Self Directed, Photographing and Digital.

Last week I had the opportunity to capture a mixture of talented people. It was my first time ever doing something like this. I was full of nerves, and doubts that I wouldn't do so well. I don't really like the photos as the lighting was so hard to deal with, but I have learnt to accept that you can't get everything perfect at first. I will continue to practice. It was a great experience, and a lot of fun too. The good part is that I was the only photographer, so there was not much pressure. No other photos to compare too.

Here are a few photos I took

f/22, 1/6, IS03200 

f/5.6, 1/20, ISO800

f/5.6. 1/20, ISO800

f/6.3, 1/100, ISO3200

Self directed tasks.

Here is a photo I took while I was having lunch in town, after an exhausting day in hospital. What sucks is that, it was on JPG. So guttered.

Week 6 Flash

Photo with direct flash 

No flash for bounce flash 

Straight up with bounce card 

                                 Over exposed background        

With no Gary fong 

With Gary Fong 

  

Bulb Practice w3

After finally figuring out how to do the bulb function, I finally got onto it. I still need more practice, which i'm looking forward to do so. I couldn't get the right 'amount' of light, so I was getting a little frustrated. That's okay, practice makes perfect.

week 6 Photomerge

 Above are the three photos I used for my panorama. There is a bit of colour difference, but I wasn't too fussed over it. It still looked really good. I did two different layouts.

Above is one of the panoramas I did.

Now that's the other one I did.

Another panorama I did but Manually.



Photomerging is a very fun tool to play around with. You can do so much, with just two photos. This tool is also useful for landscapes, if you don't have a wide lens. (Well at least I think so)

Week 5 David LaChapelle

For this particular research, it took me longer to choose who I wanted to research about. There are many amazing photographers that were given to us to choose from. I also found this the hardest one. I'm not too sure why I found this one so hard. The past three days, I've had this pos on 'save' to decide who I want to research about. 
So I think by going through all of David LaChapelles series, I find him very interesting. 

David isn't only a photographer he's also a filmmaker. He's famous for his work in fashion, advertising, and fine arts. Lachapelle attended the North Carolina school of the arts and the Visual Arts in New York, landing a photography job at Andy Warhol's interview magazine while still in high school. He has gone onto photographing celebrities such as Nicki Minaj, Angelina Jolies and many more.

Angelina Jolie photographed by David LaChapelle 

The colour he has used above is I believe are Complimentary colours. The bright red, goes with her beautiful green eyes, as well as the leaf of the strawberry.

Katy Perry photographed by David LaChapelle 

'This is my house' Photographed by David LaChapelle 

The flowers seem to be warm coloured which I really like, but the dress she's wearing is quiet bright and not so warm. 

Week 5 Focal length, and colour.

So today we were experiencing the differences with focal lengths. As you could see below, you can tell I have been using different focal length. I was also moving around to try get the 'same' picture. 

  17mm

50mm

85mm

Now here are the photos I took with different focal lengths, but without moving.

17mm

50mm

85mm

Then we took some photos of complimentary colours.

Love this photo. I even facebooked this under the 'The lost scarf ~' 

Week 4 Edward Weston

Edward weston is one of the most recognised of all american photographers. He is probably the most responsible for helping people to see photography as an art form. He did not always use his camera to take pictures that way. At first he took pictured influenced by the popular photographs of his time. Photographers then made pictures that did not appear sharp and clear. Instead, they appeared soft. They were similar to painted pictures that tried to be beautiful, not realistic. Since someones passing, his 6 children have taken taken over his website. 

Pepper #30
I think he's using a long shutter speed on these photos to bring in some details to the photo.

toadstool

Above is a negative image which was produced in the dark room.

He used an 8 1/2 in. lens for all his extreme close-up work on his 8x10. He found that he actually needed more DOF than the smallest f stop his 8 inch lens shutter would provide..so he cut from a black piece of tin a smaller hole,similar to a Waterhouse Stop,to give him even more Depth of field,which he in turn placed in the shutter. If there's a will there's a way!

Self guide.

While I was on Pinterest I came along this amazing photography cheat sheet.
I think it really does help you.

Week 4 Texture, Positive/Negative space, Manual Mode.

Above is a photo to show texture. I really like this photo as you can just feel the photo, you can feel those spikes to be sharp.

With the photo above, I'm not too confident with it. It's suppose to be a low angle shot using the sky as a negative space, but I'm not too sure if I have the hang of it. So more practice for me. yay! 

This is my portrait of two people. I really like the texture behind them, and the way they're facing each other as well as the cameras. I also can see this photo in B&W it'll look really cool. 

Week 4 ; Photoshop

So in this portrait I pulled in my texture photo onto my portrait. This was the first time I had ever used these tools, at first I found it difficult. It's good to know all these things, but in my personal photos I don't think I'll use these tools. 

In this photo for the first time I experienced using the brush tool, as well as a layer mask, and fillings. As you can see I used my brush tool so the texture is only showing over the face. I really like the outcome of this photo. 

Using the B&W adjustment layer, I made this image B&W. Then I created a layer mask, and chose an area of the photo to get some colour back in. 

I colour corrected this photo by using the adjustment layers. I found this tool very easy to use. I played around with it at first. I thought this will be hard, but I personally think this is much easier than Camera Raw in a few ways. Not everything is easy on it, but the colour correcting is. I wouldn't use the Hue/saturation. I used the curve, and found it very simple to see. 

Week 1, Shutter Speed, Research.

Joseph Koudelka was born in Moravia, made his first photographs while a student in the 1950s. In 1961 he started photographing. He turned to full time photography in 1967. 

 1967. Gypsies.

I really like this photo as he's captured them in action. I would think he is using a fast shutter speed here. 

For the slow shutter speed my photographer is The Invisible Landscape. 
He is a photographer I found on Instagram, most of his photos are taken with very low shutter speed. He's based in Melbourne, but also travels all over Australia nearly every weekend. 

Week 3 Framing and Composition, Manual Mode.

During class time we practiced Framing and Composition, as well as shooting in manual mode. Not much of it was new to me, I always shoot in Manual mode. The only different thing was I actually stopped to think where I was, and what I was going to shoot. I found most of it very simple, the only thing I really did struggle with was the rule of third, but luckily at the end I got the hang of it.

Above is my close up of Jayde. I also edited it on camera raw. Looks very soft, and beautiful. This is one of my favourite photos. I love how her scarf pops, and her hair colour looks amazing. 

Now here is the photo I took to show my understanding of filling the frame with pattern. If you look down the bottom of the photo, you could see the clouds reflecting on the windows. I converted this into black and white, and added a bit of detail to the photo. 

This is my Bernd and Hilla Becher inspired photo. I also converted this to black and white because it just didn't look as interesting in colour. It was very boring, I felt like I was just looking across the road. 

Above is the low angle I took of Jayde, and I chose the background and told her what to do. This photo also is evidence that I know how shoot and show 'triangles' in a photograph. 

Now with this one, it took me the longest. As I mentioned before taking a photo with the rule of thirds intersections, was a bit difficult with me. The strange thing is when I don't pay attention to it, it's perfect, but because I was paying so much attention to it, it took me a while. A lot of practice till I got this photo right. 

Week 4 Richard Orjis

Photographer Richard Orjis, was born in Whanganui, New Zealand and studied at the Auckland University Of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University.

All his work is designed to illustrated non-existent, shadowy social groups, engaged in ambiguous activity. They appear to be a group of Europeans who have gone feral in a tropical jungle. Covered wholly or partially in mud, they stare dully out at the camera through elaborate necklaces and garlands of brightly coloured, sensuous flowers. Mud was the medium of Orjis’ graduation show in 2006, My Empire of Dirt. Using mud and water, he did a fey series of works on paper depicting semi-clad figures singly and in groups.

Welcome to the Jungle : Richard Orjis : The Physics : 2008 

I am in love with this photo. The dark, muddy, and then the bright flowers just go with one another. This is one of my favourite images I've ever come across. The mud on his face is something I haven't come across before, so it really does interest me. 

Smoke, photographic print, 2008

I found this photo on google, and took me forever to find a little information about it. So I find out that's smoke. I'm still trying to to figure out, how'd he get it so perfect? Is it all photoshopped? Or did he take a photo of smoke and photoshop it? It gets you wondering this one.