photography

Stock Shots     27th September 2016

Slow speeds in the car park is another way of keeping students safe because the cars will be going at a smaller speed; allowing the students to be safe around the college throughout the week.

students being safe at college- making sure your'e crossing the road safely. One of the obvious reasons to show safety is the zebra crossing and how students take advantage of crossing roads.

The mirror shown in the corner of the hallway is another example of safety for the students as it is important for students to know what is coming round the corner to allow them to not run into or bump into anyone walking the opposite way.

importance of nutritional foods- vending machines are the main reason for unhealthy eating. Having these spaced around the college doesn't allow the importance of healthy foods overpower the love for chocolate,sweets and crisps.

No smoking signs to highlight the key areas danger associated with smoking and how it can damage a human. Photo below conveys the irritation of smoking and how majority of people don't like the idea of having smokers around them.




Examples of stock shot:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1861092/the-5-foods-you-should-never-eat-again-according-to-a-nutritionist/
Looking on The Sun website the image of a crushed coke can could be a stock shot because it could also be used for any other health related articles or blogs. 

This is an example of a stock shot, this could be used for many different article and stories as it shows buildings, the public and cars. This could be used to describe population, Pollution and how much we are now creating or it could be about destinations to visit.

4th October 2016 FOCUS

A DSLR camera is an abbreviation for it stands for Digital Single Lens Reflex. 

The task today was to take two photos of the same object and manually focus with the camera onto the object.  To focus the camera manually you have to slightly twist the lens at the end of the camera to focus it at the object. 







The difference between these photos is that there is one in focus and one out of focus. 

Depth of field:

Our task was to take photos to show the difference between the shallow depth of field, the meaning of depth of field is

1. (in photography) the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects giving a focused image.
   To do this you need to use the F button to change the aperture of the image. 

  

Tuesday 11th October 2016 

In today's lesson we looked at the difference between hard and soft light,  soft light is light when it has been diffused for example through a lamp shade or from clouds. This photo uses soft light as there is no shadows and light directly shining towards me. Today our source of light we were using was the sun. 

This photo uses hard light because there is shadows and the light from the sun has not been diffused.  Some sources of light cane from the sun/daylight, lightbulb, from a fire or from the moon. Light also has four main properties which are: Quantity, quality, direction and colour.
















Tuesday 18th October 2016
learning how to use a white balance setting and to change it to create warmer and colder light.





Colour connotations are the meaning behind each colour and what it might mean, for example red could portray activeness, boldness, confidence or ambition whereas the darker shades could make the image portray darker meanings and hint danger or sadness.

This is an example of a colour harmony:



Colour juxtaposition is when the pairing of one and the same colour with a variety of different colours, the different colour of each of the afterimages will affect your perception of those colours which uses contrast. An example of colour juxtaposition is: 

Thursday 3rd November 2016

Focal Points: 

The term focal point is mainly what the image is trying to show and what people most want to look at within the image. It also refers to "the site where parallel rays of light meet after passing through a convex lens, or diverging from a concave mirror" - https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/tips-and-solutions/importance-focal-points-photographic-composition 

Rule of thirds: 

Rule of thirds is when the screen is set up into 9 squares and the idea is to line up the main section of the image by using the guidelines, for example placing the horizon on the top or bottom line, or allowing linear features in the image to flow from different sections. 

Leading Lines: 

Wednesday 9th November 2016  

Leading Lines: Leading lines "are one of the most effective and under-utilised compositional tools available to photographers. They're used to draw a viewers attention to a specific part of the frame, whether it's a person, or a vanishing point in the background of the frame." 

Some Examples of leading lines: 

Negative space, Symmetry, Repetition and pattern: 

Wednesday 16th November 2016
Denotation is the straight forward meaning of an image and what you instantly think of the image.
Connotation is the meaning behind the image and the additional feelings you have towards it- in addition to its primary meaning.



Wednesday 7th December 2016



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