Todays
lesson
9pm - 9.10 Memory
check
9.15 – 10.30 Produce final images using lighting setup (last weeks task -
six photographs of each one of your objects from three different angles – x4
edited and annotated
Produce/finish your photographic proposal (not to be
confused with your video proposal) – 400words
10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 12.00 Produce your freak or unique advert using the photography you have
produced during last two weeks
Memory check
Q1. Would we use a large or a small apature
to achieve a shallow depth of field?
Ans.
Large
Q2. When would we use the ‘S’ control setting
one the camera mode dial.
Ans.
You would use the s control setting when photographing sport or a race etc.
Q3. What do we do to make the camera achieve
focus?
Ans. Use
the shutter function and hold it half way without letting go to achieve focus.
Q4. Name three items needed when producing a seamless
background lighting set-up
Ans.
Set up a redhead, a white background for staging and lastly a camera attached
to a tripod for the shooting.
Q5. When focusing the camera,
what do we place on the object/subject to ensure it is the center of focus?
Ans. The green square is the point of focus.
Q6. What must we do when we
finish using the light to ensure it doesn't get broken?
Turn the light off so that it doesn't overheat, as this will cause the light bulb to break
Proposal
For this assignment, I essentially have to produce a seamless background for my freaky photography in one final montage, that is the overall goal. I was thinking I would do something similar to what I'm doing in my video production groups which is a suit advert based around a horse mask in for the twist. I could take several shots of me posing in a suit and tie with the addition of a horse mask in 4 or more different poses; front face, back. sides and a seated angle. Referring back to my week 2 research I was inspired by these images in particular. The one with the man and the dog is the one I'm most keen on recreating. Ironically enough I have my own dog so this is something I can recreate exactly or more or less similar. This is mostly depending on how much my dog would be willing to co-operate. The man in the gas mask is what i would do for the front face, instead of the gas mask however i would have a horse head. It would actually look pretty funny come to think of it: a horse starring directly at the camera would be priceless. Lastly the nebula image, I want to do something similar to the whole galaxy aspect with the seamless background, it adds a taste of mysteriousness.
For this assignment, I essentially have to produce a seamless background for my freaky photography in one final montage, that is the overall goal. I was thinking I would do something similar to what I'm doing in my video production groups which is a suit advert based around a horse mask in for the twist. I could take several shots of me posing in a suit and tie with the addition of a horse mask in 4 or more different poses; front face, back. sides and a seated angle. Referring back to my week 2 research I was inspired by these images in particular. The one with the man and the dog is the one I'm most keen on recreating. Ironically enough I have my own dog so this is something I can recreate exactly or more or less similar. This is mostly depending on how much my dog would be willing to co-operate. The man in the gas mask is what i would do for the front face, instead of the gas mask however i would have a horse head. It would actually look pretty funny come to think of it: a horse starring directly at the camera would be priceless. Lastly the nebula image, I want to do something similar to the whole galaxy aspect with the seamless background, it adds a taste of mysteriousness.
All of the props I' will be bringing in is a horse mask, suit blazer , white shirt, charcoal black trousers as well as the formal leather laced up brogue shoes; these are the props I will be bringing in. I don't have a specific time period I'd like to shoot these images at, If I had to choose however, it would have to be a sunny day, so that the lighting reflects off of my black suit and the horse mask. For the seamless background i was thinking I would use the logo which I'm using for my filming project and make a pattern with it. I already looked up a tutorial on how to produce this type of pattern. For the actual shooting I believe I'll be needing a partner to compose these shots for me. I would consider asking Scottie from our class if he would be willing enough to help me out. I'll be taking these photos in the courtyard at the campus, some place that is not too crowded or busy with decent lighting.
These are just some of he example of what the lighting was like at first, and quite freckly it was absolutely awful. We learned from our mistakes and turned on flash, this immediately improved the lighting.
Another problem occurred only after I got home to work on these images in Photoshop, when i tried to zoom on them it would go all pixelated due to the resolution. The following day i got one of my family members to take some of the same images in my back garden, I was surprised at how good some of the shots were actually amazing
Most of these images if not all are altered using the curves and level functions. I picked out 39 images out of all of the 72 of them I believe. The dog photographs are some of my favourites especially the one where I'm having a stare down with my dog.
I used this one as one of my images for the seamless background.
This one is another one of my favourites, i used this one for the seamless background as well.
This was the photograph after I successful used the pen tool to cut around the image. I also used the brush tool to fade in some of the horse mask hair which some of it had merged with the background.
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