karen study book from A-level to help with my photograph (unit 1 part A/ B)

Practical experience through practitioner.
Karen old A-level sketch useful tool to see visual how to create a photograph and show step by step guide how I could practise my own skills.

 

Depth of Field and Aperture

There are a number of results of changing the aperture of your shots that you’ll want to keep in mind as you consider your setting but the most noticeable one will be the depth of field that your shot will have.

Depth of Field (DOF) is that amount of your shot that will be in focus. Large depth of field means that most of your image will be in focus whether it’s close to your camera or far away (like the picture to the left where both the foreground and background are largely in focus – taken with an aperture of f/22).

Small (or shallow) depth of field means that only part of the image will be in focus and the rest will be fuzzy (like in the flower at the top of this post (click to enlarge). You’ll see in it that the tip of the yellow stems are in focus but even though they are only 1cm or so behind them that the petals are out of focus. This is a very shallow depth of field and was taken with an aperture of f/4.5).

Macro photographers tend to be big users of large apertures to ensure that the element of their subject that they are focusing in on totally captures the attention of the viewer of their images while the rest of the image is completely thrown out of focus.

more practise . leaning off Karen Duckworth and developing own skills (unit 1 part A and B)

Img 6819 - f/3.5 ISO 1600 1/30 sec

 

Img 6820 - f/4 ISO 1600 1/25sec

  Img 6808- F/16 ISO 1600 1/3 sec

Step by step photograph taking with f/4 (unit 1 part A)

Img 6815 - f/4, ISO- 400 - 1/8 sec

Img 6817- F/4 ISO- 1600 1/20 sec

Img 6818 f/4 ISO 1600, 1/25 sec

photography basics learnt (unit 1 part B)

Photography Basic

 
Important to capability of seeing the surrounding and use knowledge and personal feel the subject you want to take photograph of. Photography is basically seeing and balancing the light.

 

 

Aperture is placed inside the lens and is basically an opening that controls how much light reaches the sensor.

 

 

A shutter is inside the camera body this is the key which controls how long the sensor is exposed to the light.

 

 

Aperture

Knowing how the aperture affects the photograph is one of the most important parts photograph. Affects the amount of light, depth of field, lens speed, sharpness .

Higher f-number = a smaller aperture = less light

Lower f-number =larger aperture =more light

 

Karen explain the best way of  learning how to get my head around aperture was to get my camera out and do some experimenting shots. so here I go ....

Advertising on Facebook, (unit 2 part A/B,)

Feedback form complete so far, collect yesterday after being in a meeting with Reveo commuity (unit 2 part E)

Collecting feedback was done by this questionnaire which was left in the hub so people could fill it out: results below

Feedback

I have collected some of the local people feedback from Culture shop to see what other though of the display example of some the quotes received are below. On the whole most people had positive feedback for the window display.  The only negative feedback I was inform of was “the piece seemed a little small so it hard to see”.  I had few people saying that had to go right up to the shop window to see the piece.  Further planning if I was to do the project again I would have lighting, spot lights on the piece and enlarge the photographs so they were bolder and made bigger impact on people.
 

The children said they enjoyed taking photograph and were pleased with the result they would like to keep own photographs. Children seem to enjoy the sessions especially going out to take photographs with their personal camera. I think the children would love take more photograph unfortunately the camera film was limited therefore maybe bigger filmed disposable cameras would have been better the children.  We asked if the hub/ Ibbison Court could keep the piece after the display had finished and also children requests for the copies of the photos they taken, showing they were pleased what they had done. “I've got to say, the girls did a brilliant job and the community group were thrilled with the workshops and the end result”. 

Lots of positive feedback about “It reflected the local area”  and “Captured the area well and gave a sense of history”. We pleased local people felt we had shown Reveo area well. “I loved the way the ageing process made each photo look like there was a story behind it- it makes Central Drive Mysterious!” The disposable cameras and editing the photographs was a good idea and work really well. “Reminding people of the good things in the area, People really thought they were old photos. Very interesting”.

      

What I have learnt from the feedback is that the piece should ideally bigger and should have used light. If I were run the project, again I would maybe make the photographs larger so they could be seen from across the street. I also think have put spot lights in the window would highlighted the piece from outside to get more people attenuation.  I personally think if we had more time we would have been able to scoured better materials to display the photographs, this would gave the shop window a more professional overall look.

Research on photograph techinques (unit 1 part A/C)

Been to the library to get some books on more techniques and to learn understand photograph.   I fell there is a lot to learn the main point from both books and practitioners is the more practice the better understand I will gain, Lighting also a Key factor with photography.