Evaluation for Tom.

In our lessons with Tom we have covered quite a few things, and even though I wasn't there for a few of them unfortunately. I did manage to catch up on most of it and learn from other peoples notes and my own research.
Firstly we covered street photography, I love doing this I just think I need to actually over come the anxiousness of taking a picture of someone and worrying they'll say something to me. I do think on our trips out I came up with a few images that I am really happy with, these are on my blog further down. I think to improve my street photography I need to also take alot more pictures, I have the habit of only taking a few shots that I know I'll be happy with, but I also get that I could also miss a good shot, so I'll try and take more pictures on future trips.
We also did light painting, although I wasn't there for when we did this in class, I read my friends notes and had a go myself

Stereograms with Steve

Today we learnt about stereograms, I'd done a bit about them for my art history for my other project, so it was great to get to have a go at one. 

First we got given some two images on a paper, both slightly different to another and a pair of glasses. 

Wearing a pair of reading glasses, looking at the images your eyed made it 3D because your eyes put the images together

Me looking really smart obviously..

Although it did work for me like this, it was alot easier with a view finder like this which made sure your eyes looked at the right image.

This was my go at one, it worked really well for me :D

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Film and Dark Room project with Dervin

For the start of this project before we took any of our final photographs, we had to go out and take some test shots and learn how to use the dark room first.
Here are mine and Robyns negatives from our practise shoot, alot of them didn't come out, but we were really happy with the ones that did.

Next we did a test strip to see how long we needed to expose the picture for

We worked out that 4 seconds was the best, I think.

Here was my picture

Then we turned up the contrast in the enlarger

Then here is Robyns image, then her next with the contrast up a bit

Flash guns

Here I had a go at messing about with my flash gun and reflectors to light up my friend Greg :) 

The top two are direct flash gun, then bouncing the flash, then with a little soft box on it, then on the bottom row I bounced the flash off the different reflectors to see what each different one did :) 

Thankyou greg! :D

Sophieee

Landscapes with Tom

Why would you use a tripod for landscape photography?

To get as clear image as possible, using a slow shutter speed and a low ISO. Make sure the bracketing images are all the same. 

Why would you use bracketing? (three exposures)

To get all of the parts of the image perfectly exposed, like the sky with the under exposed picture and the foreground with the over exposed image.

Things to think about with landscape images.

Natural framing, rule of thirds, creating a focal point, composition and adding depth into the photo with different angles. 

We learnt about different metering modes, and how to read histograms.

I went to the moors with my dad to take some pictures, he's the bracketing images that I came up with, then with the originals underneath.

Picture oneee

Picture twoooo

Photo threee 

Here I used the bracketing method again but tried to do natural framing. :)

Then here are some other images I took that day that I thought I'd put in :)

Next I had to look at different photographers that does landscape photography. 

Here's Dan Holdsworth who I looked at first.

I absolutely love this picture, I'd love to have a go at photographing star trails.

I next looked at the photographer Lee Frost. 

This picture really appealed to me after the pictures we took today at the abbey :)

It makes me want to go back and take some more pictures and try a panorama too. 

The next photographer I found was Mike McFarlane. 

I absolutely love how perfectly exposed everything is, and the reflections in the water are beautiful. I would absolutely love to come up with a picture like this :)
Today we all went to kirkstill abbey in Leeds to take some pictures, we were supposed to do some bracketing pictures but because the sky was so light they didn't work as well as I'd hoped so I only ended up with one picture  really liked, which is this one.

I plan to go back there when it's a bit more of a nicer day

These are the rest of the images that I came up with today that I was happy with :)

Here I went to whitby and had another go at bracketing and landscape pictures.

Photoshop and in camera correction.

Different parts of the picture need to be corrected at certain parts of the image making.

For example noise in a picture is mostly needed to be corrected in camera with a low ISO, slight noise can be reduced in photoshop but it does soften the image. The exposure of the image can be corrected both in camera and in photoshop, it's better to get a good exposed image in camera though, but then if you've shot the photograph in RAW in photoshop you can now easily correct the exposure.

An interesting composition to the photograph can be done both in camera in photoshop. With in camera it depends on where you take the picture from, what angle and how much you zoom into the photograph . But with photoshop this can be fixed through clone stamping objects out, and cropping the image to make it look better.

The colors of the photograph can be changed in camera with the white balance used, but is mostly an in camera effect with changing the colour balance and all the different levels, brightness and saturation. 

The contrast and brightness of the image can be altered in camera with all the different settings you use, but is easier to change in photoshop than trying to change camera settings.