Thursday Thoughts

This week, we focused on finishing our projects. The class focused and worked on the 10 photos we had for part one and today we uploaded them to our individual blogs. We also went over exporting to refresh pur memory:

1. rename the photo

2. edit the photo

3. export photo

4. export with specified name Joseph gives (Maher - 01 City)

5. fin-

Architecture + Urban Project: Part 1

Urban

17 February, 2013

49mm

ISO 200

f/5.6

1/200 sec

Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square (701 SW 6th Avenue, Portland, OR)

A street sign with many direction points, both fictional and not. I think it may be the center of Portland, but I'm not sure.

Cityscape

9 March, 2013

34 mm

ISO 200

f/5.6

1/1250 sec

Location: Pittock Mansion (3229 NW Pittock Dr, Portland, OR)

I considered attempting a panorama shot, but I chose to first focus on teaching myself how to properly shoot wide-angle photos.

Juxtaposition

8 March, 2013

40 mm

ISO800

f/5.6

1/1600 sec

Location: Powell's City of Books (1005 W Burnside St, Portland, OR)

I've seen these at Powell's quite often, and I feel like they're always unnoticed.

Urban

8 March, 2013

27 mm

ISO 800

f/5.6

1/25 sec

Location: Powell's City of Books (1005 W Burnside St, Portland, OR)

A few weeks previously, I found a magazine pictured here with a favourite person of mine. While was there, I noticed the nice textures magazines make, and I wanted a photo of the favourite person on a magazine, so this happened.

Street (Stranger)

17 February, 2013

21 mm

ISO 200

f/4.5

1/200 sec
Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square (701 SW 6th Avenue, Portland, OR)
He didn't give me his name, but Joseph has his email. He asked me to take his photo and was very nice.

Street (Candid)

17 February, 2013

30 mm

ISO 200

f/4.5

1/125 sec

Location: Waterfront Bike Trail, Portland, OR

A family portrait while the youngest member frolics with Kelsey and Tali.

Street (Environmental Portrait)

17 February, 2013

55 mm

ISO 200

f/5.6

1/100 sec

Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square (701 SW 6th Avenue, Portland, OR)

An uncle and nephew meandering about.

Architecture (Exterior Architecture)

8 March, 2013

55 mm

ISO 200

f/5.6

1/1600 sec

Location: Hawthorne Bridge

Driving in a car with my dad, we were stopped in traffic.

17 Architecture (Interior Architecture)

3 March, 2013

40 mm

ISO 1600

f/4.5

1/125 sec

Location: Crystal Ballroom (1332 W Burnside St, Portland, OR)

I was at my cousin's concert and The Crystal is a ballroom, and ballrooms are exquisitely detailed.

Architecture (Exterior Architecture)

8 March, 2013

55 mm

ISO 200

f/5.6

1/1600 sec
Location: 1200 Northwest 10th Avenue, Portland, Oregon

I was walking around and decided to take this shot on the way back to my car.

3 March, 2013

55 mm

ISO 1600

f/7.1

1/125 sec
Location:Crystal Ballroom (1332 W Burnside St, Portland, OR)
My groovy cousin who walks on stilts for a living at his band's concert.

Wednesday Summary

Today we didn't have Joseph. He left the class with the whole period to do our projects. I finished picking the best of my photos - 23 currently, but I'm still whittling them down - and started editing them. The official process has begun, and I am quite nervous since we have one more week to finish the projects - and next week is finals week. I'm very confident that I'll finish, but I'm staying late to work on my photos.

Thursday Thoughts

7 March, 2013 Edition

This week we discussed with portrait photography.

Examples of portrait photography:

http://www.gregoryheisler.com

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• http://www.fivezerothree.com/

definition: Portrait photography or portraiture is the capture by means of photography of the likeness of a person or a small group of people (a group portrait), in which the face and expression is predominant.

So our yearbook photos, for example, would be portraits.

We also spoke about lighting with artificial lights and the reflectors - which I especially wanted to throw like a frisbee.

http://www.mediacollege.com/lighting/three-point/

The Three Point Lighting Technique is a standard method used in visual media such as video, film, still photography and computer-generated imagery. It is a simple but versatile system which forms the basis of most lighting. Once you understand three point lighting you are well on the way to understanding all lighting.

The technique uses three lights called the key light, fill light and backlight. Naturally you will need three lights to utilise the technique fully, but the principles are still important even if you only use one or two lights. As a rule:

• If you only have one light, it becomes the key.
• If you have 2 lights, one is the key and the other is either the fill or the backlight.

~Key Light~

-This is the main light. It is usually the strongest and has the most influence on the look of the scene. It is placed to one side of the camera/subject so that this side is well lit and the other side has some shadow.

~Fill Light~

-This is the secondary light and is placed on the opposite side of the key light. It is used to fill the shadows created by the key. The fill will usually be softer and less bright than the key. To achieve this, you could move the light further away or use some spun. -You might also want to set the fill light to more of a flood than the key.

~Backlight~

-The backlight is placed behind the subject and lights it from the rear. Rather than providing direct lighting (like the key and fill), its purpose is to provide definition and subtle highlights around the subject's outlines. -This helps separate the subject from the background and provide a three-dimensional look.

If you have a fourth light, you could use it to light the background of the entire scene.