assign 31 photography skills and editing skills

Assignment 3: Photography Research & Practice

L/O: to learn about photography basics and basic photo editing to make your presentation (for evidence of the processes and

technology)

A) PhotographyB) Photo editing

For this task you will need….

• iphoto on your ipad! (its free now)

• There are other great photo editing programs too

Photography basics

Photography basics (production)• Lighting (various things) break up into parts• Shutter speed• Shallow focus / deep focus• Transferring photo’s to computer (file and iphoto)• Composition break up into parts

– rule of thirds– Powerpoints– changing angle/perspective– framing– leading lines

Dividing the work

• After watching the slides you will have to think carefully of how you are dividing the work

• Lighting is MASSIVE, Composition is BIG

• It is group, but you have to have understanding of all of these things!

Lighting

• Overexposure• Underexposure• Key (high key, low key)• Fill • Using flash• Reflecting/reflectors• Diffusing/diffusers

• When using iPad, rely on good daylight and cheap lighting (flood lights) and DIY reflectors

Flood lights

• Cheap and easy to get (hardware stores)• From 10-30 pounds

underexposure

overexposure

Good exposure

underexposed

Just right

overexposed

Over under

Setting up lighting

Called: 3 point lighting system

High key lighting: flooded with all light

Low key lighting: strong contrasts

Fill

Using flash

• Can’t rely on this alone• Too harsh of light (direct)• Often causes over/under exposure

Using direct flash

Linking filling and flash

• Using flash (or other light) can be a way to FILL

• (meaning filling in the shadows)

Diffuse

• Diffuse = disseminate, reduce, make less

• Because direct flash is so strong, you can DIFFUSE it to make it more soft

• There are many tools and techniques to do this

More professional diffusers

DIYdiffusers

Natural diffuse

• The leaves areDiffusing the light of the sun

Reflect

• Reflecting is another way to diffuse light • Basically light is reflected or bounced off another surface

(therefore making it less harsh)• The more light bounces, the less harsh it is• Different surfaces/textures/colours will reflect light differently

(shiny, opaque, translucent)

• .

Reflect (therefore diffuse)

Shutter speed

• How fast shutter opens• Slow = likely to blur• Fast = like to be more crisp• Motion blur– Motion blur type 1 (background is blurry)– Motion blur type 2 (object is blurry)

• Exposure– Long exposure– Paint lighting

• Shutter is like eyeAnd eye lids of a camera

It is like how a camera blinks

FAST SHUTTER SPEED

• Capturing split second

Very fast shutter speed!

Motion blur

• When something blurs because it is in motion

• This means it is going too fast for the shutter speed

• (object is faster than shutter)

• Type 1• Type 2

Type 1

• The objects are crisp, background blurry

• (moving camera)

Type 2: objects blurry

What does this create in photos?

Exposure

• Time of exposure = how long the camera is exposed to light

• Faster shutter speed = less light (and more likely to be darker)

• Slower shutter speed = more light gets in faster (more likely to be lighter)

Shutter speed and light

Long exposure at night (using tripod)

Light painting

Long exposure with light/flash

Shallow focus

• When have something in focus, the rest blurry• Limited on automatic cameras• When taking photos, tap for focus square……

or try with close ups• You can do this in editing (is limited tho) (blur

tools)

Deep Focus

• Everything in focus (automatic cameras)

Transfer photos from camera to computer

• How do you do this?• SD card – SD card reader• Cables• Bluetooth• Electronic transfers – email, sharing, social media etc• Cloud

• Uploading/opening them

• Think of the technologies involved in this process

Composition: rule of thirds

• Review rule• To make better photographs (nicer/more

pleasing to look at)

Composition: powerpoints

• In combination with rule of thirds; the AXIS points of horizontal/vertical lines.

• 4 available (where horiz/vert lines meet)• -theory argues things placed in powerpoints

make the best composition

Composition: angles/perspectives

• Try to photograph objects/places/people using different angles and perspectives

• The world becomes a different place!• The life on an ant vs life of a bird• This goes great with establishing

shots/montage editing for your introductions

Normal photography/shots

Try different angles!

• Get low!!!

Composition: framing

• How you frame objects/people• Frame using unique angles• Positive space• Negative space• Is the space around objects appropriate and

comfortable for audience?• Does it show off the objects/characters

appropriately?

Yikes!

Good framing

Composition: leading lines

• Lines that lead your eye• Usually lines to lead your eye to an object• (sort of like a journey)• Create movement in a composition

• Don’t have to bestraight lines…

Photography apps

• iPhoto photo editing• Snapseed photo editing• Slow Shutter changing shutter speed• Colour Effects manipulating colour• Guardian eyewitness?

• Any others???

Assignment 31

• Printed booklet

• A = due wed• B = due fri

• Divide the work…..

• Make your powerpoint template….

Photo editingBasic photo editing in iphoto (post-production)• opening a photo• undo (arrow) (bottom corner star - remove effect)• revert to original (page icon beside edit)• crop & rotate• changing colour• changing exposure (lightness/darkness)• brushes (repair, red eye, saturate, desaturate, lighten, darken, sharpen, soften)• effects (b&w, vintage, duotone etc)• auto enhance• rotate• naming, tagging• sharing: email, journal, camera roll, itunes, facebook, imovie, etc.

• If using snapseed or other programs = what tools/techniques can you used?

Open app

• Open and play with iphoto

• Remember = SCREEN GRABS!