flash might make things a little too phony. I arrange the scene so the light came from the side, capturing the raindrops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For the composition I chose a simple set-up with lines leading to the top left hand corner and the orange accent of centre and slightly raised. The fork leads the eye to the accent. I chose a depth of field that would drop the blue glass slightly out of focus to maintain interest on the orange glass. the inspiration came from Andre Kertesz 'The fork' 1928. That said, the composition could not be too contrived as I wanted it to represent someone being caught out by the weather. You can imagine someone dashing for cover as the heavens open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I took the shot with a cable release in one hand and the watering can in the other, using 8 frames a second and waving the can around to ensure a good mix of pictures. The shutter speed was slow enough to create movement in the 'rain' (something that was missing from my earlier attempts).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, as you can see from the split tone shot below, the fantastic reflections that were present in the set-up, disappeared when I started pouring the water; obvious really? This was a shame because the shadow and reflection of the fork travel through the glass plate and are particularly effective. I love this shot but there is no rain!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stop press!! It sudddenly dawned on me that I have the test picture 'sans rain'. All I needed to do was combine the two. First I cloned the fork shadow into the rain picture but this was too well defined even with the opacity down at 50%. For the final image I used a gausian blur on the test picture and then cloned the blurred shadow at 50% into the rain image below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you compare this image to the first rain picture you can see the subtle but important difference the shadow makes, returning a depth that had been lost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">With shoots that involve any kind of action it is important to run it through to get a clear idea of the result; the disappearing reflections being point of fact.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Even if a picture illustrates your point this does not make it interesting, dramatic or eye catching. My early attempts were perhaps more illustrative but were static and dull by comparison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: The aim of this exercise is to find symbols for the following subjects and add short notes on how you would use them in a photograph. The symbols are growth, excess, crime, silence and poverty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Growth: A seedling. Cupped hands full of earth with a seedling growing out of the earth. A simple, natural, face on portrait of someone with cupped hands against a white background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Growth : A height chart or marks on a wall with dates by them. Two children, one taller than the other with the smaller one reaching up to the older ones height marks enviously.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Excess: Lots of the same objects. I would represent them stuffed in a suitcase so full it won't close. It couldn't be anything expensive, such as watches as this would just look like theft!.This also has connotations of excess baggage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Excess: One of those excessively large and unnecessary 4x4s being filled up at a petrol station, preferably by a smaller person to help represent how unnecessary it is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Crime: The classic white outline on a floor suggesting a victim of a crime with a reason or motive in the background to create a juxtaposition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Crime: Bars on a window. This could be an individual window or a building with a line of barred windows or even a prison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Crime: A homeless person outside a bank (corporate crime/crime against humanity). I would use a recognisable high street bank rather than say, the Bank of England. In the current climate bankers bonuses are still in the news and are becoming a byword for legalised crime!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Silence: A face with a zip for a mouth. This can be easily done in Photoshop or just by taping it in place. A finger to someones lips, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Silence: A shot of a space that is supposed to be quiet such as a library or monastery with people obviously not making noise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Silence: The opposite to the above. A place that should be noisy but isn't; a football crowd that has just been relegated or is waiting for that vital penalty in the shoot out. Or an empty shopping mall that you would normally expect to be full, perhaps with a lone figure walking through such as a security guard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Poverty: Homeless person - Here is a shot I took in Paris of a homeless person complete with crutches either side, beer cans, posessions hanging on the railings and.....mobile phone. I took it with the camera by my side so not to be noticed. The AF picked up the chain in front. Call it serendipity but it seems to highlight the trap that homeless people find themselves in, especially with the padlock hanging on the chain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Poverty: A top down view of a weathered hand with a few pence in it. A simple shot, outdoors with nothing else in the frame. The juxtaposition of the weathered hand linked to the small change suggesting a life of poverty.</span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-65261546788719000512011-12-23T08:23:00.000-08:002011-12-23T08:23:16.153-08:00Open Eye study visit<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently attended an OCA study visit to the Open Eye gallery in Liverpool to see exhibitions by Mitch Epstein and Chris Steele-Perkins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mitch Epstein: American Power (2003-9) examines how energy is produced and used in the American landscape, exploring the effects of mass consumption and the interaction of nature, government and corporations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were eight photos from the American Power series on display at the gallery which may not sound much but they were approximately 4x4.5 feet and extremely detailed. Some of the pictures were difficult to view because of reflections due to their location in the gallery. One part of the gallery had a high ceiling which provided a better lighting angle. Galleries with low ceilings tend to have the lights reflecting in the photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Biloxi, Mississippi</em> (2005) shows the result of hurricane Katrina. Cars overturned and matresses in trees showing the ultimate power of nature that cannot be stopped or reasoned with. <em>Martha Murphy and Charlie Christian, Mississippi</em> (2005) also shows outcomes from hurricane Katrina with the two people sitting behind remaining posessions. This picture also brings in to play the power of religion and government symballised by the clear dog tag and cross round the necks of the main charachters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same 'ultimate power' also exists on other levels; the ultimate power of corporate vs the individual. If you take <em>Poca high school and Amos coal power plant, West Virginia </em>(2004) you see the town in the shadow of the huge coal power plant, literally in peoples' back gardens. Epstein discovered this corporate power to his cost on a number of occasions when being moved on by police with the excuse that the power company didn't allow pictures, enforcing corporate law rather than constitutional.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>BP Carson refinery, California</em> (2007) pictures the refinery with a US flag draped over one side pointing to the link between oil and politics and the power struggle that goes with it. Interestingly the power of nature is still underlying in the form of the line of trees bent by the wind reminding us that it has ultimate power.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris Steele-Perkins: The pleasure principle, is a portrait of England in the 1980s. There were a greater number of smaller prints compared to Epstein giving the opportunity to capture a wider spectrum. Though difficult to view after the impressively large Epstien offerings, Steele-Perkins' images proved to be a bit of a trip down memory lane. Being in my 20s and living in London in the 80s I can recognise some of the images. I was very into the indie music scene so the shot of the 'David Sylvian look-a-like' in the night club brings it all back. The hypnotist at the college ball; they were very popular at one point but what happened to them all? They're probably helping people quit smoking these days! He has captured trends that were very much of the 80s and do not seem apparent today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found this picture of Margaret Thatcher rather disturbing. Over time Thatcher has become a characature in my mind (helped in no small part by Spitting Image). The white face and large mouth in this shot remind me of Jack Nicholson when he played the Joker in the first Batman film!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pleasure principle is the psychoanalytic concept describing people seeking pleasure and avoiding suffering (pain) in order to satisfy their biological and psychological needs. It is also the title of a Gary Newman album who is synonymous with the 80s (the album was in fact released in 1979). Steele-Perkins has caught the element of having a good time (the pleasure principle) but has done so with a certain unsavory tackiness about it. That said, there is more humour than, say, Martin Parr for example. The best example of this is probably Blackpool beach; a place that is always going to provide a rich vein of opportunity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I warmed to the Steele-Perkins images the more time I spent looking at them. Time that was necessary after looking at Epstein's large and beautifully produced prints.</span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-87020145623877137342011-12-18T10:07:00.001-08:002011-12-31T06:37:36.026-08:00thermal portrait<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the current (autumn 2011) issue of Photoworks there is an artical on Kenji Hirasawa whose uses a thermal imaging camera to capture portraits. A few months back I visited Jodrell Bank where they have a thermal imaging camera. I took this picture of myself and my partner by photoing the display from the camera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used the fold out screen so that the camera was not in the shot. What captured my interest was the difference in temperature. I'm much warmer than Katya and she has a conspicuously cold nose having been outside! It's an interesting way of looking at people that I've only seen before in airports in China (when the bird flue was scare was on).</span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-39795287693620190662011-12-09T05:52:00.000-08:002011-12-22T10:09:49.282-08:00Narrative and Illustration: Project - Narrative<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: A narrative picture essay</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim; the aim of this exercise is to capture an event or assignment in pictures using them to tell the story of the event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The main lesson to take away from this is to plan and research in advance. I already had the stages of the walk and what I wanted to capture in my head before the event. This ensures that you actually get the shots you were looking for. It's the difference between being proactive and reactive. Some things you can go back and capture but others you can't.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Take plenty of pictures. The more you take the better the choice. A picture that may not seem relevant may contain what you want when cropped.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div class="WordSection2"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Recently I arranged to join a wild food walk in Fletcher Moss Park in Manchester.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Park has a range of different habitats including woodland, fields and marshland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the United Kingdom we have a considerable array of plants and fungi that have the potential to make delicious wild foods. In fact once you get to know what is and what isn't edible, there really isn't much excuse for passing up on this great free food, especially since many wild foods are as good if not better in taste than the foods we buy in supermarkets.</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; page-break-after: avoid;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiksaskCU5_cClHbeUlijP1hf1PdfKViM6JAFTOqqPPugZ0jG1gT9Fki3fTV7tKMoDO2nKxPUTw0VNpMfChS63njQ1EJK42Eicu-xA4TiI3phvvyTaUG_dJgljSLrU7eLSJL8srarfYWo_2/s1600/great+find.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiksaskCU5_cClHbeUlijP1hf1PdfKViM6JAFTOqqPPugZ0jG1gT9Fki3fTV7tKMoDO2nKxPUTw0VNpMfChS63njQ1EJK42Eicu-xA4TiI3phvvyTaUG_dJgljSLrU7eLSJL8srarfYWo_2/s320/great+find.jpg" width="320" /></a><shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><formulas><f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></f><f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></f><f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></f><f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></f><f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></f></formulas><path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"></path><lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></lock></shapetype><shape id="Picture_x0020_1" o:spid="_x0000_s1031" style="height: 163.5pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-top: 0.35pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 246pt; z-index: 3;" type="#_x0000_t75"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><imagedata o:title="great find" src="file:///C:\Users\Jeff\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="square"></wrap></span></shape><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Chicken in the woods’, a large edible mushroom, growing freely on a fallen tree. <span style="color: #0070c0;">Notes: this picture does not have to be too big as the subject is clearly recognizable. I wanted the first shot to be something actually growing wild. There is no sense of scale here but this is dealt with later.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have been on these walks before and I know the area well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The person running the walk was Jesper Launder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesper is a consulting medical herbalist. He has been collecting and eating <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">wild mushrooms</span> for over 25 years and has a great interest in the food potential of Britain's field, hedgerows and woodlands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He not only knows whether you can eat something but also the potential of just about everything in front of you, including all the medicinal properties.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The walks are usually made up of a mix of people who (at the start) don’t necessarily know each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However it doesn’t take long before people start talking and sharing their mutual interest for wild food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The walks are informal with Jesper talking to the group about a particular plant or mushroom and then everyone having a try at finding it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXumQaxZ7bKGNW1CvPHMGlmzgb0l2KV25yUKiDLKq8dym3QbKHkcY8AFq9ZeAn_LN9eGQ23Qe-AkVkbaOjuAEaN_R_6D4E2RyIh1GwqB-VYjBKfp5K4C5Sd1enfVzdEQoUdNItnE38cOVJ/s1600/give+it+a+try+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXumQaxZ7bKGNW1CvPHMGlmzgb0l2KV25yUKiDLKq8dym3QbKHkcY8AFq9ZeAn_LN9eGQ23Qe-AkVkbaOjuAEaN_R_6D4E2RyIh1GwqB-VYjBKfp5K4C5Sd1enfVzdEQoUdNItnE38cOVJ/s640/give+it+a+try+4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Left - Wow; it really does taste of aniseed!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Notes; this picture shows Jesper explaining and people trying things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is important to capture people actually trying things for themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ‘love food hate waste’ bag is a nice prop.</span>Right -</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Jesper <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in full flow captivating his audience with his encyclopaedic knowledge<span style="color: #0070c0;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notes; Another example of instruction and interaction showing the teacher at work and also showing bags full of plants.</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8HStwfZXhqNCZ6Ap_M3Fz12mpzEks6_K6E3SxziYKB21jidwlgp5cIMd55y0Jz0I-I_TlY2RLCpm_nHpY5jC7lc6y7VQ756r4FZsxnjMv-DgX6pJgmrI6-xkyU1Y-82KCYxFUyqSjUJI/s1600/foraging.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8HStwfZXhqNCZ6Ap_M3Fz12mpzEks6_K6E3SxziYKB21jidwlgp5cIMd55y0Jz0I-I_TlY2RLCpm_nHpY5jC7lc6y7VQ756r4FZsxnjMv-DgX6pJgmrI6-xkyU1Y-82KCYxFUyqSjUJI/s400/foraging.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The highlight of the walk for most people is finding and identifying the vast amount of wild mushrooms, actually knowing that you can eat them without worrying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There do seem to be more poisonous ones out there though!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcUp2Dcza-wToWoRT8A5Wtfq-kpXe0_O39kIyPwmQUR1ncQP5sM_OoUS3QzKyhF3Y6bcru-8DuTpLxjuRdmJ_wuPG9lft8Qh5eo7sa9HW_fFvZH3MoS97eVBAjipTQxA71qrVCidAQikU5/s1600/fungus3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="275" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcUp2Dcza-wToWoRT8A5Wtfq-kpXe0_O39kIyPwmQUR1ncQP5sM_OoUS3QzKyhF3Y6bcru-8DuTpLxjuRdmJ_wuPG9lft8Qh5eo7sa9HW_fFvZH3MoS97eVBAjipTQxA71qrVCidAQikU5/s400/fungus3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><shape id="Picture_x0020_14" o:spid="_x0000_s1028" style="height: 240.75pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-top: 0.1pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 348.75pt; z-index: 4;" type="#_x0000_t75"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><imagedata o:title="fungus3" src="file:///C:\Users\Jeff\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image009.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="square"></wrap></span></shape><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Baskets brimming with an amazing collection of wild foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The huge ‘chicken in the woods’ mushroom was the star of the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0;">Notes; I wanted to capture the scale of the mushrooms and the excitement it created.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is always a great atmosphere on the walks generated by Jesper’s enthusiasm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People always get involved and there is a great sense of fun from toddlers to pensioners.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><img border="0" height="448" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Rm0qSvqNd6SiA1YMs-mdcrTIzDOlUm4KyqXmLBnaAVog6cEv1O6N62z5PzIhN4n77JMXI1_9LVMrHYXMMwYtzMdw79kuzVuPxTLJ6ERg3jxkChWws5IJhM0ZcOxkKJDL7E-sI2yeaLr8/s640/having+fun2.jpg" width="640" /></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is a great atmosphere and a sense of fun throughout the walk, with a wide range of ages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0;">Notes; I wanted a group of pictures that captured the atmosphere of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The picture on the left shows people interacting and having fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It needs to be larger than the other two to preserve detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Top right points to the age range of the group and that it is a child friendly day out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bottom right reinforces the sense of fun.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The end of the walk results in a cook up of all the edible mushrooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This takes place on the wall of the park using a couple of gas burners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is rare for a wild food walk as most people who run events like this do not have the professional indemnity that Jesper has as a consulting medical herbalist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s also one of the best bits!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You also get to go home with some as well.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjGHyzgfOTUdP0qaQERxPFrRBqOSDjDag_OpUZ23yItUH9RXl8MtxDczd2gpL67weRp0qepXCOhrtcQrOWsatW1k_SnkpghzCB2hJcX_fcQFGshWIUNMYb3a7GcVbJeTkUaHWUpDeMj38V/s1600/preparation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><shape id="Picture_x0020_4" o:spid="_x0000_s1027" style="height: 256.5pt; margin-left: 227.25pt; margin-top: 0.15pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 184.5pt; z-index: 5;" type="#_x0000_t75"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><imagedata o:title="ready for cooking" src="file:///C:\Users\Jeff\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image013.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="square"></wrap></span></shape><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next two shots were general interest/topical pictures that are quite clear and striking for their own reasons; the dedication of the Bob Marley fan with the design and the artist in the background and the results of errosion on the coastline creating sculpted patterns between the sea defences</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This shot was one that I took on the day of the pensions march in Manchester and uploaded straight away so that it could meet the deadline for the magazine for the next issue. I was mindful that this was the sort of shot they would go with so I put forward a selection from the march. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are a couple of images that didn't get in. There is a learning curve in working out what an editor prefers or will go with. This first shot wasn't used because the editor did not want any post modern industrial images. The second shot was too contentious. I thought this might be the case but put it forward to get the reaction. As an editor I can see why it he did not want the headache of the possible backlash but it did make me laugh that it was too contentious for the Big Issue.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been and still is an interesting challenge and now I often think about shots that will work for the Big Issue when I'm out. If I'm in it then I always buy an extra copy to send to the folks down south!</span></div>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-23998635613288902962011-12-05T05:01:00.000-08:002011-12-05T15:40:03.260-08:00Paris Photo<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year I finally made it to Paris Photo. It coincides with my birthday so that's two good reasons to go to Paris if ever I needed any! This is a brief post about my initial impressions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paris Photo is held in the Grand Palais which is worthy of a photograph or two itself. It is a fantastic glass and steel structure dominated by a huge central dome. The first thing that struck me was that, although there are curated sections, a large proportion of the exhibitors are independant galleries representing particular artists and selling a lot of older prints. This was an opportunity to see first hand many famous prints that up to now I had only seen in books; Fox Talbot, Arbus, Cartier Bresson, Brassai and Kertesz to name just a few. They were also all for sale if you felt like selling your house. Seeing these first hand made me really appreciate them in a way that I had perhaps not done before when looking at a poor, scaled down reproduction in a book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of the more contemporary photographers that stood out for me were Mikhael Subotzky, Yann Gross and Trine Sondergaard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Liu Bolin's invisible man series is incredibly well executed and full of humour. His ability to get the perspective and camera angle just right is quite brilliant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Du Zhenjun's incredibly intricate and detailed collages facinated me; so much going on creating a surreal but coherent landscape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Raphael Dallaporta's Antipersonnel series is a collection of images of antipersonnel mines isolated against a black background. I'm not sure about this as it almost elevates the status of a mine as a thing of beauty. The flip side is if this raises awareness of the vast number of mines in use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My favorite picture was Kim In Sook's 'Saturday Night'. This picture came together over a period of four years so the next time you're rushing something think about that. From her series Saturday Night, Kim In Sook has constructed the fantasy of every voyeur: The curtains are wide open in all 66 windows of a hotel, exposing the occupants as they go about their business. It is a facinating picture that is so full of detail. I felt that I couldn't leave until I'd checked out every room. Maybe that says more about me but there was a constant crowd doing the same thing. We are all nosey to a point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a lot more going on including Acqua by Giorgio Armani which is 'an exploration of the theme of water in photographs', selections from the J P Morgan Chase art collection including such artists as Andy Warhol and Garry Winogrand and much more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a lot to take in and a lot of walking but well worth it. I look forward to next year!</span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-86388048838159867152011-12-01T08:15:00.000-08:002011-12-01T08:16:44.529-08:00Narrative and Illustration: Project - Illustration<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: Evidence of action</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: The aim of this exercise is to produce a photograph that shows that something has happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results: I needed to frame a picture that I took at my tennis club finals day so I thought I'd use this as the subject. I needed to show that something had taken place so I chose to have the finished artical in the picture along with the the materials and tools. I wanted the remains of the mountboard in the shot as it is this that shows that something has actually happened. In fact, the tools, mountboard and picture are all necessary as without any one of them you have to assume more. I chose this composition as it follows the route of production from measuring to cutting to the final mounted print. The objects are placed pointing in the general direction of the print creating strong diagonals. I also like the limited range of colours; orange/browns and shades of green.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Learning points:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It is important to think about the steps in any action. When you create an image like this, you already know what the action is. You therefore need to look at it with fresh eyes to decide whether you would come to the same conclusion had someone else created the image.</span></div>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-60290580330536490372011-10-28T04:00:00.000-07:002011-10-28T04:00:01.056-07:00Diane Arbus at Tate Modern<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First off I'm not going to regurgitate what the art history books say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first encounter with Diane Arbus' images was in 1982 on the back cover of a 12" EP by the Sex Gang Children. They were an art school post punk band producing a strange collection of gothic type apocalyptic rantings (typical student stuff). At the time I didn't know whose photos were on the cover as there is no reference on the sleeve. I assumed that they were taken for the cover to underpin the shock value and mystery around the band. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Almost 30 years later and Arbus' images still facinate me whilst, I have to say, the Sex Gang Children's <em>'Beast'</em> EP hasn't survived so well!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The exhibition at Tate Modern takes over 3 rooms and includes <em>'a box of ten photographs',</em> a group of ten photographs selected and printed by Arbus as her definative portfolio during her lifetime. Diane Arbus is known for taking pictures of people on the periphery of society, from circus people to inmates in mental hospitals and nudest camps and had a committment 'to photograph everybody'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Arbus is generally thought of as sympathetic towards her subjects but this is not a view shared by all. Germaine Greer's experience of being photographed by Arbus is less complimentary (</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2005/oct/08/photography">http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2005/oct/08/photography</a>). Most of Arbus' portraits do not appear to over dramatise the subject. For me, she doesn't try to make people look like freaks but nor does she make any attempt to take them in a flattering way. The people themselves are the interest, not the situations they are put in and quite often unsettling in their own right. The context in which the subjects are put is usually quite subtle. Perhaps an exception to this is the <em>'boy with a toy hand grenade'</em> who is in a very deliberate pose. I always been a fan of this picture and it was in fact one of the images used on the EP I mentioned earlier. However, I have only recently seen the contact sheet below that shows some alternative shots taken at the time. These show the boy in a completely different light, from a confused angry child from a broken home to a boy without a care enjoying a day in the park with the rest of the family, demonstrating how a photographer can control the emotions and thoughts of the viewer. Interestingly, the final image is the only one showing the boy in this light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following pictures are both in the collection at the Tate and are typical subjects for Arbus (if you can call any of them a typical subject).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Teenage couple on Hudson Street NYC 1963.</em> This image shows a young couple that frankly look old before their time. There is no reference point for scale in the picture but both of them look rather petite. They are both smartly dressed but the shot is taken on what looks like a run down backstreet with litter and doors that open on to the street. Does this point to where they live or just where she met them? A subtle background but one that sets the tone for the image. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Boy with a straw hat, NYC 1967. </em> Clearly taken outside an offical building of some kind, this boy looks indocrinated to the point where he even looks like he was dressed by someone else. Slightly awkward looking and not sure what to do next. For me, this underpins a scary view of the American way of life. </span><br />
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<img alt="Boy with Straw Hat, NYC by Diane Arbus 1967" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3034" height="383" src="http://clinerosedesigns.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/6a00d83451be1b69e20105357094dd970c-450wi.jpg?w=383&h=383" title="Boy with Straw Hat, NYC by Diane Arbus 1967" width="383" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jose Navarro has just blogged about rephotography and I have recently been to Bradford National Media Museum to see (amongst others) Daniel Meadows' early works which included updated portraits of people taken in his earlier career. Interestingly I have just found this image from Feb 2011, so quite recent, of the twins from '<em>Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967'</em> which is one of Arbus' most famous works. They don't remember the day they entered photographic history but they still have the dresses (which are green). Their parents tried to stop republication of the image. I do ask myself sometimes when I look at photos such as Arbus' 'what what happened to these people?'. I'd like to know what became of the boy with the hand grenade. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The exhibition shows a wide range of Arbus' work even including a self portrait taken early on when she was pregnant. I have usually draw a picture in my head of what a photographer looks like when I look at their work so it's always interesting to see what they <em>really</em> look like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been to a large number of exhibitions this past year but this was one of the exhibitions I was most looking forward to and it did not disappoint. Arbus had an eye for capturing people on the edge of society and a unique way of capturing them.</span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-59768433838517864602011-10-19T05:38:00.000-07:002011-10-19T05:38:17.578-07:00Light: Project - Photographic lighting - concentrating light<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: concentrating light</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: The aim of this exercise is to create a shot that uses concentrated lighting and also to construct a snoot as a method of concentrating that light. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I wanted to create a simple still life for this shot. I had been framing some prints so I decided to use this as the inspiration. The pencil, cutter and scissors were all orange and this</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> strong orange presence was ideal for highlighting with a concentrated light source.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I created the snoot from a cardboard tube. In the first instance this was too defined. It created a definate circle of light over the subject with an obvious edge. I wanted a softer edge so I taped a piece of tissue over the end. This was too soft and diffuse, evening up the scene. I then went from 2 ply to 1 ply and this gave me the result I was looking for.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I lit the subject from fairly high up aiming down at a slight angle. I chose this to keep any obvious and unwanted shadows to a minimum. Using a reflector to remove shadows would have spread the light across the scene.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I like the way the light tails off towards the background, giving a hint of the finished framed print leaning against the wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Learning points:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When concentrating the light the subject needs to be central unless there is a particular reason to deliberately offset the light, otherwise it just looks careless. It took a number of attempts to get this shot, slightly repositioning the light each time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Snoots can create harsh edges so it is useful having something to diffuse the light slightly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Concentrating the light can emphasize and focus on any element of the shot and can produce very dramatic or moody images. This shot would look completely different without the concentrated lighting. The lighting has emphasized the composition. </span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-45564183775947774942011-10-18T09:35:00.000-07:002011-12-04T07:26:14.552-08:00Light: Project - Available light<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: outdoors at night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: The aim of this exercise is to explore the variety of lighting effects and colour in artificial light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For this exercise I had a number of places and buildings in mind. Setting up the camera for the different types of shot was important. Despite being all night shots, the desired results needed particular settings. Tripod mounted shots did not need a high ISO whereas handheld and long focal length invariably did unless it was very bright. I used centre or spot metering for specific subjects like buildings and evaluative for the more general shots where the whole scene was important. A camera does not recognise when you want atmosphere so it was necessary to compensate for some of the overly bright images in order to get the end result.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I tried a number of times to get an indoor shot of a large space with lots of people but this restricts you to shopping centres and the security was rather sharp. I'll try again sometime with a smaller camera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This first shot is of the top of a local office building called the pyramid. I wanted to isolate the building from it's surroundings so I waited for a clear night with no cloud cover or light pollution. I used tungsten WB to keep the colours cool. The green especially would turn more yellow with daylight balance.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following two identical shots of the Pantheon in Paris show the difference between black & white and colour. The black & white has much more even tones as there is no difference in the lighting whereas the colour shot shows the yellow from the street lamps lighting the lower part of the building, the white floodlight lighting the roof and dome and the blue/white light of the moon. I like the colour contrast of the artificial lighting against the moonlight which is lost in the B&W shot.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The main aim for this next shot was to ensure I exposed for the lights and not the building. Neon lights like these are easily overexposed. Because of the close crop there was enough light to hand hold at a reasonably low ISO.</span> <br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This shot is of Vidal Sasson after it closed (I didn't want any people in it). I took it because of the arrangement of the bottles in the window. It reminds me of a Damien Hurst installation that I saw many years ago that was the interior of a chemist shop with lots of white bottles lined up; an almost clinical quality. The lights are quite dim as some of the shop lighting had been turned off so I had to use a high ISO. I also used tungsten balanced WB to keep things as white as possible.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This shot was split toned (red/green) in Photoshop. There was already a significant difference between the foreground and the background so I used the split tone to accentuate this. The red table and chairs were lit by a bright red outdoor heater.</span><br />
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</tbody></table> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For this shot I wanted to keep a large area of darkness. The metering on the camera always wanted to brighten the whole scene up so I used exposure compensation. I originally took this in black and white but I like the colour as much; the darkness leading into the light and the stairs taking the viewer up to the restaurant sign.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One issue with night lighting is flare but in the right place it can be very effective. In this shot the flare from the streetlamps makes them look like a pair of drop earings. Again there is a lot of black in this picture but this was necessary to stop the clock face from blowing out. I could have increased the dynamic range or used photoshop to bring out the rest of the picture but I prefer the mood the darkness creates.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These next two shots are long exposures taken from a motorway bridge. I took a range of shots from different positions and at different shutter speeds. Over 10 seconds gave continuous streaks of light but it's dependant on the speed of the traffic. Motorways are obvious choices for this kind of shot but I think city centre night shots are far more interesting.</span> <br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following two shots show the difference between a one sec and a 10 sec exposure taken from a moving car. I tripod mounted the camera on the passenger seat and used a cable release to take the shots. The dashboard was never going to stay sharp with the long exposures but I wanted it in the shot as it gives more of an idea of the exposure and lets the viewer know that it is the camera that is moving. The ten second shot was taken on the motorway. I enjoyed creating these shots as there was an unexpected element. I stopped every now and then to check what I'd got and adjust the camera settings. I got a lot of interesting shots of which these are only two. Driving past a zebra crossing is interesting; have you noticed that the poles on belisha beacons light up these days?</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These final two shots were taken under the floodlit conditions of the greyhound stadium. Despite being bright, I still used a higher ISO because of the focal length of both shots. The first shot was taken across the track and the second was taken from the grandstand through glass. There are no refections because they dim the lights when a race is underway.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learning points:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Night photography is very wide ranging with quite different techniques needed for different shots; moving and static subjects, dim or brightly lit and different colour temperatures.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When it came to white balance I would quite often use what I prefered for mood rather than accuracy. The photographer creates the image and this is just another weapon in the photographers arsenal. Daylight balance was invariably too warm but there are a wealth of different types of artificial lighting these days and more and more of them have a more natural balance. The AWB on my new camera is far more accurate than on my old camera and I found that I could rely on it far more.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cameras are far better at dealing with high ISOs these days and I found I could shoot most scenes handheld unless deliberate streaks were the desired outcome. If noise becomes an issue then shooting in B&W and presenting it as grain is also an option.</span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-69214116823733529502011-10-17T14:30:00.000-07:002012-02-07T06:56:40.977-08:00Light: Project - Available light - tungsten and fluorescent lighting<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: tungsten and fluorescent lighting</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: The aim of this exercise is to compare the different qualities and limitations of tungsten and fluorescent lighting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Part 1 - Tungsten. The first part of this exercise involves taking a series of meter readings to see how bright the conditions are under tungsten lighting. I used the living room at dusk and using the evaluative metering at ISO200 I recorded 1/125sec near the light source and 2" in the darkest corner. Taking this further I used the spot meter on the light bulb to get 1/1250 and in the darkest part of the darkest corner I got 8". Using the spot meter showed the extremes but is not very useful, however I was curious! What it does highlight is that the light is much weaker than daylight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I then set up a still life shot that had tungsten light and fading daylight in the shot and took three exposures. The first uses Auto WB, the second tungsten balanced and the third is daylight balanced. The first two shots are similar whilst the third shot is much cooler. Te auto white balance has obviously chosen a tungsten value, which probably means that this was the more dominant light source. The daylight balanced shot shows how much cooler tungsten light is compared to daylight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Part 2 - For this part of the exercise I needed two different interiors lit by flourescent lamps. I chose a shopping centre and a theatre cafe as my two venues. The aim was to take the same scene with auto and flourescent WB settings and compare the outcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first two images were taken in the shopping centre on a small pocket camera (as photos are not permitted). The first shot is the auto WB and the second is the flourescent. The auto setting handled the situation better than the flourescent setting which surprises me. There is a pink cast on the second shot. I think the main issue is finding somewhere that is purely flourescent lighting. There was a mixture of artificial lighting here, and in all the other places I visited. The different shops, the cafe I was in and the shopping centre itself have different lighting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next three shots were taken in the theatre cafe on an SLR. The first shot is the auto WB and the next two are different flourescent sttings. A different camera and a different setting but similar results. I prefer the auto WB result. Again there was a mixture of lighting and also possibly some daylight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learning points;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Artificial light is generally much weaker than daylight.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Internal scenes often have a mixture of light that needs to be balanced. Quite often a WB setting on a camera will be too specific, for example flourescent or tungsten.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">In tricky scenes I usually use the manual kelvin scale to 'dial in' an accurate temperature.</span><br />
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<br />Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-14983708930421936962011-10-12T07:28:00.000-07:002011-10-12T07:32:04.845-07:00Light: Project - The time of day - variety with low sun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: variety with low sun.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: The aim of this exercise is to demonstrate the advantages and options when shooting in low sun.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results: After waiting for a clear afternoon/evening I chose a couple of local spots that would provide me with the views that I wanted; those being front, side, back and rim lighting situations.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Frontal lighting - The following shot was taken into the sun (not directly). I chose the fountain so that the sun would highlight the water droplets. The rest of the fountain is a silhouette. The shutter speed was always going to be fast because of the strong sunlight which meant that the water droplets would be frozen. I liked the way that the sun has picked up all the individual droplets, including the spray at the bottom and also the way the strong sunlight has penetrated the leaves in the foreground making them light up. I was also attracted by the way that the shape of the fountain has guided the growth of the plants in the main bowl, falling like a curtain with the water following suit.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back lighting - This shot was taken with the sun behind, casting long shadows from the trees and the goal posts. I took the shot slightly to one side to avoid my own shadow. The length of the goal post shadow is about 5 times the size of the posts. The large shadow is a tree some 50m away. I chose to shoot at an angle so that all lines would converge in the corner. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rim lighting - A heavy rain shower and strong sun has caused the water to evaporate creating mist which shows the direction of the light hitting the tree from the back right side creating a lit edge down the side of the tree trunk. It can be necessary to under expose for rim lighting to ensure that the effect is captured and not washed out. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learning points:</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rim lighting was the most difficult to capture. I found other examples such as railings, but the one thing in common was that they were all round. Also it wasn't just the subject but the background as well. The rim lighting did not show up against a bright background.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I like all these shots for a similar reason; they all create quite a dramatic or striking image no matter which angle the light is from. They all have high contrast and strong shadows of one form or another.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Late or low sun provides far more opportunities for a dramatic image. It also has a warmth that is not available any other time of day. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-87205801140833844762011-10-03T03:11:00.000-07:002011-10-03T03:11:38.212-07:00Light: Project - The time of day<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: Light through the day</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: The aim of this exercise is to compare the effects of light on the same scene throughout the day. The conditions needed to be consistantly sunny.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It took me a long time to find the place I wanted. I had a number of places in mind that I visited but were not suitable. I wanted a view that would have uninterupted light across the whole scene. I also wanted to be facing north so that the sun would go from right to left and at no point would I have the sun aiming directly at the camera. The most open place I found was Manchester airport but it was just too far to travel to get pictures on the hour or on different days (as the weather was not consistant). I'll bear it in mind for other exercises. Another venue was a local park with a high viewpoint but because the trees are in leaf there is no clear view at this time of year. The final place is also a park with a fairly mixed view including trees and buildings and has a wide and clear view north. Another thing that attracted me was the self storage sign that is upside down. I'm presuming it was put up facing the other way to advertise to the motorway traffic just behind and has fallen backwards? By the time I finished the exercise it was up the right way. I took shots more frequently at the start and end of the day as this was when the scene changed most rapidly. 15 minutes could make a hugh difference at either end of the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Points to note:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">There are a lot of changes going on in this series of images. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Running through the pictures quickly like a flicker book made me more aware of the subtle changes that were going on! In particular the shadows falling on the trees that I had missed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The early morning light is quite hazy and weak and although sunny, the shadows are not at all distinct. The scene really comes alive from about 7:45 when the sun becomes stronger and reaches the football pitch. Before this the scene is much darker and cooler. The early sun warms up the image which then cools down mid morning until late afternoon when it warms up again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The red brick warehouse has a section that juts out creating a shadow that starts long on one side, slowly shrinks and the lengthens the other side throughout the day. Also the red brick warms up later in the day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The industrial units in the front left have corrugated roofs that become more promenent as the day goes on. The shadows become clearer from about 4:00 onwards.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The front of B&Q is bright white early on but starts to look grey from about 12:00 onwards.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The goods warehouse on the horizon looks most dramatic early on. The shadows even out and the blue doors become a visible part of the image at 1:00.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Long shadows fall over the football pitch later on making the picture considerably darker in the foreground.</span><br />
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<div align="left"></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learning points:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">There are a considerable number of changes that go on in any particular scene during the course of the day. Although you assume you know this, actually doing this exercise makes you appreciate the extent of the changes. When you see a spectacular landscape image you can understand the time and effort invested by the photographer and hours spent at the scene just to identify the right moment. This can make the difference between a good shot and a great shot.</span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-69524326393013442612011-09-24T03:44:00.000-07:002011-09-24T03:49:01.421-07:00Light: Project - Photographic lighting - shiny surfaces<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: shiny surfaces</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: The aim of this exercise is to learn how to deal with the unique problems created when photographing highly reflective surfaces such as stainless steel or chrome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For this exercise I hunted round the house for a suitable stainless steel object. I found it in a Georg Jensen tea light holder. Georg Jensen is a Danish designer whose designs are usually very clean lined stainless steel. The tealight holder had a smooth round surface that reflected the camera no matter where you put it; perfect. I then turned my attention to the home made funnel 'light tent'. I did not have any tracing paper but I do have a sheet of white translucent polyproplene which fitted the bill. I used a white card background deliberately as refering to 'Light Science and Magic' a dark base would have taken the light away from the front of the tealight holder. As it turned out I couldn't get the funnel to bend enough to see the front of the tealight anyway; not without letting light and other reflections in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The following two shots are without the light tent. The first shot was without flash and, as you can see the reflection in the surface shows not only me but the whole room. There are also a series of shadows and reflections caused by the window light. For the second shot I used direct flash mounted on the camera with a small softbox on it. This gives a bright spot for the flash and darkens the rest of the image, not really giving a true rendition of the tealight. There are some fine surface marks near the bright spots and a dark shadow at the front. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following four shots are taken with the light tent and the flash in different positions. The immediate and quite dramatic improvements are obvious. Firstly there is nothing reflected in the surface, giving the tealight smooth clean visible lines. The shape is more easily recognised. Secondly the diffuse, angled lighting shows the stainless steel finish without darkening it due to under exposure created by a direct flash reflection. That said, not all the shots are good. The first shot has created two large bright spots around the rim of the tealight. Moving to the right has removed these spots and produced a better result. Moving to the left has produced another bright spot on the rim because of the angle of the tealight. Shooting from the top has produced a more evenly lit shot but it also produces a slight, but more obvious shadow. This is not necessarily a bad thing as I think it shows off the depth of the tealight more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learning points:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">When photographing shiny objects it is important to remove as much of the surrounding reflection as possible as reflections detract from the shape of the object by breaking up lines.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Diffuse lighting produces a much more accurate and even exposure, showing the surface in its true light. This also covers imperfections in the surface.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> In general the lighting needs to be taylored to the object so that there are no direct reflections from the light source causing hot spots.</span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-148394791593139912011-09-21T10:37:00.000-07:002011-09-21T10:37:03.669-07:00Light: Project - photographic lighting - lighting angle<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: The lighting angle</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: The aim of this exercise is to light an object from a variety of different angles and to understand the effects this has on the image produced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For this exercise I wanted something that had a variety of angles that would show the effects of the lighting. I chose a cactus as it was round but with grooves in it and the spikes should show up as highlights depending on the angle. I put the cactus on a small table in the middle of the room and put a white background behind it. This first set of 5 images were taken with the light source at the same height as the camera and the subject. It is only the light source that has been adjusted in the images, starting at 0 degrees, then 45, 90, 135 and finally 180.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first shot is with the flash from the front (very slightly left) and has created an even but flat result. There is very little shadow or contrast to give depth to the cactus. This is fine to identify this as a cactus but not to highlight its qualities or features. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMVZIlGF07AZoEQ1PEHNKVTjY5CyBG6UYOIt2qyexsmi4QXPf3sNPYWcdtSw428tGQ-8TF_0LmS6K1LKvvKevSIcmLatP7my2f0uVgQIyHrK2pwn-FliXNno8YIZQK32Op2sV4514pLZDV/s1600/_DSC8565.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMVZIlGF07AZoEQ1PEHNKVTjY5CyBG6UYOIt2qyexsmi4QXPf3sNPYWcdtSw428tGQ-8TF_0LmS6K1LKvvKevSIcmLatP7my2f0uVgQIyHrK2pwn-FliXNno8YIZQK32Op2sV4514pLZDV/s320/_DSC8565.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Placing the flash at 45 degrees creates more shadow and a sense of depth in the grooves in the cactus, The pot also starts to take on a rounded shape with greater depth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At 90 degrees things change more dramatically. The pot is half in shadow, the edges of the grooves become more highlighted and the spines on the cactus seem to multiply considerably. the cactus and pot look more rounded but there is a loss of detail on the right hand side and the detail in the grooves is now in shadow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At 135 degrees the light acts more like a rim light, lighting one edge of the subject and defining its profile. Again the spines are highlighted as are the edges of some of the grooves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The silhouette is completely different. There is not detail or depth, just the outline shape barely definable as a cactus. I am surprised that the spines do not show up more than they have. Being fine the direct light will refract round them and they will be masked by the blown out white background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For this second set of images the light was raised and angled down at 45 degrees and then moved round the plant in the same way as the first set of images. The first image is from the front but unlike the first set of images the light source is already at 45 degrees on one plane, creating a greater sense of depth due to the shadow around the base of the cactus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This second image is at 45 degrees and makes the cactus look consideably more round. There is a greater sense of depth and a far more 3D feel to this image. There is also a shadow on the table because of the lighting angle which gives more depth to the table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At 90 degrees the spines again become more visible and the grooves in the cactus become more shadowed highlighting their depth. The pot appears to be more than half in shadow as the down lighting accentuates the rim of the pot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At 135 degrees more of the cactus is lit compared to the first set of images. The cactus keeps its rounded feel as the light shines over the top and acts as more than just a rim light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At 180 degrees the result is very different from the first silhouette. Although this is almost a silhouette, the bright white background has gone and the spines are much clearer. There is some detail at the very top still suggesting a ball shape.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learning points:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The lighting angle can completely change the view of any subject and can be used to show shape, form and texture.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The most rounded image is with the lighting at 45 degrees from the side and 45 degrees from the top. This captures the depth and roundness on more than one plane.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The spines seem obvious in the early shots but clearly only become really prominent from 90 degrees onwards.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My favorite is the last image as it makes the cactus look more like a charachter from a horror movie!</span></div>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-8232053846130049302011-09-21T09:27:00.000-07:002011-09-21T09:27:24.256-07:00Light:Project - Photographic lighting - contrast and shadow fill<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: contrast and shadow fill</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: the aim of this exercise is to use different types of reflector to create shadow fill and to note the difference created by different distances and surfaces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I first tried this exercise with the cactus that I used in previous exercises but the results were not so obvious. For a bigger subject I think I needed a bigger reflector. the snails are useful to compare the effects on colour. The results were quite subtle in some instances but none the less made a difference. As I was quite close I used F16 throughout in order to get sufficient depth of field. Some of the differences will also come from the fact that I was hand holding the reflector so the position is not identical on each image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first shot was taken with no diffuser. The light is harsh and the table top has a light sheen on it. The second shot was with a 60cm softbox. This has reduced the exposure, strenghtening the colours but there is a lot of shadow. The third shot uses a white card reflector on the opposite side to the flash and a similar distance away (1m approx). This had very little effect at all. You could say that it very slightly lightened the shadows but it is marginal. The light reaching the reflector is 4 times less than the light reaching the subject as the reflector is twice as far away. This is before you take into account the distance that the light is reflected back (a further 1m). It is therefore not surprising that the light reflected back has little impact. The forth shot brings the reflector twice as close and there is a noticable difference. The green and red shells are more evenly lit, the green snail body is more visible and the table top detail is clearer and less shadowed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Shots 5,6 and 7 use foil as the reflective surface. Firstly using the dull side, then the shiny side and finally a crumpled shiny side. The foil is more reflective than the card and lightens the shadows still further. It is not until the foil is used that the face of the red becomes lit at all. The shiny side of the foil is by far the most effective as a reflector. There is clearly detailed relief on the side of the green snail. Crumpling it makes it slightly more diffuse and less directional, brighter than the dull side but softer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learning points:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Up until now I have always used a piece of white card when I needed to reflect light apart from one occasion where I used a silver tray to create a spotlight. Changing the type of reflector can have a subtle but significant effect. The results with the foil shiny side out and crumpled are the most impressive as it managed to reflect more light but keep it diffuse.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">A reflector needs to be qiute close to be effective because of the light fall-off. </span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-8545844649995713412011-09-21T07:25:00.000-07:002011-09-21T07:28:47.623-07:00Light: Project - Photographic lighting - softening the light<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: softening the light</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: The aim of this exercise is to understand the effects of softening the light source with a diffuser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I chose a simple still life for this exercise and lit it from overhead. The first shot was direct flash from a wireless flashgun. The second shot was with the same flashgun with a 60cm softbox over it. as you can see from the images, the shadows are much sharper, darker and well defined. The highlight on the snail shells is smaller but better defined and the sides of the shells are not as well lit. Also the grain on the table top is better defined and colours in general appear more saturated. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Whether diffusion is an improvement depends on what you want from the image. If this was a product photography shot then the diffused shot would be my choice as the shadows are less distracting and there is a more even light. If I wanted to highlight detail then the straight flash shows up more relief in the surfaces due to the sharp shadow lines. If this were a portrait then diffused light would be far more flattering.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Learning points:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Direct flash shows more detail and relief. Diffused light gives softer shadows and larger highlights. Diffused light is usually a larger light source and envelopes the subject more.</span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-38309651732178147642011-09-20T10:10:00.000-07:002011-09-20T10:10:09.836-07:00Light: Project - The time of day<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Exercise: cloudy weather and rain</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Part 1 - cloud vs sun: The following pairs of images were taken on days when the sun was in and out of the cloud. The aim of the exercise is to compare the changing levels of colour and exposure and the effects they have on the overall image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This first pair of images were taken inside Manchester Catherdral. I wanted to capture how the light shone through the large leaded windows. The first shot was taken with the sun out at F5 and 1/400sec. The second shot was with the sun behind the cloud and was F5 but 1/125sec, so approximately 1 1/2 stops slower than the first. The cloudy shot is also bluer than the sunny shot. In terms of recognising what the shot actually is, the cloudy shot is clearer as the confusing shadows cast by the leaded glass are not apparent. That said, I took the shot because I liked the myriad of patterns created by the shadows and it is the sunlit shot that I prefer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This second pair of images are of a security guard in a stockport shopping centre. The shaded image was taken at F7.1 and 1/320sec whilst the sunny image was taken at F7.1 and 1/400sec but is slightly overexposed. One stop difference would probably work better. Detail in the stonework has been lost and the gradually changing tones that give depth are also considerably less obvious in the sunny image. However, the guard is better lit and defined in the sunny image. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I like the fact that (as a security guard) the light shades have gone from over his head. The shady shot is also bluer than the sunny shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This third pair of images are also of a Stockport shopping centre. I chose this view because of the potential light and shade and also because of the large amounts of glass. The sunny shot was taken at F5.6 and 1/250sec whilst the cloudy shot was taken at F5.6 and 1/400sec. This would appear to be the wrong way round! However, with the sun out there is a large area of shade created which has obviously registered with the evaluative metering. The building on the right is still exposed correctly but has more definition. The sunny shot is much warmer. The cloudy picture is still very bright as the cloud was not too thick. It is more evenly lit and there is a lot more cloud reflected off of the glass roofing which probably explains the unexpected light readings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Part 2.1 - The aim of this exercise is to select two of my previous images that would not benefit from being taken in bright sunlight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In this first image I wanted to capture the bleak solitute of a cold early winter morning. The only people out were dog walkers. There was a layer of mist across the bare football pitch and the sky was gloomy. If this had been a clear bright day the image would turn into a crisp winter morning and the mist probably wouldn't have been there in the first place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This second image is of a small backstreet in Manchester. the buildings are close together so not much room for light. Any strong sunlight would have been very directional and would have lightened some areas and not others creating a high contrast and loosing some of the detail that I wanted to capture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Part 2.2 - The aim here was to capture 3 images that would look better taken under cloudy conditions with a more flat even light. It was a bright but cloudy day when I took these images.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first picture of the wet handrail shows gradual tones giving depth and highlighting the shape of the rail. In bright sun there would have been a very bright reflection resulting in losing a lot of the rail (or the highlights being blown out).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The second image is from a shop window display. Again the detail and shading that is present would have been difficult to reproduce in bright sun as would the range of yellow hues in the pencils. Taking the picture through glass would also be more problematic in bright sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The third image of the statue has a lot of detail and relief. Also the picture is taken upwards towards the bright sky. The detail in the statue is visible with not too many harsh shadows making the figure hard to define. The raised names on the base are actually readable on a larger image but this would be more difficult if sharp long shadows were cast as a result of strong sunlight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Part 3 - rain: As much as I hate the rain, it can be great for photographs. Living in Manchester I might as well make use of this abundant resource! This first shot was taken at an open air lido where the rain doesn't really matter, once you're wet, you're wet! It was the bubbles forming as the raindrops hit the surface that attracted me to the shot. This was only evedent when the rain was not too hard. Heavy rain just broke up the surface. I took the shot from distance (under cover) and used a shallow depth of field to focus on the near centre of the pool. This also gave me an ideal shutter speed to capture the bubbles. This shot looks much better larger but the blogging software only gives a few size options. The next size up is too big for the page!</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This second shot is of raindrops on the patio doors at home looking down the garden. I kept perpendicular to the window, fairly low down so that I could maintain focus across the window and keep the background dark. I took a shot higher up with a brighter background but prefer this one. I used F8 to keep the depth of field. I like the fact that there is an inverted view of the garden in every drop, with the green lawn at the top and the grey sky at the bottom. </span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Learning points:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I tend to take most of my pictures in brighter weather. This became self evident when I had to look back for two shots that would not benefit from being taken in strong sunlight. They were quite hard to find! My camera is not weather sealed and I think I'm quite concious of this. I also have a preference for high contrast images with lots of blacks and you can't get this on a grey day. That said, some shots that I would have naturally taken in sun, such as the hand rail, actually work considerably better in shade. There is a subtlety in contrast that allows wide ranges of detail and colour to be captured without exceeding the dynamic range of the camera. The 'all or nothing' high contrast image doesn't lend itself to gradual changes in tone that, for example, make the handrail look round or give it depth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm still not quite sure I have hit upon why the cloudy shopping centre picture had a faster shutter speed. Surely the yellow wall of the shopping centre should look overexposed but it doesn't?</span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-10751261173800007122011-09-08T11:22:00.000-07:002011-10-12T11:24:53.663-07:00Light: Project - The colour of light<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: judging colour temperature 2</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: The aim of this exercise is to take three sets of three pictures, midday shade, midday sun and evening sun with shade, sun and auto WB settings and to interpret the results.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results: For the first part of this exercise I used a day when the sun was in and out of the clouds giving me the opportunity to get the shots in reasonably quick succession. Grabbing the short bursts of sunshine available meant asking Katya to run out into the garden at short notice and me taking the pictures as quickly as possible, so the portraits aren't particularly good!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">These first 3 pictures were taken when the sun was behind the clouds. The first image uses AWB and is rather cool. There appears to be no adjustment for the shade. It was still a bright day so this may be an issue. The 2nd picture has the WB set to shade. This has corrected the previous cool and is much more representative of the actual light. The 3rd picture uses the sunny WB setting and has consequently produced a cool image much like the AWB shot. If anything the AWB shot is the coolest of the 3.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These next three pictures where taken when the sun was out. The 1st was with AWB and again is the coolest of the 3. The 2nd shot is with the WB set to shade and has warmed up the image. Although I find this the better of the 3 images, it is not representative of the conditions. The 3rd shot is with the WB set to sun. This is the most accurate, being slightly warmer than the AWB but cooler than the shady WB.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These last three pictures were taken using the low evening sun. They were taken in quick succession as the light was changing rapidly. The first shot was with AWB and, in this case is the most accurate. The 2nd shot is with the WB set to shade and is far too warm and yellow as you would expect. The 3rd shot is with the WB set to sun and is the coolest of the 3 images, but only slightly.</span> <br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial;">Learning points:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The auto white balance from my camera is slightly on the cool side for portraits. I prefer a warmer result. This would not necessarily be the case for other types of shot but warmer skintones are generally more flattering. I've never used the scene modes on my camera but it makes me wonder what result I would get if I set it to portrait.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Interestingly the AWB in all cases above has produced a similar result to the sunny WB.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">If I'm not getting the WB I want I usually set it manually on the Kelvin scale.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">It's worth taking note exactly how your particular camera judges scenes so you know what expect in future.</span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-8789841427562801752011-09-07T04:44:00.000-07:002011-09-22T02:20:08.028-07:00Light: Project - The colour of light<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: judging colour temperature 1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: the aim of this exercise is to understand the effects of colour temperature and white balance at different times of the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I chose to shoot three pictures of my partner whilst on holiday. One in full sun at midday, one in shade at midday and one as the sun was dropping in the late afternoon. The camera's white balance was set to sunny. As this is a direct comparison I haven't done any post processing. At the time my thoughts were that the midday sun was neutral but harsh, the shade was neutral but softer and more even and the late afternoon sun was warmer but not overly warm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This first image is the sun at midday and is fairly accurate if a little cool. You can see by the shadows that the sun was almost directly overhead producing a very harsh, unflatering light. The second image is midday shade and the image is definately cooler or bluer than it should be. The sunny WB has overcompensated in the shade. The late afternoon image is not overly warm. I think taking the shot later still would change this. The colours look warm but the skin tone does not. The defocussed lavendar in the background is certainly warmer than earlier in the day (the main reason we were there).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Midday shade</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">late afternoon sun</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table> <span style="font-family: Arial;">Learning points:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you chose to control the white balance it is necessary to change it to suit the scene and not, for example, just leave it on sunny on a sunny day. It is important to know what you camera will do at certain WB settings. I don't think I was aware that the sunny WB would cool down the shadey image quite so much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you use AWB it is important to get to know what your camera will do. My experience with my camera is that if left to it's own devices in shadier situations the images can be on the cool side. Particularly in woodland or tree shade. In tricky situations I will use the kelvin scale and the live view to adjust the WB.</span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-74835339808056986072011-09-06T06:24:00.000-07:002011-09-06T06:24:49.587-07:00Light: Project - The intensity of light<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: Higher and lower sensitivity</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: The aim of this exercise is to investigate the difference in using a range of ISOs and the trade off between being able to take a shot and the noise levels in the image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I started by using ISO 100 in as lower light as possible to the point where I was relying on the image stabilisation for some of the shots and on close inspection there was still some movement. The images only really became pin sharp at ISO 800. I took the same shot using ISO 100 to ISO 3200. <span style="font-family: Arial;">In reducing the images for the blog any close-up comparison is impossible as there is no longer enough detail to compare. Therefore I have sampled some of the areas in the images.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">For the first example I chose an image with a range of colours and have enlarged ISO400 and ISO3200. ISO400 shows no noise in any areas. 800 was slightly sharper but there were some speckles creaping in under close inspection. 1600 was noisier still and 3200 was the worst. It was most noticable in t</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">he soft, out of focus areas. The grey or midtone areas also show more noise. Blacks were handled quite well which is surprising. Any large plain area had a tendency to highlight noise. That said, even the 3200 when viewed normally was far better than I expected and probably usable to a reasonable size. I would have thought this would be limited to small web images but this exercise has changed my mind. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Original</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">ISO 3200</span></td></tr>
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the second example I have enlarged ISO100 and ISO800. As this is a close up shot I needed a small aperture to get the required depth of field. The result is that ISO100 is not fast enough to keep the image sharp. ISO800 is a far better result and a more usable image with very little if any noticable noise introduced.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ISO 800 (top) and ISO 100 (bottom)</span></td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I also tried the multi frame noise reduction option on my camera which works at all ISOs and takes a series of images to reduce noise. This worked very well and is a useful tool for low light static images.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Learning points:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I don't need to be too worried about using higher ISOs and I can be much more flexible with the ISO range that I use rather than generally leaving it on 200 and using maximum apertures.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In scenes with large plain areas it is worth using as low ISO as you can as this is where it becomes most obvious.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A slight amount of noise will always be preferential to a blurred image.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This does not make me want to use auto ISO as I still want to know what ISO is being used.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-25419829133408011122011-09-06T06:22:00.000-07:002011-09-06T06:22:31.961-07:00Light: Project - The intensity of light<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exercise: Measuring Exposure</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aim: This exercise is in two parts. Part one is a series of shots that are deliberately lighter or darker than average with a description why. Part two is series of 5 shots but for each shot there are 5 exposures based around the average to see whether lighter or darker exposures are more accurate or provide a better image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Approach and results:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Part 1: The first thing to note here is that the shots that are deliberately dark have small but bright points of interest that do not look good shrunk for the blog. The following three images are all darker than usual because I wanted the particular bright areas to be the interest in the picture. In the first picture it was the shaft of light round the end of the arch and the sunlit leaves that caught my eye. I took a series of pictures to get to this result. The first picture gave an even exposure bringing all the detail out in the foreground and walls but blowing out the sunlit areas. At this point I set the camera to manual, set the aperture I wanted for the depth of field and then altered the shutter speed until I got the result I wanted.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">For the shot of the church window I took a spot reading from the window as the average exposure lost all detail in the stained glass (which was the reason for the picture). I then set the exposure in the same way as I did for the first picture. I approached the shot of the stairs in the same way.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">F7.1 1/125sec ISO200</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">F7.1 1/100sec ISO200</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">F5.6 1/200sec ISO200</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next two images are lighter than average. This first image had dark shadows and a lack of detail in the window, lemon and chillies. I took a different approach to getting the exposure I wanted by using the cameras exposure compensation and pushing the exposure by 0.7 stops. I did this in aperture priority so the camera did not alter the depth of field. This brought back the detail I wanted whilst only lightening the brickwork by a small amount. I have no idea why a lemon and some chillies were nailed to a wall in a Manchester back street!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the second shot of the vine I took a spot reading off the grapes as the first exposure made them too dark with very little detail. The background is now bright but surprisingly acceptable as it is not the focus of the picture. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">F8 1/30sec ISO200</span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part 2: For this part of the exercise I took 5 seperate pictures but bracketed the exposures one stop either side in half stop increments. The aim is to see what acceptable tolerances there are around the average exposure. Bracketing is something that I used to do a lot with film as you were never sure of the result. Using digital this is not something I do as much anymore. I used the evaluative metering for all the images. The results depend on two things; how the camera metered the scene and what I wanted in the image in the first place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Using the first shot of the stained glass window, half a stop over brings out more green in the image, the white remains bright, the writing in the middle is clear and the blacks are still black. One stop over makes the writing blown out by the white background. Under exposing makes the white start to look grey and more of the green turns almost black.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The second shot of the bins is tolerable half a stop either side but not any further. One stop over washes out the colour in the bins and one stop under loses the red bins in the background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The third shot of the backstreet is interesting as I think all the results are ok depending on what you are looking for. The overexposed shots bring out the detail in the dark backstreet without overexposing any particular area giving it an almost filmset appearance. The underexposed shots create a darker,more realistic but more mysterious image reminiscant of the large areas of black in a Bill Brandt type image and would probably look good in black and white. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The most obvious use for bracketing is in the 4th image where the sky and ground are 50/50 making the average less predictable. In this case the under exposed shots are preferable as the detail in the tree and sky is not lost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The fifth image suffers as a result of the sun going in and out so the average shot is brighter than the others. As you under expose the detail in the sky comes out more but this is not the main focus of the picture and therefore does not work.</span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There are a number of ways to get the exposure you want including using the right metering method, bracketing, using the cameras exposure compensation or using manual mode.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I was surprised to see how many of the over/under exposed images were actually ok in my eye.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If the subject is correctly exposed there is more tollerance for areas of the picture that are too dark or too light.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Images with less extremes of light and dark are more tollerant to over or underexposer.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Technology has moved on. I can expand the dynamic range in camera which also has built in HDR but these functions should be used with caution. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Extremes of light and dark can be an important part of the image the photographer wants to create and evening things out can be detrimental as it changes the focus of the picture and can reduce the dramatic impact.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962618842008653466.post-67730065476218061682011-07-26T05:17:00.000-07:002011-07-26T05:38:44.597-07:00Les rencontres D'Arles photographie 2011<span lang=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've just got back from the South of France where I spent a day at 'Les rencontres D'Arles photographie 2011' (Arles photography festival). There were 47 exhibitions across the town so we were scratching the surface a bit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the key themes was the future of photography. 'From here on' was an exhibition of work from 36 photographers under the following manifesto: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The curators of the exhibition and also authors of the manifesto are; Clement Cheroux, Joan Fontcuberta, Erik kessels, Martin Parr and Joachim Schmid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The majority of the exhibits were constructed from 'found' photos from the internet (Google images/maps, Flickr etc.). There were collections of globes, suns, TVs, swimming pools, baseball grounds and so on which I have to say I found rather repetitive as a theme! Is yet another collection of poor quality photos of 'stuff' based around a theme taken off the internet really the future of photography? The need for a considerable number of images also makes them less descerning. Penelope Umbrico's 8,799,661 suns from Flickr is an example. This is a wall of 6x4s of images of the sun from different Flickr sites. I would doubt that these were hand picked in any descerning way (because they weren't that good). They are also someone else's pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My overall impression was that it was more a fascination with the internet than photography. You may say I'm missing the point but I can appreciate what has been done and I am a fan of patterns and collections. Jenny Odell's collections of images from Google satellite images are interesting and visually striking but it's just that it is getting repeditive already - where next? This appears to be an attempt to make photographers relevant in the world of social networking by collecting images that show trends in human nature 'turning old into new and elevating the banal'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A different take on this was Corrine Vionnet's 'Photo Opportunities' which is a collection of images of famous landmarks culled from the internet and layered over each other giving a painterly result and demonstrating that we all take similar 'photographic trophies' on holiday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I enjoyed most......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New York Times Magazine - The venue for this was the church in the main square which lends itself very well to the exhibition. It has a series of alcoves that were used to display different collections of images. Copies of the relevant issues were also on display along with storyboards giving you an idea of how a particular piece was created and developed from an idea to the final copy. My favorite's were Gregory Crewsden's 'Dream House' and portraits by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. 'Dream House' is a series of images of celebrities, their faces fairly expressionless like manikins, in a suburban environment. The surreal situations and lighting are like images from a dream. The Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin portraits included Clint Eastwood in a vale of smoke making him look like a cloud that had come to life. This description doesn't do it justice!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maya Goded 'Welcome to Lipstick'. This depicts the life of prostitutes in a neighbourhood called Lipstick on the Mexican border. The slide show captures the misery, fear and hopelessness of surviving in this lawless environment. The images show a dark dirty and sinister place that raised the hairs on the back of my neck. The pictures on the website do not do this justice but here's the link -</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://mayagoded.com/mg/"><u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://mayagoded.com/mg/</span></span></span></span></span></u></a></span><br />
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<span lang=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fernando Montiel Klint 'Acts of Faith' and 'Nirvana'. These colourful saturated images were all based around a central character often the main subject of the lighting. The images are strong, complicated unatural images that grabbed my imagination. Because of their complexity there is a delay in the images that made me look at them for a long time, seeing more and more the longer I looked. The photos were large (1.2x1.4m in general) allowing you to see the detail that you can't really see on the website. This made them all the more dramatic to me. His use of colour and light created images that I found myself getting lost in. <a href="http://www.fernandomontielklint.com/"><u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.fernandomontielklint.com/</span></span></span></span></u></a></span><br />
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<span lang=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yann Gross 'Horizonville'. I don't know whether it was the images or just the fact that this place even exists that facinated me most! It has to be seen to be believed! America's mid west moved to Switzerland (scary). One side of me says I want to go there and the other side says definately not. <a href="http://www.yanngross.com/horizonville.htm"><u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.yanngross.com/horizonville.htm</span></span></span></span></u></a></span><br />
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<span lang=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse 'Ponte City'. This documents the changes in Johannesburg through the demise and attempted revitalization of the iconic 54 storey Ponte Tower. Built in an area that was originally white middle class couples and is now associated with crime, urban decay and an influx of foreign nationals from neighbouring African countries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dulce Pinzon 'The real story of superheroes'. This slide show depicts the struggle of Mexican immigrant workers in New York. The city relies on these people working long hours for low pay, their families back in Mexico rely on the money they send home and in turn the Mexican economy is becoming reliant on the money coming in. This worked well as a slide show because first you are shown the image, then the persons name, then their job and finally the amount they send home every week/month. I got the impression that the better the job the less money got sent. Maybe the family was smaller or maybe these people were settling into a New York lifestyle? <a href="http://www.dulcepinzon.com/en_projects_superhero.htm">http://www.dulcepinzon.com/en_projects_superhero.htm</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In terms of pesentation there was just about everything. The venue in the old railway yard was facinating in itself to the point where I could have happily wandered round it if it had been empty. The photos below give a taste of this:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a brief taste of the event. Next time I'll spend more time there. I saw so much and missed so much more, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. If we get a Manchester OCA group together I'll bring the (575 page) book along.</span>Jeff's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205580486517629541noreply@blogger.com1