tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71360331771214703842024-03-13T07:50:33.685-07:00OCA degree coursefotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-90088174496933204582011-11-19T04:05:00.000-08:002011-11-19T04:05:45.777-08:00A Narrative Picture Essay For this exercise I decided to photograph the process of making a pizza at home in the style of a magazine or cookery book, I wanted to practise the lighting skill learnt in the previous assignment.<br />
I set up a single light with a soft box and a large white reflector for infill when required, I had decided to keep things simple. Throughout the images I tried to include a sense of movement and a light airy feel.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Add 500ml of hand hot water</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Add a teaspoon of sugar</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and 900gms of strong bread flour</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Knead for 10 minutes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Test that the dough springs back when prodded</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Form into tangerine sized balls</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sprinkle with flour, cover with a damp teatowel and leave in a warm place for 2 hours</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meanwhile prepare your chosen toppings</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tear up a ball of Mozzerella</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When risen stretch out the dough until thin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spread with tomato sauce, I use passatta</td></tr>
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<span id="goog_1991359239"></span><span id="goog_1991359240"></span>fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-76513463726745763622011-11-03T06:45:00.000-07:002011-11-03T06:45:26.777-07:00Ernst Haas, A World in Ruins 1945-48, Rupertinum, Salzburg Whilst on a recent visit to Salzburg in Austria I was lucky enough to be able to view an exhibition of photographs taken by Ernst Haas (1921-1986) taken after the end of the Second World War in Vienna. At this time much of Vienna was in ruins as it had been the subject of fifty two air raids and the Battle of Vienna which raged from the 5th -13th April 1945. ( Lichtblau,A,2005).<br />
Haas was advised to photograph this world around him by the publisher of <i>DU </i>magazine, Alfred Kubler, who Haas had shown his early, more pictorialist, work to in the hope of getting it published.( Chardin,V, 2010 ) Kubler showed Haas the work of Swiss Photographer Werner Bischof ( 1916-1954 ) who was documenting the destruction of Berlin in a much more straight photographic style.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Werner Bischof, Reichstag Building, Berlin 1946</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Spurred on by the power of Bischofs' work Haas took his camera out on to the streets of Vienna, many of these early pictures show Haas' use of bright sun and deep shadows to deconstruct the shapes of the ruined buildings, which echoes his later work in New York where he skillfully used colours and reflections to a similar end. His most successful pictures of this period show the people of Vienna trying to carry on with life in their devastated city, sometimes the people are tiny figures in an overwhelming sea of broken bricks and masonry, but the most compelling are those which juxtapose the devastation with ordinary life, even trying to find a small amount of pleasure.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ernst Haas, Sunbathers, Vienna 1946-48</td></tr>
</tbody></table> In the picture of the sunbathing family above Haas has managed to find an element of humour, in what must have been dreadful circumstances, which makes it all the more touching and effective.<br />
Haas photographed many of the invalids returned from the war with missing legs, once again using clever juxtapositions to highlight their loss, rows of wheelchair users watching a foot ball match, whilst others spectators legs dangle into the top of the picture from the seats above. The young legs of a group of boys retreating from a burnt and discarded false leg. Still Haas manages to find a kind of black humour in this situation.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ernst Haas, Homecoming Prisoner, Vienna, 1946-48</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This picture has a certain humour, but it also causes you to start asking questions, who is he waiting for, why isn't he wearing his leg. Also because of how he is carrying his leg, he has a kind of awful symmetry.<br />
Haas also photographed the soup kitchens that were springing up all over Vienna, there were terrible food shortages, the daily ration was limited 800 calories per day and rationing did not end until 1953. These images tend to show a thoroughly demoralized population, all the structure of their society has been destroyed and they were also confused, were they as Ernst Fischer states " <i>Liberated Austrians or defeated Germans ", </i>as approximately 800,000 Austrians had fought alongside the Nazis.<br />
It is for pictures of these returning soldiers that Haas first found fame, he was apparently waiting at the station to collect a model when he noticed a crowd gathering. The crowd was waiting for a train bringing returned prisoners of war, Haas mainly concentrated on the faces of the waiting crowd, which is mainly wives and mothers. The tension in these pictures is palpable as is the relief of recognition, Haas cleverly uses a beam of light to single out one old woman, eyes closed in prayer around her head a halo of white hair, this use of light would become a trademark for haas' later work.( Zuckriegl,M, 2005) Part of this set of images became one of Haas' most famous.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Returning Prisoner of War, Vienna, 1946-48</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Once again we see Haas' use of the tension between the happy and relaxed returnee and the worried and despairing mother holding up the picture of her missing son, the man is totally oblivious to her.<br />
The photograph that affected me the most shows the sheer raw emotion of a mother embracing her returning son.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ernst Haas, Returning Prisoner of War, Vienna, 1946-48</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The mothers face seems to show all the complex emotions that we all feel at these times of high drama.<br />
I find it interesting that a photographer who in his later career was probably best known for his more abstract colour images, should have started his professional life with such a set of very human photographs. It is easy to see why this set of images catapulted Haas into the limelight and opened the doors to the Magnum agency, I have read them derided as snapshots, if that is true it shows that an empathy with your subject is more important than technical knowledge.<br />
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References : Lichtblau.A,2005,<i>Ernst Haas A World in Ruins,Vienna 1945-1948, A Photographic Essay,</i>Verlag,Weitra<br />
Chardin,V,2010,<i>Ernst Haas,</i>Thames & Hudson,London.<br />
www.artnet.com.03/11/11<br />
5000photographs.blogspot.com/2011/07/Ernst Haas,03/11/11<br />
chagalov.tumblr.com,03/11/11<br />
Zuckriegl,M,2005,<i>Ernst Haas A World in Ruins, Vienna 1945-1948, A photographic Essay,</i>Verlag,Weitra,<br />
www.redcross.int/EN/mag/magazine2000.03/11/11<br />
www.ernst-haas.com/bwgallery04,03/11/11fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-84976904590480044292011-10-24T07:59:00.000-07:002011-10-24T07:59:35.498-07:00Assignment 4, Applying Lighting Techniques For this assignment I decided to make a series of portraits of my daughter, Hope, I obviously needed to fulfill the brief of the exercise and show texture, shape, form and colour, but I also wanted to find out how lighting would affect the mood of the portraits.<br />
Portrait photography has a very important place in the history photography as it was its' first great commercial success as the huge popularity of the <i>carte de visite </i>in the 1850's, where small photographic portraits were used as calling cards, or as collector cards of the great and good.(Badger,G 2007)<br />
It was not until I started to research portrait photography for this assignment that I realized that it was such a complicated and contentious issue. The debate seems to revolve around what should and does a photographic portrait, portray.We have all heard terms like "the eyes are the window to the soul" and that a portrait should capture the character or the secret inner being of the sitter, but David Bailey(1938-) states that " <i>should you set out to portray ' inner character' in a photographic portrait you will find aim is a will-o'-the-wisp"(Hughes,G 1981). </i>He carries on to say that the best you can hope to achieve is a caricature of the subject and that by close examination of the sitter the photographer should try to exaggerate their prominent features or gestures.This seems a rather shallow approach and seems unlikely to achieve a flattering result. Here we must remember that Bailey is a celebrity portrait photographer so his subjects are well known and so the public have a preconceived perception of them that Bailey has to deliver, they come with a back story. This highlights the two types of portrait, the society and the social, the society relates to the portraits of the aristocracy and high achievers and the social is of the man in the street. If we look at some of the social portraits of the past, such as those of August Sander(1876-1964), Walker Evans(1903-1975) or Paul Strand(1886-1976), we have no idea who the subjects are, we can make assumptions from the attached titles and their clothes and surroundings but we are unlikely to find out their names or backgrounds, we therefore see them as types. If we take Strands' Young Boy, <i>Gondeville,France 1951 </i>as an example.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young Boy,<i>Gondeville,France 1951</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table> We can see from his clothes and surroundings that he probably lives in the countryside, that he possibly works on a farm, so he becomes a type, he is a young French farmhand from the 1950's. Strand is devolved of any responsibility to try to get beyond any surface appearances, to try to get the boy to drop his guard, in fact it is boys' direct, impenetrable gaze which gives the picture its power.( Hoffman, M 1976)<br />
The camera is seen as a very impassive tool, " the camera never lies", so does that mean with these social portraits that the photographer has no effect on the outcome, Strand chose this particular boy, possibly told him to stand in front of the old wooden building, possibly to get out of the sun, maybe for effect. Even with the secret, candid portraits taken by both Strand and Evans, they both still chose their subjects. In Evans' famous series of New York subway pictures he took truly candid pictures of his fellow travelers in an attempt to capture unposed portraits, because it is the pose that which the photographer is trying to strip away, as Roland Barthes(1915-1980) states, "<i> once I feel myself being observed by the lens, everything changes: I constitute myself in the process of "posing," I instantaneously make another body for myself , I transform myself in advance into an image."( </i>Barthes,R 1993)<br />
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</tbody></table><i> </i> Although Evans has achieved his aim of the completely unposed portrait, the decision was still his as to when the exposure was made, and his preferred type of subject shows very strongly, Evans states himself that "<i>The secret of photography is that the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler. The mind works on the machine." (Bosworth,P 2005).</i> This problem was finally resolved by Phillip-Lorca diCorca (1953-) in 2000 with his series Heads, the portraits were taken automatically as the unaware subjects passed over a predetermined spot, diCorca says that he was trying to capture individuals rather than types.<br />
<i> </i>Generally when we take a portrait we will try to influence its outcome, even at its most basic who has not been asked to smile for the camera, the problem with this approach is that it reinforces the "pose", how do we get beyond this. The most important thing is that the photographer must maintain control of the situation and then use that control to their advantage, the aim is to get the sitter to drop their public face, I do not think that any of the best portrait photographers would claim to uncover anyones' soul, Irving Penn(1917-2009) wrote " <i>In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is record able only insofar as it is apparent on the outside . . . I have at times seduced myself into a mystical belief in the penetrative power of the camera, but reflection always brings me back to accepting the picture process as simply the bounce back of light from a momentary arrangement of atoms that are a face.But that is not to say the power of a tender word, or a clumsy one, to affect those atoms, can be overstated. When light and the situation of the portrait picture are found and the sculptural arrangement made, it may be that the word is after all at the heart of the whole thing . . . Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe." (Keaney,M 2010). </i><br />
Portraitists have different methods of getting a subject to drop their facade, Penn would make a session last until his sitter was too tired to keep it up, Richard Avedon (1946-2004) would sometimes use the same trick or he would quickly shock his sitters with a few words. He said to the anti-Semitic poet Ezra Pound, " <i>I think you should know Mr Pound, that I'm Jewish " </i>as he took his pictures, he did something similar to the dog loving Duke and Duchess of Windsor, telling them " <i>I'm sorry I'm late. My taxi hit a dog." (Lahr,J 2008)</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Edward Duke of Windsor, 1957</td></tr>
</tbody></table><i> </i>As you can see the words had their effect, the royal veneer has been stripped away and we see expressions of concern and angst.<br />
Lastly I want to look at the way Diane Arbus took her portraits , she told one of her students she would " <i>stop at nothing to get the picture I wanted." </i>and then this from Germaine Greer "<i> She kept asking me all sorts of personal questions, and I became aware that she would only shoot when my face was showing tension or concern or boredom or annoyance ( and there was plenty of that, let me tell you), . . . It was tyranny. Really tyranny. Diane Arbus ended up straddling me- this frail little person kneeling, keening over my face. I felt completely terrorized by the blasted lens. It was a helluva struggle. Finally I decided. " Damn it, you're not going to do this to me, lady. I'm not going to be photographed like one of your freaks! " So I stiffened my face like a mask. Diane went right on merrily photographing- clickclickclickclick- cajoling me, teasing me, flattering me. This frail rosepetal creature kept at me like a laser beam. . . . It was a battle between us. Who won? It was a draw. After that afternoon I never saw her again. I never saw the photographs either."</i><br />
All of this bullying and cajoling and wearing down to the point of fatigue, might give us interesting portraits but does it show us the true person, or just a scared, bored or tired person. Or can we never really capture a person in a photograph, will any portrait only ever be as Barthes states ' a likeness of another likeness ad ifinitum '<br />
<i> </i>As I stated earlier I have taken a series of portraits of my daughter to see the effect of different types of lighting.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Covered Alley, Side Lighting</td></tr>
</tbody></table> I have taken the portrait above in a covered alleyway, which has given a short lit effect with a nice triangle of light under the nearest eye, which is reminiscent of Rembrandt lighting, named after the old master. The deep chiaroscuro gives good sculpting to the facial features and the side light reveals the texture of the skin, although you do not necessarily texture in a portrait.( Prakel, D 2007)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Covered Alley</td></tr>
</tbody></table> By moving Hope to the other side of the alleyway and closer to the entrance, I have achieved broad lighting. Now most of the face is lit, there is still nice gentle modelling to the face, which fits with her age better and because of the more frontal light texture is reduced.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silhouette at the Bus Stop</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This nice crisp silhouette was taken in front of a local bus stop which had had its poster taken out, I had my white balance set to auto and it came out with these lovely blues and greens.This obviously shows Hopes' shape, luckily it does not show the face she was pulling at having to pose in front of a bus stop outside the local shops.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Shade, In Hall just inside front Door</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This is the technique I normally use if I am asked to take a portrait, sitting the subject in the hall with the door open and shooting from outside, keeping them out of direct sunlight, gives a lovely flattering light. I have set the white balance to cloudy to get as much warmth and colour into the picture as possible.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Large Window, Gold Reflector</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Here I have stood Hope next to a patio door, which has given quite a strong side light and the I have lowered the contrast across her face by using a gold reflector as an infill. The gold reflector has added some warmth to her skin and lifted the colour in her eye.The side light has provided a good modelling light.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkC9sWkJFUupNENj8QmE4poyE7MVH-y8S5jLDTGNcvSzlJPYLoSMXwO66Hk1_ilJRBSXdrlQOfH58_mEUbVZtkX9zky2sv-BHI5GXb6LZOoe6FPmKuU1fsFApPJqx0zzGR9oJUe-KrQ0c/s1600/_DSC7992.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkC9sWkJFUupNENj8QmE4poyE7MVH-y8S5jLDTGNcvSzlJPYLoSMXwO66Hk1_ilJRBSXdrlQOfH58_mEUbVZtkX9zky2sv-BHI5GXb6LZOoe6FPmKuU1fsFApPJqx0zzGR9oJUe-KrQ0c/s640/_DSC7992.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flash Head, Barn Doors, No Diffusion</td></tr>
</tbody></table> In this image I have used a flash head with barn doors and no diffuser aimed at the back of Hopes head to show the texture in her hair, a small light at a low angle should reveal texture, so I have tried to get the light to glance the side of her head.( Hunter,F. Biver,S. Fuqua,P.2007) . I have placed a white reflector facing the light to bounce some light back onto Hopes face.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjOxz8J-y-IY2Mlin61lQGVM2_-C8vV_Y4exA1lIicGc1MDJR0OfBNDM2TiOM6DrhyphenhyphenUfbNEPqglNQ7wlEniUbpgen8vR9m-uDr24_K_QWsFfZCtOQvYn6Do7B-GVeTAkbTHIql3YNNAZs/s1600/_DSC8030.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjOxz8J-y-IY2Mlin61lQGVM2_-C8vV_Y4exA1lIicGc1MDJR0OfBNDM2TiOM6DrhyphenhyphenUfbNEPqglNQ7wlEniUbpgen8vR9m-uDr24_K_QWsFfZCtOQvYn6Do7B-GVeTAkbTHIql3YNNAZs/s640/_DSC8030.jpg" width="426" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rim Light, Undiffused flash</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Once again using an undiffused flash head with barn doors to create this rim lit portrait, the light was placed slightly forward and to the side of Hope and the camera lens was flagged to stop flare as the light was pointing almost straight at the camera. This lighting shows a good outline to the face and nice texture in the hair.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Single Flash, No Diffuser</td></tr>
</tbody></table> I have used a single flash with no diffuser here to try to recreate the kind of high contrast portraits made by Irving Penn and E.O Hoppe (1878-1972) in the early Twentieth century. The single small light has created real texture on the skin and the deep shadow has created some drama.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facing out 6 feet from patio door</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This is similar to the picture taken in the hall, only Hope here is standing about six feet in from the patio door on a bright sunny day. As you can see the light is quite flat with very little modelling, but it is very flattering, because the light is bouncing in off of the wall it has become a large light, even though the sun itself counts as a small light.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Single Flash, Diffuser</td></tr>
</tbody></table> For this portrait I have used a single flash with a soft box fitted, the light is placed about four feet to the right of Hope, angled down at about forty five degrees above her. This set up approximates the normal angle of the sun, this has given a bright, modern feel to picture, with gentle form and not too much texture. Here I have influenced Hope to do something, I mentioned she has a slightly lazy eye and this was her response, I know its <br />
not bearing her soul, but its a start.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Smiling</td></tr>
</tbody></table> I have included this last picture just to prove it was not all hard work for Hope, she loves it really.<br />
What I have learnt from this assignment is that portraiture is a very complicated subject and that just when I feel I have grasped all the different arguments and implications there seems to be another twist to throw things back into confusion again, and when I look back at this blog in a few days or weeks time I will think of all the things I meant to say and haven't.<br />
As for lighting portraits, I have so much to learn.<br />
One last picture, this was why Hope was so upset down at the bus stop in front of all the shoppers.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7AEKyfjJcHvgzU0NfOAg85sf2vIwsQez44stDZld8s4Ba25pUArvQuupYVhJnJMXnZPlOOFJezVTHcDE1wJ25GIUxCEJRDqv3ZHbj_Z_S5Xmez-LRAQjnUR2G9yRg-Hv2U_brB6c60g/s1600/_DSC7808.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7AEKyfjJcHvgzU0NfOAg85sf2vIwsQez44stDZld8s4Ba25pUArvQuupYVhJnJMXnZPlOOFJezVTHcDE1wJ25GIUxCEJRDqv3ZHbj_Z_S5Xmez-LRAQjnUR2G9yRg-Hv2U_brB6c60g/s640/_DSC7808.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh the Shame for a Thirteen Year Old</td></tr>
</tbody></table>References: <br />
Badger,G,2007,<i>The genius of Photography,</i>Quadrille,London.<br />
Hughes,G,1981,<i>David Baileys Book of Photography,</i>J M Dent & Sons,London.<br />
Barthes,R,1993,<i>Camera Lucida,</i>Vintage,London.<br />
Bosworth,P,2005,<i>Diane Arbus A Biography,</i>Vintage,London.<br />
Hoffman,M,1976,<i>Paul Strand Sixty Years of Photographs,</i>Aperture,New York.<br />
Keaney,M,2010,<i>Irving Penn Portraits,</i>National Portrait Gallery Publications,London.<br />
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</i>fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-57541643952758102842011-10-09T05:14:00.000-07:002011-10-09T05:14:19.979-07:00Outdoors at Night continued<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> Sorry about the break in this Blog, I pressed the wrong button. There follows some more pictures of my local Chinese takeaway.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">China Palace</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">China Palace</td></tr>
</tbody></table> I like the way this series shows the way you can work your way into a subject, from a fairly weak opening shot, to the last two which I think are pretty strong. The first with the reflection has a nice variety of angles and the second has a nice connection with the lady working behind the counter, but shows here in her environment.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Subway</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This was a sticker on a Subway shop window, I decided to use a long lens and a wide aperture to isolate the hand from the background and really boosted the colours to give a strong graphic image.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marriages Mill</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This mill was the closest thing I could find to a floodlit building locally, the building has an interesting combination of textures but the lights from the windows over power the picture.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Salvation Army</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Our local Salvation Army building has this neon cross on top so I decided to try and combine it with some light trails of the traffic passing in front of it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Railings and Light Trail</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Taking pictures at night and being able to use light trails makes ordinary scenes into something more special.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shoes Poster</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This is the sort picture I really like, you have to look twice to work out what is going on, the juxtaposition of the giant shoes and the light trails makes for an interesting image and brings to my mind the work of Walker Evans.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1n-8WZ-VEUzHZl2WoPntYiN-BAmBhoH0eA6dmAsw2q_oDciqAEUOQp_K8zDnNjxGB4gjrOYI5rwqMbjUP8dQnEZQMQ0Ggg7hFwGeGg5X_CINdGZ0KxHkFujOpBObcfBGQR4SW6CbYEWM/s1600/IMG_0025.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1n-8WZ-VEUzHZl2WoPntYiN-BAmBhoH0eA6dmAsw2q_oDciqAEUOQp_K8zDnNjxGB4gjrOYI5rwqMbjUP8dQnEZQMQ0Ggg7hFwGeGg5X_CINdGZ0KxHkFujOpBObcfBGQR4SW6CbYEWM/s640/IMG_0025.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Neon Reflection</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This is a straight forward reflected light in a puddle of the type we have all seen before.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lidls</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This image is very noisy because it was taken at a high ISO on a compact camera, but it is a nice bright, colourful image and I like the repeated stop sign.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lidls</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Most of these pictures were taken late at night so they show a deserted world, which in itself is quite interesting, because they show all the traces of a human world without the interaction of people.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Queen Bee</td></tr>
</tbody></table> I was drawn to this scene by the coloured lighting and the silhouettes of the tree branches triangulating the frame.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shopping Trollies</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This is another scene that would look completely different during the day, the shadows cast by the streetlights add the extra dimension.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lone Figure</td></tr>
</tbody></table> I love the long shadow thrown by this lone figure cast by the street lamp above, and the fact that because of the complete silhouette you have no idea of the sex of the figure or whether they are walking towards or away from you. It brings to mind the lone figure that was used by Andre Kertesz throughout his career ( Dyer,G 2005).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Self Portrait, Bus Stop</td></tr>
</tbody></table> On my way home one night I spotted this bus shelter with its poster missing and thought I could use it as a giant light box and make a silhouette, so using my cameras timer I took this self portrait.<br />
I think that this series of pictures show the huge variety of different types of image available after dark, especially now with the excellent high ISO capabilities of the new crop of cameras allowing the user to hand hold in quite dark situations allowing the kind of street photography that was only possible during daylight.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-47513207417207647322011-10-09T03:54:00.000-07:002011-10-09T03:54:05.292-07:00Outdoors at Night The aim of this exercise is to take a series of photographs at night to show the variety of effects available.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> This was one of the suggestions made in the instructions for the exercise, this exposure shows the light trails in isolation, it does not show the surroundings, so there is no context to show what they are. So I increased the exposure time so that the twilight sky showed itself.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Light Trails Longer Exposure</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Now that you can see the horizon it gives you some idea of what you are looking at.Also whilst on the subject of roads, on a long drive back from Bristol I experimented with the lights of the cars through the windscreen, needless to say my wife was driving, I used a high ISO to freeze the movement and used multi exposure to overlay the lights and make some more abstract images.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Traffic on the M25, Five Exposures</td></tr>
</tbody></table> For the image above I kept the camera on one plane so that the diagonal strings of lights as the cars negotiate the bend draw your eye across the picture.For the second of these images I took both vertical and horizontal frames.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Traffic on the M25, Five Exposures</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This picture is my own personal favourite of the two, I like the way the strong vertical lines draws your eye up the picture to the bold cross light. Overall it has quite a painterly effect and is most obviously influenced by the multi exposure images of New York at night taken by Ernst Haas.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">China Palace</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Next I took my camera out onto the streets, and using a high ISO again I tried to see what I could find hand held. This is my local Chinese takeaway, which is a subject I have often thought of photographing before because of the mirrored counter front and strong geometric pattern made by the black and white tiles.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No Diffusion</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can see because of its domed shape the object acts like a fisheye lens and shows a full 180 degrees of its surroundings. It could be used as a self portrait of the photographer, but it is not much use as a picture of the object.<br />
The next stage was to form a cone of a light diffusing that fitted around the lens of the camera and opened out to the ground to envelope the object, without appearing in shot. I decided to use grease proof paper as it was the nearest thing I could find to the tracing paper stated in the exercise instructions. Because the object is quite large I had to staple sheets of the paper together, therefore I did not end up with a seamless finish.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diffused Natural Light</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can see this is a huge improvement over the first image, this was taken using the natural light from the large window to the right, therefore the object is slightly brighter on that side. Also you can still see the camera lens poking through the centre of the paper.<br />
Next I added some photographic flash light to the image to see if I could balance the light from the window.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flash Next to Lens</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Firstly I placed the flash above next to the lens, this has given a most unsatisfactory result, you can see there is a very bright highlight right next to the lens. So then I moved the flash 30 cm from the lens.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flash 30cm from Lens</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This is slightly better, but the light coverage is not very even and there is still a hot spot.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flash 1 Metre from Side</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Here I have moved the flash to 1 metre from the side of the light tent, towards the bottom. Now the light has become much more diffuse because the light from the flash is wider because of the extra distance, so it hits more of the diffusing material, therefore the light, in effect, becomes larger.<br />
Next I moved the flash 2 metres away to see whether the light would become more even.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flash 2 Metres from Side</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can see the effect of moving the light the extra metre is minimal, the light is slightly softer, but no more even.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1 Metre Above the Camera</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The image above was made with the flash held 1 metre above the camera and I think with a slight movement to the left to balance the window light this could be the way to go. The only concern I have is the amount of fall off in light towards the edges of the object and also how would you hide the camera lens.<br />
To try to disguise the lens I have next turned the object on its side so that the reflection of the lens fall on the edge of the lid, which hides it quite well.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Light Bounced Off Ceiling</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Self Portrait, Snooted head</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can see by using such narrow beam of light a highly atmospheric effect it achieved, the light has to be very carefully positioned because it is so narrow, and quite low powered.I found it best to use the light to pick out the edges and texture of the subject by angling it from above and behind, this has produced a strong chiaroscuro effect.fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-75567224625592685372011-09-15T12:47:00.000-07:002011-09-15T12:47:33.048-07:00Contrast & Shadow Fill I have set up a very simple still life for this exercise to see the effects of diffusion and different types of reflectors as a fill light. The first image is taken without any diffusion or fill light.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No Diffusion or Fill</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can there are deep hard shadows and quite hard highlights, although I still quite like the image, it reminds me of a still life by Andre Kertesz. The hard shadows give the picture a certain amount of dynamism.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diffused</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The picture above has a diffuser over the light, and as you can see the shadows are much lighter and softer. The highlights are just as bright, but they are softer edged. The contrast across the vase is quite strong, so I am now going to place a reflector opposite the light to produce some fill light.<br />
To start I am using a plain white card, 1 metre away from the subject.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Card, 1 Metre</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can see the reflector has had very little effect, the side of the vase has been lightened ever so slightly. For the next example I have moved the same white reflector closer, to 0.5 metre from the subject.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Reflector, 0.5 metre</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Moving the reflector closer has had more of an effect, the side of the vase is lightened significantly and evenly. Also the shadows under the objects have been lightened, so the contrast across the whole image has been lessened.<br />
Next I have covered the card with the dull side of a sheet of tin foil.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tin Foil, Dull Side</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can see the tin foil has created a hard highlight on the shadow side of the vase. This is because the silver foil will produce a direct reflection of the light, whereas the previous white card reflector will always produce diffuse reflections ( Hunter,F.Biver,S.Fuqua,P, 2007 ). I find the hard highlight distracting and I do not think it suits this particular picture.<br />
Now I have turned the foil over so that the shinier side is facing the subject.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Foil Shiny Side</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you would expect this has produced an even harder and brighter highlight.For the final version of the picture I have crumpled the foil and then flattened it out again.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crumpled Foil</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This has produced an almost identical effect to the white reflector at 0.5 metre, this is because by crumpling the foil we have made it reflect the light in many directions, thereby making it a diffuse reflector.<br />
This exercise shows that reflectors are very useful as fill lights, but you have to be careful to match the reflector to the subject. For this subject I found that a diffuse reflector suited the subject best because all of the objects have a matt finish, so a hard highlight does not look right.<br />
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Ref; Hunter,F,Biver,S,Fuqua,P,2007, Light, Science & Magic,Elsevier,Oxford.fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-51771615935070433312011-09-11T13:01:00.000-07:002011-09-11T13:01:13.533-07:00The Lighting Angle I have chosen a small figurine for this exercise because has lots of folds and small details, which should show the effects of the changes in lighting angle well. The first four photographs are taken with the light at the same level as the subject.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Light In Front</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The light is hitting the front of the subject and shows the outline of the figure very well, but there is very little modelling.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side Light</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The side light shows the folds on the front of the figure very well, but the contrast across the width is too great and the detail is lost on the side away from the light.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Light Side & Behind</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This side and rear light gives a nice edge light, but there is no detail on the front of the figure. It does bring out the texture of the linen really well<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Light Directly Behind</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The light behind the figure shows the outline with a complete silhouette.<br />
The next four images are taken with the light angled down at 45 degrees and follow the same pattern as the first four.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front Light, 45 Degrees</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This shows the outline really well and has slightly more texture than the straight ahead version.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side Light, 45 Degrees</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This lighting shows the form of the subject very well, the contrast across the figure is not too great, it could just do with a little fill light on the left side. Overall the figure has good texture and outline.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side Light, Rear 45 Degrees</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This image has a nice side light with some light spilling onto the front of the figure, the dark side of the subject is lost in the background.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rear Light, 45 Degrees</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This is not a complete silhouette because some light is bouncing up from the cloth, and there are some interesting highlights around the edges of the figure.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Light Directly Above</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This image has a nice balance of detail and outline, although some of the shadows are a bit dark and the light is fading towards the bottom.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above and Slightly Behind</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This image has a nice outline at the top with a small amount of detail on the hands and arms.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above and In front </td></tr>
</tbody></table> This picture with the light above and in front has a lovely balance of out line and detail, the contrast is nicely controlled, this type of lighting is widely used in fashion and beauty photography as it is very flattering if you are young with good bone structure.<br />
There are two images here which show good form and outline, the first is the one directly above and the second is the side lit, 45 degree version, but I do feel the second needs some fill light on the left to reduce the contrast.fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-71271977292283193042011-09-11T11:59:00.000-07:002011-09-11T11:59:23.709-07:00Softening the Light This is a straight forward exercise to see how diffusing the light used when taking a photograph affects the image. I used a flash head with a reflector and then with a soft box, this meant that the first light is a small hard light and the second is a large soft light.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No Diffusion</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The above image has no diffusion and it is evident that the shadows are very hard edged and very dark with a complete loss of any detail. The garlic has lost any texture on its right side and there is a hard highlight on the inside of the bowl, and on the red onion. These two factors together mean that this picture has a very high contrast.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diffused</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This is the diffused version, and apart from a dark triangle between the red onion and the bowl, the shadows are much softer edged and are lighter, managing to retain their detail. The highlights are also softer edged and not suffering from any burn out, the image generally has lower contrast than the undiffused version, but it still has a full range of tones.<br />
In the still life used the diffused version is obviously better, but that that does not mean that it will suit all applications, you must still choose the correct lighting for each subject.fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-22324279460564020962011-09-11T02:40:00.000-07:002011-09-11T02:40:39.221-07:00Cloudy Weather & Rain pt 2 All of the following pictures were taken under the sort of flat cloudy skies that are so common in Britain for much of the time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Rose</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can see the first image is a close up of a red rose, the soft even light of the clouded over sun has the effect of a giant soft box, the lack of strong contrast allows you to see deep into the flower and the low light level has increased the saturation of the red. The only problem with this image us that because of the low light level I had to increase the camera ISO level and still have the aperture quite wide, therefore the effect is softer than I would have liked.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ivy</td></tr>
</tbody></table> In the picture of Ivy above, once again it is evident that the soft even light has allowed for a high level of detail, even in the shadow areas. There is also no glare on the leaves, which is a common fault with plant shots taken in sunny conditions, the texture of the leaves is fully formed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green Tomatoes</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Obviously the tomatoes above have a very glossy surface, but the clouded light has proved perfect for allowing enough shine to add form to the tomatoes and show that they are glossy without burnt out highlights. This light has also allowed a high level of detail to be shown in the hairy plant stems. Overall the light has helped to produce quite a sensuous picture.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anenome</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The only problem with cloudy days is that they also tend to be windy, therefore capturing delicate images such the Anemone above, blowing about on the end of its stem can be trying. But I think the results speak for themselves, this light is perfect for this type low contrast subject as you get very light shadows which compliment the delicate curves of the petals.<br />
This exercise has proved that for a lot of subjects, where you do not want to include any of the sky, cloudy days can provide the perfect light, although the low light levels can be a problem, especially if the subject has any movement.<br />
If it is sunny you can try to achieve the same effect by putting a diffuser between your subject and the sun, as long as your subject is small enough or you can get a big enough diffuser.fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-39888225211408076002011-09-05T12:59:00.000-07:002011-09-05T12:59:23.047-07:00Cloudy Weather & Rain pt 1 I was drawn to the first subject for this exercise by the complimentary colours of blue and orange, and the dynamism caused by the strong diagonal shadows.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Building in Sun</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can see it is a strong graphic image with bold colours and texture brought to life by the strong, hard light. The light is colourless because it is full sunlight during the middle part of the day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Building Under Cloud</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This second version taken under a cloudy sky has got a definite cool tone, the texture of the building and container have almost been lost without the strong light, the whole image is a full two stops darker.Without the strong raking shadows and deep blue sky the image has lost its dynamic image, and has become much more of a deadpan style of picture.<br />
Next I decided to try a portrait, the light was very strong so my model had to look away from the sun.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portrait In Sun</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can see even though the model has looked away from the sun, she still cannot fully open her eyes, so the portrait is unflattering.There are hard shadows across the face and deep shadows across the eyes leaving them looking dead.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portrait Under Cloud</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Under cloud the light for portraits is much better, the model can fully open her eyes and the soft shadows are much kinder to the gentle curves of her face. The eyes are fully lit, but there is a very slight blue tone to the overall image, although I do not find it too intrusive. Once again there was a full two stops difference in exposure.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Succulents in Sun</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The colours of the succulents above are very strong, but as I did not use a polariser there is a lot of glare on the leaves. The shadows are very deep so that some parts of the plants are completely lost in darkness.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Succulents Under Cloud</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The soft light under cloud means that because of the lower contrast no detail is lost to shadow or glare. The colours are more muted and cool and there is a full five stops difference in exposure.<br />
Even with these few examples it becomes obvious that you have to match the light to the subject, soft light for delicate subjects and hard light for strong graphic images.<br />
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fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-58533781416639746032011-09-04T08:43:00.000-07:002011-09-04T08:43:29.250-07:00Variety with a Low Sun For this exercise I have chosen this thistle type plant that I found growing in a field, the location was fairly open so I knew that I would be able to keep shooting until the sun was almost completely set. I felt that the shape of the seed heads would be good to show the effects of back and edge lighting.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frontal Lighting</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can see from the picture above the low sun gives a nice warm tone to the image, but the head on fall of the light makes the picture appear quite flat, there are very few shadows to help form the shape of the plant.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side Lighting</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The side lighting in the picture above is better, it has helped to separate the plant from the dark background and has shown the form of the stalks, although the seed heads still look a bit flat, they do not have any real roundness.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back Lighting</td></tr>
</tbody></table> With the sun hidden behind the body of the plant I have achieved a very strong silhouette of the subject which relies totally on shape with no sense of form at all. Also by placing the bottom of the plant against a dark background I have produced a good rim light.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edge Lighting</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The edge lighting was quite difficult to achieve because I could not move the plant and I wanted to show the effect against a dark background. I think the final effect is pretty successful, this type of lighting has separated the plant from the background and has given substantial form to the whole plant. As the sun was at this point almost set, there are no hard shadows and the low angle of the light has shown some of the translucence in the leaves.<br />
I really enjoyed this exercise, even though it did mean rolling on the ground in some fairly questionable substances, and it has taught me some valuable skills that I hope to use again in the very near future.<br />
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fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-55114288533235800482011-08-29T05:11:00.000-07:002011-08-29T05:11:36.792-07:00Light Through the Day For this exercise I have set my camera in one position, and set it in aperture priority, on a timer so that it takes one frame every hour throughout the day, so that I can see how the sun moving across the sky affects the landscape. I have chosen a view which includes buildings and vegetation so that I can see how the moving light will affect each component of the landscape.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5A.M , 30 secs at f11</td></tr>
</tbody></table> In this first image taken at 5a.m you can see it is still completely dark with absolutely no light in the sky at all, hence the extremely long 30 second exposure.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6 A.M, 8 secs at f/11</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can see at 6a.m there is now light in the sky, but the sun is still below the hill in the background, hence there are no shadows and the whole picture seems rather flat with a very cool tone, the exposure is still very long, at 8 seconds.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7 A.M, 1/20 sec at f/11</td></tr>
</tbody></table> At 7a.m the exposure is much shorter at 1/20 sec, the sun has now risen above the hills and is lighting the tops of the trees. The building is still in shade, the overall tone is still cool, and the image is still quite flat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8 A.M, 1/180 sec at f/11</td></tr>
</tbody></table> It is hard to say what this picture would look like, as it appears that a cloud is shading this part of the scene, although it looks as though the sun is already fairly high.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9 A.M, 1/250 sec at f/11</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The sun is now giving some form to the landscape, in quite general terms,is it is showing there is a dip in front of the building or is that the shadow of the building.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10 A.M, 1/250 sec at f/11</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This the first point at which the scene appears fully lit, although I think the front of the building is just reflected light. The trees now appear fully formed and the shadows are not too hard.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11 A.M, 1/250 sec at f/11</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The sun is now high in the sky, the shadows are now directly under the trees and are now quite dark. The sun is still not directly lighting the front of the building.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Midday, 1/180 sec at f/11</td></tr>
</tbody></table> It is now midday and the sun is directly above, it is just striking the blinds on the front of the building, so we can expect the sun to set to the right of the scene. The light is now quite hard and colourless.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1 P.M, 1/125 sec at f/11</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As we can see more light is now striking the front of the building with what appears to be a hard white light, the shadows are already beginning to lengthen under the trees.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2 P.M, 1/125 sec at f/11</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The light seems ever so slightly warmer in this picture and there is a touch of colour in the sky.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3 P.M, 1/180 sec at f/11</td></tr>
</tbody></table> There is now a huge change from the previous picture, the sky is now blue and the light is definitely warmer, the shadows under the trees are showing the form of the terracing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4 P.M, 1/180 sec at f/11</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The light is warmer still, and the shadows have further lengthened, these pictures are a vast improvement over the ones taken in the morning.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5P.M, 1/30 sec at f/11</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The sun has now started to disappear behind the hills facing the building and they are casting a shadow across the bottom of the picture. The light intensity has now dropped, the exposure time has dropped to 1/30 sec, the light is also much warmer and the colour is draining from the sky.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6 P.M, 6 secs at f/11</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The sun has now left the scene and it now almost completely resembles the picture taken at 7 a.m, there are no shadows and the exposure has lengthened to 6 secs.<br />
This exercise shows that throughout the day there is a very small window when the light is right in any given scene, the best picture in this sequence was taken at 4 p.m. At this time the light had its best colour, the scene was completely lit with a low raking light which helps to give form to the components of the landscape.<br />
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fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-18761041182348999012011-08-29T03:17:00.000-07:002011-08-29T03:17:27.615-07:00Judging Colour Temperature Part 2 Here we are going to look at how changing white balance settings 'in camera' and after in processing software affects the colour temperature of the images. The first image below was taken in full mid day sun, and therefore its white balance is neutral and needs no adjustment as the cameras white balance was set to daylight, but it is dreadful light for portrait photography.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu98ibllhfZRLLNbGLihfAmf2s1RvqQdPbHpWRTnDl0Q0uQAV1yMcGXN1el5G662MnVqKdypKqpA64B3T0gRS0EhREBAbMZN8kEb4LPjzLgubZ1WtISmhsvddq-dzrhppGUx6CNhYCNL4/s1600/_DSC7014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu98ibllhfZRLLNbGLihfAmf2s1RvqQdPbHpWRTnDl0Q0uQAV1yMcGXN1el5G662MnVqKdypKqpA64B3T0gRS0EhREBAbMZN8kEb4LPjzLgubZ1WtISmhsvddq-dzrhppGUx6CNhYCNL4/s400/_DSC7014.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mid Day Sun, WB Daylight</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can see because of the strong sunlight there are very strong shadows across the face, to make a decent portrait in this light you would either have to place the sun behind the subject or use flash or reflectors to fill in the shadows.<br />
The next image was taken in midday shade and gives a much better light for portraits, the white balance was still set to daylight and therefore it has a bluish colour caste.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Midday Shade, WB Daylight</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The next image is the same picture, but I have corrected the white balance by using the shade setting in Lightroom. This has given the picture a much more pleasant warm tone which suits the subject much better.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Midday Shade, WB Corrected</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can see it has given my wife back her tan, before settling on the shade setting in Lightroom I also tried the eyedropper tool on her white T shirt, but I felt it did not have enough effect.<br />
Next is another portrait taken in early evening which because of the lack of blue light has a nice warm tone which suits the subject well, after it is the same image corrected using the eyedropper tool.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evening Light, WB Daylight</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixAOHvP4vc1ptqNiMURloGS3PDI5PqQWoHrROkARsy0hmHEgDY1FCg9v1UwVu0_HuLqxg2-Ew3jFXjzv4dAJ3WU8GdwPxK5a55QCOE_cFuzwx-H-5jzfyT0lzLHXjS8NSiOsXOZPNUG54/s1600/_DSC7016-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixAOHvP4vc1ptqNiMURloGS3PDI5PqQWoHrROkARsy0hmHEgDY1FCg9v1UwVu0_HuLqxg2-Ew3jFXjzv4dAJ3WU8GdwPxK5a55QCOE_cFuzwx-H-5jzfyT0lzLHXjS8NSiOsXOZPNUG54/s400/_DSC7016-2.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evening Light, WB Corrected</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can see the difference in minimal and I think I prefer the slightly warmer tone of the uncorrected picture.<br />
The portrait below was taken in full midday sun with the cameras white balance set to daylight and so should be neutral.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full Midday Sun, WB Daylight</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As we can see there is no colour caste but it suffers the same fate as the earlier midday portrait.<br />
The next image was taken in midday shade with cameras white balance now set to shade.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Midday Shade, WB Shade<br />
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</tbody></table> As you can see this has removed the cool blue caste of the earlier shade portrait, but it has not had has great an effect as the shade setting in Lightroom. But I think because of the younger subject this outcome is the best, also personally I do not like pictures that are too warm, although I think it was Terry O,Neill who said that he had never had any of his clients complain that his pictures were " too f**ing warm".<br />
The last picture was taken in quite warm evening light with the cameras white balance set to auto.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Warm Evening Light, WB Auto</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Using the auto white balance setting has not produced as warm toned an image as the picture of my wife above with the camera set to daylight, although this was the following evening with a much' redder' light.<br />
As we can see from this exercise there are many different ways of affecting white balance and they all have varying results, much is down to personal taste and the brief you have been set.<br />
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fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-32295423583064873552011-08-24T13:00:00.000-07:002011-08-24T13:00:08.554-07:00Judging Colour Temperature Part 1 For this exercise I had to take three pictures of the same subject under different lighting conditions, the first picture was taken in full sun at mid-day, the second was taken at the same time but in shade and the third was taken in evening sunlight. The idea of the exercise is to see if the difference in colour temperature is evident in the pictures, the mid-day light should be colourless, the shade should be blueish from the reflected light from the sky and the evening picture should be more red.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full Mid-Day Sun</td></tr>
</tbody></table> In this series of pictures I have asked my wife to wear a white t-shirt in the hope that it would make any difference in colour temperature more obvious. As you can see in the picture above in full sun there is no colour caste in the image because the mid-day light has the full spectrum of colours that make up white light.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mid -Day shade</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This picture was taken at the same time as the one above but in the shade, as you can see especially in the t shirt there is a definite cool tone. This is because, out of direct sunlight, the only light to reach the subject is reflected from the blue sky above.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evening Light</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you would expect in the evening the light has a definite warm tone, this is because as the sun gets lower to the horizon the blue part of the spectrum is filtered out by the increased amount of the atmosphere that the light has to travel through.<br />
One point to make is that although I have written about warm and cool tones, when it comes to colour temperatures it is the opposite to what you would imagine, blue light has the higher colour temperature and red the lower.<br />
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fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-70835648932416999182011-08-23T13:10:00.000-07:002011-08-23T13:10:33.175-07:00Measuring Exposure part 2 For this exercise I had to take a series of exposures based around the exposure that my cameras meter deemed correct and then decide which exposure I prefer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under Exposed by 1 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under Exposed by 1/2 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Correct Exposure </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over Exposed by 1/2 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over Exposed by 1 Stop</td></tr>
</tbody></table> In the above set of images of a Hydrangea flower the under exposed pictures are definitely too dark, the so called correct exposure has nice colour saturation, but is still a little to dark. I feel the 1/2 stop over exposed has just the right amount of brightness and saturation, any more exposure and the flower starts to lose texture.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under Exposed by 1 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under Exposed by 1/2 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Correct Exposure</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over Exposed 1/2 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over Exposed by 1 Stop</td></tr>
</tbody></table> In the series above although the under exposed pictures have greater saturation I feel that the higher exposure images suit the style of shallow depth of field picture. The flower centre is also much more colourful and the lighter petals draw your eye from the outside of the frame towards it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under Exposed by 1 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under Exposed by 1/2 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Correct Exposure</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigseVmpPduKSSm3fo0SLelJlE171z9-3CiUiHkQrzz47zp8q1c5CuhhLrJMLF6bd_O3k6_zShrwj7Ojm45hkKnTj6Hsp_1zXL6bteTbgo8egJ50O15sgvTcEa_D1BXfFfqq3tztYYf9XA/s1600/_DSC7006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigseVmpPduKSSm3fo0SLelJlE171z9-3CiUiHkQrzz47zp8q1c5CuhhLrJMLF6bd_O3k6_zShrwj7Ojm45hkKnTj6Hsp_1zXL6bteTbgo8egJ50O15sgvTcEa_D1BXfFfqq3tztYYf9XA/s400/_DSC7006.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over Exposed by 1/2 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMCcdkMMoBLCJfhIR5NTMxqSI7pHlqZDQqZPAXmUJvaP65rzeZt4XpWHixwvTvSBaCUz9Q_XxBGZ36kMKVBZ4MByNTnlevzkw-wrRhfcD-g3mJXwGzDTzLYi9OcpHifxMeCrGVW2w3dH0/s1600/_DSC7007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMCcdkMMoBLCJfhIR5NTMxqSI7pHlqZDQqZPAXmUJvaP65rzeZt4XpWHixwvTvSBaCUz9Q_XxBGZ36kMKVBZ4MByNTnlevzkw-wrRhfcD-g3mJXwGzDTzLYi9OcpHifxMeCrGVW2w3dH0/s400/_DSC7007.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over Exposed by 1 Stop</td></tr>
</tbody></table> In this set of portrait photographs the under exposed images are too dark and the 1 stop over exposed is too light and has started to lose detail in the skin. The correct exposure has nice skin texture and the 1/2 stop over exposed has a good brightness to it, and because of this it is my favourite of the five exposures.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn_jCyFeEHrb4X0aVtUGKJ61qYYNUr_Ns3o1oHrd2IJAQ2zGFihmNGAKs7WFsJ6fSMPA9OV5SB4FaK0Ha4DmBCIq5awQzkCvLOTr9rik49sQsVw6yKXl7Wscp7Ogye-DLlmGFmdRZqqp4/s1600/P1000303.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn_jCyFeEHrb4X0aVtUGKJ61qYYNUr_Ns3o1oHrd2IJAQ2zGFihmNGAKs7WFsJ6fSMPA9OV5SB4FaK0Ha4DmBCIq5awQzkCvLOTr9rik49sQsVw6yKXl7Wscp7Ogye-DLlmGFmdRZqqp4/s400/P1000303.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under Exposed by 1 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgeAnVgcY0NKD03pYSM73Op5yk5mm3XhsK1ULPvFVewTvAeoU1wuKIu86Mr5gtVUDmgPXjTMLNpa341fs90Y3SyOy3682VcP32IYHL2FSSc9M0447WnbLi-UHuFAUH5PzZYNvkdyeCju0/s1600/P1000304.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgeAnVgcY0NKD03pYSM73Op5yk5mm3XhsK1ULPvFVewTvAeoU1wuKIu86Mr5gtVUDmgPXjTMLNpa341fs90Y3SyOy3682VcP32IYHL2FSSc9M0447WnbLi-UHuFAUH5PzZYNvkdyeCju0/s400/P1000304.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under Exposed by 1/2 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRsD7-5Z9IHYoMHoPtB2hBLgAXS4egVZyZeFd0T_MIroiiCZ-44kqhOsXARY5HkFLX9ND8giNvl0RwDnUFn80QUMIndNkEMt3wmuvsR-3xtJ3D_Yzpoxx6L-IZIne_i9nYD5AkJHWE3HE/s1600/P1000305.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRsD7-5Z9IHYoMHoPtB2hBLgAXS4egVZyZeFd0T_MIroiiCZ-44kqhOsXARY5HkFLX9ND8giNvl0RwDnUFn80QUMIndNkEMt3wmuvsR-3xtJ3D_Yzpoxx6L-IZIne_i9nYD5AkJHWE3HE/s400/P1000305.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Correct Exposure</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-NygPltVTl_x1e3kA3WRBu7nk_J4kNlji9yep69wEIulwiBcPqczu9-vzbjf4rlNlqYn6nffLH7oioUWvmGWuP51TA8rlSxKmeFCJrYdnNXNI0k8CcyCfsQfFun3BjXhb4OXs_tuPlA/s1600/P1000306.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-NygPltVTl_x1e3kA3WRBu7nk_J4kNlji9yep69wEIulwiBcPqczu9-vzbjf4rlNlqYn6nffLH7oioUWvmGWuP51TA8rlSxKmeFCJrYdnNXNI0k8CcyCfsQfFun3BjXhb4OXs_tuPlA/s400/P1000306.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over Exposed by 1/2 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7npnuE82C8iu5Q4y_tWSOsmLXaHp3Xe3dc-E5Xlyt1oMn-2guhqNEHLn0EvZTPRHLyXZ7gJMEgGPHsFUfawmyXdufzJN_eFQggFcB3aSujxf8XQVOCGD5OjrkKez8V2Qez6HxZ3wMsrk/s1600/P1000307.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7npnuE82C8iu5Q4y_tWSOsmLXaHp3Xe3dc-E5Xlyt1oMn-2guhqNEHLn0EvZTPRHLyXZ7gJMEgGPHsFUfawmyXdufzJN_eFQggFcB3aSujxf8XQVOCGD5OjrkKez8V2Qez6HxZ3wMsrk/s400/P1000307.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over Exposed by 1 Stop</td></tr>
</tbody></table> As you can probably tell from the series above I am no landscape photographer, the 1 stop under exposed is too dark and has lost detail in the trees. The over exposed images suffer from burnt out and loss of detail in the lightest areas. Of the two pictures left I prefer the extra saturation of the slightly under exposed one.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under Exposed by 1 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under Exposed by 1/2 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyxYwtf_cQT49CHd8SqnVuWnIt6G_0jxM4kOgbwQLFovnrN32c0b3MV7NIz_qeK516vYhlwqjrrGJmmZAkr9Q3XGkTLG0_bcmIUmX_xcNvLGRdXv661x4x2kJj-68WsReazWLSSzSVvrI/s1600/P1000310.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyxYwtf_cQT49CHd8SqnVuWnIt6G_0jxM4kOgbwQLFovnrN32c0b3MV7NIz_qeK516vYhlwqjrrGJmmZAkr9Q3XGkTLG0_bcmIUmX_xcNvLGRdXv661x4x2kJj-68WsReazWLSSzSVvrI/s400/P1000310.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Correct Exposure</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLvK7NquOPmeyo7jtiOSBbe22VdWT-1Aexg_QvzraxcXQxSGv2BSV0NyuB3MZ-23CpTSQqND_Al8mNa76He0cn2GNGf-NBRBv5a0MzYFLOjuPmSlbj17lpsxZMI4gvH7VriNS_X5YdKig/s1600/P1000311.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLvK7NquOPmeyo7jtiOSBbe22VdWT-1Aexg_QvzraxcXQxSGv2BSV0NyuB3MZ-23CpTSQqND_Al8mNa76He0cn2GNGf-NBRBv5a0MzYFLOjuPmSlbj17lpsxZMI4gvH7VriNS_X5YdKig/s400/P1000311.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over Exposed by 1/2 Stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over Exposed by 1 Stop</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The three lighter exposures of the tree above suffer from major burn out and loss of detail in the sky. Of the two under exposed pictures I prefer the almost complete silhouette of the full stop under exposure.<br />
I think this exercise has been very interesting, in that, it shows there is no correct exposure for any subject, a lot is down to personal taste and what the original artistic intention was when the picture was taken.<br />
Deciding how I want the final picture to look at the moment of taking, exposure wise, and not leaving it to my cameras meter is obviously a skill I am going to work hard at to make it second nature.<br />
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fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-89259422112668832052011-08-17T07:17:00.000-07:002011-08-17T07:17:38.582-07:00Measuring Exposure part 1 For this exercise I have tried to find subjects that are predominately light or dark to see how much exposure compensation I will have to apply to obtain a true representation of the object in front of the camera.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Flower, + 1 Stop Compensation</td></tr>
</tbody></table> I have added + 1 stop of exposure compensation to the above image, this was enough to give me a true white on the petals, any more than this and I began to lose detail in the white areas.<br />
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</tbody></table> Mainly consisting of black and grey this image had to be under exposed by a full 2 stops to give a true representation.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Keyboard, + 1 Stop</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This image has + 1 stop of compensation, above this the bright edges of the keys began to burn out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I Pod, - 1.3 Stops</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This picture was taken outside under an overcast sky, which has provided the perfect light for this type of image. I have under exposed by 1.3 stops to get a nice deep black on the central dial.<br />
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</tbody></table> The above image is different from the proceeding pictures in that I have under exposed it by 1 stop for artistic reasons. I achieved a correct exposure without compensation, but the image was a bit flat, by under exposing, the interior of the plant has gone into shadow and the highlighted edges of the leaves are brought to the fore. The effect of this is to give the picture some depth and allows the rhythms of the leaves edges to show.<br />
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fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-57201118580661834892011-07-25T07:06:00.000-07:002011-07-25T07:38:26.640-07:00Assignment 3, Colour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>For this assignment I have decided to make a study of still life photography throughout its history. Still life has always appealed to me as it gives you the opportunity to use your imagination and be truly creative, it does not get much press these days, if you pick up any photography magazine you will find tips on all other type of photography, but not still life.<br />
I thought it would be interesting to apply the colour relationships required for this assignment to styles of still life photography that were originally in black and white, interesting it was, but also quite difficult. As Henri Cartier-Bresson stated it is difficult enough to organise form in photography " imagine having to think about colour on top of all this," cited by G.Dyer 2005.<br />
I found that when working in early styles of still life photography the fact of using colour tended to modernise the image because we are used to seeing colour images. By using colour as the starting point of each image brought a new dimension to the final images, as Paul Outerbridge said " I think that still life presents perhaps the greatest possibilities for purely creative work in colour photography, for to put life into still life, into inanimate objects, to create new rhythms and patterns requires imagination." cited P. Martineau 2010.<br />
The first still life photograph was made before photography was even announced in 1839 in Paris and London in 1839, the photograph was <i>The Set Table </i>by Nicephore Niepce, ( 1765-1833) and shows a table laid out for a simple supper and reminds us of laid tables in paintings, such as the Last supper ( Martineau,P 2010). Because of the long exposure times required in early photography still life became a very popular subject and largely followed the traditions set by still life painting, and was indeed used as a teaching aid for painters.<br />
One of the most successful of these early photographers was Roger Fenton (1818-1869) who during a short photographic career of just eleven years (1851-1862) manged to fit in war, landscape, portraits and still life. His still life work followed the previous art tradition and tended to either be hunting scenes or exotic scenes of great abundance for the gentry of the time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poppies and Buddleah, Contrasting Colours</td></tr>
</tbody></table> My first image,above, looks at first sight quite modern because of its high key tone and bright colours, but its structure with its swathed cloth and arch naturalism is pure nineteenth century. I have included the dead poppy as a symbol of<i> vanitas,</i> a warning against vanity, we all wilt in the end, which was a common feature of still life images of the time, carrying on the symbolic traditions from painting.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Asian Ingredients, Accent</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This image I admit looks like an advert for an Indian restaurant but it echoes Fentons' images of exotic abundance and the triangular composition evident in many of his images, such as <i>Still Life with Fruit and Decanter,</i>(1860) which helped give them a sense of depth and movement.<br />
As photographic technology improved during the 1870s and 1880s and exposure times became shorter the popularity of still lifes began to wane, cameras became smaller and lighter so photographers could venture out of the studio.Also the development of paper negatives meant that copies could be made, so photographic images lost their exclusivity, the gentry could no longer use them to ' show off '.<br />
Toward the end of the nineteenth century groups such as the Linked Ring in Great Britain and the Photo Secession in America began to push for photography to be recognized as an art form in its own right, and by the beginning of the twentieth century photographers such as Edward Steichen (1879-1973) and George H Seeley (1880-1955) had returned to still life as a subject. Using soft focus lenses and various darkroom techniques they produced works that were as painterly as possible and tied to attain in overall effect, a feeling of the subject. They were actually reflecting a statement made by Sir William Newton in 1853 to the Photographic Society that he favoured a " broad and general effect" and that "the object is better obtained by the whole subject being a little out of focus".( Clarke,G 1997) We can see this Pictorialist effect in Seeleys' early colour photograph <i>Still Life of Vase with Peacock Feather, Laquered Box and Paint Brushes, </i>1914, the picture is barely there, everything is muted, there is very little hard detail, the composition is very flat in keeping with the Japonisme style that was popular at the time.<br />
I have taken as the inspiration for my next picture an image by Baron Adolph De Meyer (1868-1946), <i>Hydrangea</i>, 1908 pictures a cut flower in a glass suffused with light, just a mere impression.( Jeffrey,I 1997)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue Daisy, Accent</td></tr>
</tbody></table> By using natural light and a wide aperture I have managed to a nicely diffuse, soft effect for the vase in pictorialist style, whilst leaving the flower sharp as a point of focus as the accent.<br />
As the world of painting changed at the beginning of the twentieth century with the work of artists such as Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse and Mondrian becoming more widely known, so photography started to become more experimental and finally began to find its own language. Still life became an important tool in refining this new language, this new way of 'seeing'.<br />
Paul Strand (1890-1976) made abstract still life photographs for a short period between 1914 and 1916 to try to see what photographies answer might be to the new modern style of painting, as he explains he used " the simplest of subject matter, or maybe object matter would be a better term in this case- such as kitchen bowls, cups, plates, pieces of fruit, a table, a chair, the railing of the porch, the shadows of the railing of the porch- things as simple as that were my material for making experiments to find out what an abstract photograph might be," cited Hoffman, M (1976). From these abstract still lifes Strand learnt to apply these new rules to his other work, that there must be a unity about the picture, like painters of the time the new modernist photographers were learning to use the surface of the print as the subject rather than as a window to look through.( Hoffman, M. 1976 )<br />
By the late 1920s Edward Weston (1886-1958) had also started to make his famous still lifes of shells and vegetables, but also found still lifes such as toilets and rocks, Weston was generally interested in form and the way light shaped it, his images tend to be of single items rather the interplay of those items as explored by Strand.(Pitts,T. 2008)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Echinops, Similar Colours</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orchid, Complimentary Colours</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Both of the above images have Westons' approach, they are both about the form of the subject and show his concern with the utmost clarity in his images.<br />
Also working on still life at this time was Andre Kertesz (1894-1985) whilst he was living in Paris he rubbed shoulders with many of the great modern artists of the time and like Strand he began to make the same discoveries. He shot many of his pictures from unusual angles so that the shapes of the objects and the strong shadows used used create dynamic movement across face of the image, Kertesz avoided frontal compositions which he felt had a more documentary bias.(Naef, W. 1994) Kerteszs' photographs were deeply personal to him as he says " The camera is my tool. Through it I give reason to all around me." cited Sontag,S 1977, in his image <i>Melancholic Tulip, </i>1939 we see a self portrait of the artist as a wilted tulip drooping to the ground, this was made when Kertesz was having a particularly tough time whilst living in New York.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Puzzle, Accent</td></tr>
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</tbody></table> In both of the above images I have tried to use triangular compositions across the face of the picture to add some dynamism, I think it it more successful in the puzzle picture because I have used more of a Kertesz style shooting angle.<br />
During the 1930s Paul Outerbridge(1896-1958) managed to grasp the technicalities of the three colour carbro transfer printing process and became a highly successful commercial photographer, in his free time he produced highly developed works such as <i>Kandinsky,</i> 1937, obviously relating to the famous Russian abstract artist, creating a colour abstract composition from household objects, managing to balance colour and form in a way that Bresson thought would be too difficult.<br />
The second world war proved to be a low point for still life photography, but when it ended there was a huge demand for commercial photography. At the forefront of this field was Irving Penn (1917-2009), he was highly successful and produced clear well defined pictures for food, and fashion goods, bit also had exhibitions of cigarette butts, animal bones and rubbish he found in the gutter. His pictures can be quite difficult to look at, he strips things to their component parts and leaves them bare.(Szarkowski,J 2000)<br />
One of the images I have produced is a pastiche of a Penn picture <i>Cholesterol's Revenge,</i>1994, I think it can be instructive sometimes to try to reproduce another artists work to uncover the techniques they used.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steak and Eggs, Contrasting Colours</td></tr>
</tbody></table><i> </i>The following images are also influenced by Penn, I must admit that before I started to research still life photography I had only known Irving Penn as a portrait photographer after seeing his exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2010, which did not make much of an impression on me. On seeing his still life work I was quite shocked at how visceral some of them are,and how inventive.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dismantled Poppy, Similar Colours</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Watermelon, Strawberries, Complimentary Colours</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Liqueurs, Similar Colours</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beans & Fish Fingers, Complimentary Colours</td></tr>
</tbody></table> I think this final image is interesting because it could be a set up shot by Irving Penn, but it could also be a found still life by someone like Martin Parr( b.1952).<br />
Another pastiche I have made is of the images by Jan Groover (b.1943), I have long admired her pictures of kitchen utensils and the way the objects seem to defy gravity. In using utensils as her subject she is recalling those first abstract attempts by Strand and Kertesz (Rumsey,D 2011), I have used red and green filters to fit in with the assignment brief, getting the composition to work was deceptively difficult.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pots and Pans, Complimentary Colours</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Another influential post war still life photographer is Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) who I have discussed earlier on my blog, in some of his flower photographs he used graphic backgrounds so that they become part of the image plane.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crocsima Lucifer, Contrasting Colours</td></tr>
</tbody></table> In this the shapes and colours unify the image, it is not just a flower against a background, the diagonal of the flower is held in place by the blue shapes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yellow Daisy, Lavender, Accent</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The above image is a simple found still life.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lemon and Lime, Similar Colours</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The picture above seems to bring us full circle because the initial inspiration for it came whilst I was looking at paintings by Cezanne, I think it was the folds in the linen that set me off. It has a minimalist style and the absence of any obvious humanity seems to imbue the fruit with their own life.<br />
Although still life photography does not seem popular among amateur photographers it appears to be thriving in the art community, with many conceptual artists like Gabriel Orozco (b.1962) using still life as a record of, their work, found still life and in making photography part of the artistic act.(Cotton,C 2009)<br />
I have found my research into still life photography compelling and surprising, I have discovered that quite often the simplest looking compositions are the most difficult to achieve and that choice of colours can make or break a picture.<br />
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References : Dyer,G,2005, <i>The Ongoing Moment.</i>Abacus.London.<br />
Martineau,P,2010, <i>Still Life in Photography,</i>Getty Publications,Los Angeles.<br />
Clarke,G,1997,<i>The Photograph,</i>Oxford University Press, Oxford.<br />
Jeffrey,I,1997,<i> The Photo Book,</i>Phaidon Press,London.<br />
Hoffman,M,1976,<i>Paul Strand Sixty Years of Photographs,</i>Aperture,New York.<br />
Pitts,T,2008, <i>Edward Weston,</i>Taschen,Cologne.<br />
Naef,W, 1994,<i>In Focus Andre Kertesz,</i>Getty Publications, Los Angeles.<br />
Sontag,S,1977,<i>On Photography,</i>Penguin Books,London.<br />
Szarkowski,J,2000, <i>Still Life Irving Penn,</i>Thames & Hudson,London.<br />
Rumsey,D,20/07/2011,www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution<br />
Cotton,C,2009,<i>the photograph as contemporary art,</i>Thames & Hudson,London.<br />
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</i>fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-80312390815900038632011-06-28T10:18:00.000-07:002011-06-28T10:18:33.659-07:00Colours into Tones in Black and White For this exercise I have used the coloured filter presets in Lightroom to show the effects of the filters on black and white photographs. I have used the purest colours I could find so that the effects would be as clear as possible.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original Colour Image<br />
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</tbody></table> As you can see from the above image I have included a grey card as a mid-tone so that I can check that the exposure is correct.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Straight Black and White Conversion</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The image above is a straight black and white conversion which has a full range of tones from nearly white to black.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Filter</td></tr>
</tbody></table> With a red filter in place you can see that the most obvious change is that the red tomatoes have been lightened considerably, this is because the filter colour used lightens that particular colour and darkens its opposite on the colour wheel. The lemon has also been lightened slightly and has lost some detail.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yellow Filter</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The yellow filter has lightened the lemon and tomatoes and has darkened the blue denim.<br />
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</tbody></table> The green filter used in the image above has had the least effect of all the filters, the tomatoes are ever so slightly lighter as is the lemon and lime.<br />
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</tbody></table> The difference using the blue filter is very dramatic, the tomatoes are glossy jet black, the lemon and lime have both been darkened. The darkening of the lemon has really enhanced the appearance of its texture and whereas in the preceding images it seemed quite flat, in this image it has become dominant.<br />
I think it would be interesting to try this exercise with a film camera to see if these computer generated images are true to lifefotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-59662270465703533962011-06-23T02:12:00.000-07:002011-06-23T02:12:48.377-07:00Colour Relationships We now all generally use colour in our photography without really thinking about it, so it very interesting to make colour the defining element in an image. As it stated in the instructions for this exercise finding the exact colour relationships of Red: Green 1:1, Orange: Blue 1: 2, and Yellow: Violet 1: 3, was not going to be easy without resorting to so manipulation of the elements of the scene. Having said that my first image almost fell into my lap, I was just gazing down on a street scene in London when the green bin lorry just pulled up next to a red bus, a " decisive moment" you might say.<br />
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</tbody></table> As you can see they are in almost the perfect 1: 1 proportion, without the element of the complimentary colours there would be no picture, just imagine if the bus and lorry were brown and blue. The only element that upsets the balance is the green bush in the top left corner, but because of the diagonal nature of the image your eye is drawn to the lorry first and then the bus and your eye is ' satisfied ' there.<br />
The two below that deal with complimentary colours I had to set up because I just could not find them occurring naturally. The first image is a classic flower against a blue sky, I have used a polariser to deepen the blue of the sky and reduce any reflected light on the flower.<br />
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</tbody></table> The proportion of blue to orange in this image is not quite right as there is a bit too much blue, it is probably closer to 1: 3, but I felt that the poppy needed some space around it as it is a kind of single point picture.<br />
The next combination was the most difficult to find because violet is quite a rare colour, it does not appear much in nature and it is not used much commercially, when did you last see a violet car.<br />
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</tbody></table> I set this up by placing the yellow daisy in a pot of lavender and then shooting close at a wide aperture to blur the lavender, so that the lavender almost swells to fill the frame with colour and your eye is drawn to the daisy as a point of sharpness and difference in colour. The proportions of yellow to violet are pretty much spot on, but the effect is softened slightly by the inclusion of the green between the complimentary colours.<br />
Now I have dealt with the complimentary colours I want to show some other combinations that appealed to me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red/Blue</td></tr>
</tbody></table> I had been looking at these ventilation ducts for some time trying to work out how I could get a picture out of them, when I noticed the man in the red shirt walking towards them, it's just a shame that the other man was not wearing a blue shirt. But I think it is still a nicely balanced composition with diagonal lines zig-zagging through the picture and the slightly larger man nearer to the edge of the frame, although I must admit I cropped it to get these proportions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Summer Garden, Orange/Violet/Green</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Back to my flowers now I'm afraid, but this image is all about colour, the green is quite recessive so it does not really notice and its the contrast of the orange and violet that comes to the fore. These two colours are in equal proportions and therefore the brightness of the orange is balanced by the richness of the violet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poppies, Similar Colours</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This is a lovely fiery combination of two 'hot' colours with just a hint of violet to cool things down a bit, in this image the orange is so bright that the red appears quite recessive. The only problem with this picture is that I would have liked to have lost the red poppy stem as I think it confuses the composition but then the colours became unbalanced.<br />
So this has been a very informative exercise and certainly has given me some insight into why some of my past images have not worked as well as I had hoped and I look forward to applying this new knowledge in the future, if only I wasn't colour blind.fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-26010327334008541322011-06-18T10:18:00.000-07:002011-06-18T10:18:40.420-07:00Primary & Secondary Colours For this exercise my first inclination was to head straight for plants and flowers, but as I had pictured these for my second assignment I tried to avoid using them again, but in the end I had to use them for some of the colours. Finding pure colours occurring naturally in the environment takes more time than you would think especially violet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/2 a Stop Under Exposed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/2 a Stop Over Exposed</td></tr>
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I found abandoned trailer at the side of the A12 in Essex, it had been used as a cafe in the past, so it has a certain amount of local historical interest. Out of the three pictures the one that is under exposed is closest to the blue in the colour circle, blue subjects were quite hard to find unless you used the sky or reflections of the sky.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/2 A Stop Over Exposed</td></tr>
</tbody></table> I found this complete field of poppies growing where the farmer had left his field fallow for several years, it was a great sight. I have found that if I over expose red subjects that I tend to lose detail in the brighter areas, out of these three picture the under exposed one is once again the nearest to the red in the circle.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/2 a Stop Under Exposed</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirFgbAPgfQn2hyof1TfB1DadJmX2ZgDTq15h2pPYQRqixli0gRT9sFHMMRhVdhxS4r161RYDS7tNSf5HQEqdm-fuVOvVyrzKt3pS9SO-Iir9lop8WlS7Nk6wknLkKT_09YkpSUEiZtZQ8/s1600/_DSC5151.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirFgbAPgfQn2hyof1TfB1DadJmX2ZgDTq15h2pPYQRqixli0gRT9sFHMMRhVdhxS4r161RYDS7tNSf5HQEqdm-fuVOvVyrzKt3pS9SO-Iir9lop8WlS7Nk6wknLkKT_09YkpSUEiZtZQ8/s400/_DSC5151.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Normal Exposure</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/2 a Stop Over Exposed</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Because yellow is the brightest of the colours the cameras' meter will tend to under expose it as it is lighter than a mid tone. Therefore the over exposed one of these three images is closest to a true yellow, the under exposed image is too dark to be a true yellow.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/2 a Stop Under Exposed</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVWcpCEcOkOl8MY3y94KL26qhCdg8L4toRKWlvFZvKi3JJ4nCZNJYXgminPaPVXTaSpjo4ysjqsrpP-scUjs9XCuRPYQK5RLpmYBVgZswUgp0hhrpXulpxBPh3gY9Js6TyYbTrmLeZc9Y/s1600/_DSC5120.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVWcpCEcOkOl8MY3y94KL26qhCdg8L4toRKWlvFZvKi3JJ4nCZNJYXgminPaPVXTaSpjo4ysjqsrpP-scUjs9XCuRPYQK5RLpmYBVgZswUgp0hhrpXulpxBPh3gY9Js6TyYbTrmLeZc9Y/s400/_DSC5120.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Normal Exposure</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/2 a Stop Over Exposed</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Violet is the rarest of the colours to find, I could only really find it in its true form in flowers, out of these three, once again the under exposed image is the closest to the colour circle.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/2 a Stop Under Exposed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Normal Exposure</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/2 a Stop Over Exposed</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This grass was very well watered and was therefore a very bright green, the closest to its true state is the normal exposure, but the closest to the colour circle is once again the under exposed one. I normally use grass as a mid tone if I need a reference whilst photographing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/2 a Stop Under Exposed </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Normal Exposure</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/2 a Stop Over Exposed</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Because orange is a mixture of red and yellow, it appears to need a lighter exposure to match the colour circle, I think that the the normal exposure is the closest match, although I prefer the brightness of the over exposed image.<br />
This has been an interesting and surprisingly tricky exercise and I feel quite disheartened that I had to resort to flowers again to complete it.<br />
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fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-42675737002921120532011-06-10T08:44:00.000-07:002011-06-10T08:44:37.075-07:00Control the strength of a colour This was a fairly straight forward exercise to see how altering the exposure of a subject will affect its colour. I chose my own front door as it is a good strong colour, so any changes should be obvious.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No Exposure Compensation<br />
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</tbody></table> The image above is with no compensation and the colour is quite strong but slightly lighter than the actual door.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under Exposed by 1/2 Stop</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This image is much closer to the true door colour, it under exposed by 1/2 a stop and the colour appears deeper.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under Exposed by 1 Stop</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This image is under exposed by 1 stop, the red now appears darker and more saturated than the actual door, although in effect it is only the brightness of the image that has changed, the saturation of the image cannot be changed by changing the exposure alone.<br />
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</tbody></table> The picture above is over exposed by 1/2 a stop, the colour is starting to appear washed out and has no real depth, it has brought out more of an orange tone.<br />
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</tbody></table> This image is over exposed by 1 stop and is so washed out it bears almost resemblance to the original door, I can't believe that it is only the brightness of the colour that has changed and not the saturation.<br />
The second image where the door was under exposed by 1/2 a stop is the closest to its true colour, this would be because the door is darker than a mid tone so the cameras meter would over expose.<br />
I think that under exposing to create the impression of a stronger colour is definitely a technique that I will utilise in the future.fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-68576855727453599572011-06-03T12:51:00.000-07:002011-06-03T12:51:17.621-07:00Street Photographs The photographs that follow are not a part of the course but I have been having a go a some street photography over the last few months and I wanted to share my favourites.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>fotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136033177121470384.post-28373480590061611882011-06-02T14:30:00.000-07:002011-06-02T14:30:45.377-07:00Assignment 2, Elements of DesignFor this assignment I chose the plants and flowers option as I had some previous experience with this type of photography and I wanted to see how applying the compositional rules would affect my approach. I have tried to vary the type of images I produced by taking still life and environmental photographs.<br />
Most of the way we now look at photographing natural forms we owe to Edward Weston (1886-1958), he shunned the former pictorialist fashion, of a more painterly approach to photography, and allowed natural light to show natural forms, such as vegetables and shells, in a true and uncompromising way. He was a consummate technician and used his considerable skill to create " a vision of sheer aesthetic form" Weston cited Pitts,T (2008), most of us now follow his way of working, even if we have never heard of him. We would not normally photograph a natural form in an unnatural way, unless it was for a special purpose, Westons' beautifully lit Nautilus Shell (1927) and Pepper No.30 (1930) photographs are still the pinnacle of natural photography for many. So although I do not feel that any of my submissions for this assignment are particularly Westoneque, I do feel that his way of working underpins much of my own work process, " I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render"( Weston cited Pitts, T 2008).<br />
My first couple of images are influenced by another photographer with natural forms, in the shape of male nudes and also flowers, and that is Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989).<br />
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</tbody></table> The poppy above was captured in my garden just as the sun was rising, the light striking the flower from behind and leaving the flowerbed behind in darkness. Mapplethorpe used a similar treatment in his flower images, using backlighting on a thin papery poppy in his Poppy (1988) and generally keeping his flower subjects quite small in the frame, although all the flower studies of his, that I have seen, have been studio based.(Levas,D.1990)<br />
Another favourite flower of Mapplethorpes was the Orchid and that was my next choice.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Curves</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Mapplethorpe was known for his almost sexual images of flower especially, his Jack in the Pulpit (1988) and the many Orchid photographs he made throughout the 1980's. I think you can see why he chose the Orchid, it is just full of curves and open for all to see.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vertical and Horizontal Lines</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diagonal Lines</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The two photographs above show the influence of a third photographer, Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932), who was a lecturer at the Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin,he took his greatly magnified photographs of plants so that his students could copy their natural forms in sculpture.( Badger,G.2007) Like Weston, Blossfeldt aspired to clear, sharp images of natural forms, but unlike Weston he was not adverse to tweaking the plants first. He would quite happily cut off a leaf he did not like. Also whereas Weston was trying to produce a work of art, nothing was further from Blossfeldts mind and he was amazed when his book Art Forms in Nature (1928) was widely acclaimed by the art establishment.<br />
The picture of the fern above is typical Blossfeldt, although mine is lit from behind on a lightbox, a plant structure on a plain background.<br />
The image of the grassheads is inspired by Blossfeldts graphically compelling pictures of Two-rowed barley(1928), although I have obviously tried to make it even more strikingly graphic. ( Adam,H,C. 2008)<br />
Strangely enough after taking the picture of the grassheads for the diagonal lines part of the assignment I felt distinctly uncomfortable, in picking the grass and laying it out in a pattern, a la Blossfeldt, I had gone against the Weston in me, so I took another more natural diagonal picture, below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diagonal Lines again</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> I feel more comfortable with this image, no messing about, no contrivance, maybe it worked for Blossfeldt because he was not trying to produce arty.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two Points</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Several points</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The two images above are more naturalistic, I wanted to find the 'points' pictures occurring naturally, finding one point, fairly straightforward, two points, not too bad, finding multiple points and still ending up with a balanced picture, not so easy. But being difficult it made me really look at plants in a different way, instead of looking at a single bloom I started to look at combinations and how they react within the frame, teaching me to " really see" ( Strand,P cited by Badger,G 2007). I Particularly like the poppy picture because the mass of vegetation of the right is balanced by the single delicate bloom on the left.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shape</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shape</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The two shape photographs are fairly straightforward indoor shots, taken indoors to make sure there was no movement to blur the details. The Anenome centre immediately above is a fairly stable image, being round the eye does not leave the frame, whereas the Cornflower above it has a nice interesting star shape with the diagonal needle like leaves leading the eye off to the edge of the frame and back.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Implied Triangle</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Above is the first of my implied triangle images and it brings me back to the work of Edward Weston, especially the pictures he made around Point Lobos in the 1930's. At that time he was greatly interested in the patterns made by tree roots, rocks and all kinds of naturally occurring subjects. If I had not been looking for a triangle I would not have taken this picture but I feel it has a certain creepy quality that I cannot quite put my finger on.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Implied Triangle</td></tr>
</tbody></table> This picture is made up of several triangles made by the tree branches, one of the branches also leads your eye across the frame to the hole through the plants on the right side, giving you a window through the picture. The light is coming from behind the tree giving a translucence to the leaves and flowers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Implied Triangle</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The picture of Alliums above is the kind of picture I might have taken before but the addition of the triangular formation is not something I would have thought of applying and I feel it makes the image. Without the Allium on the left at the back the picture would be unbalanced and the three Alliums in a row would lead your eye off of the image.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pattern</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The pattern made by the Chrysanthemums above has just the right amount of irregularity to keep it interesting, if the pattern was perfect it be less appealing .( Freeman, M. 2007) I have added as much contrast as possible to emphasize the pattern.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rhythm</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Finding rhythm among plants was more difficult than I thought, plants tend to grow around rather than along. The Hyacinths above have several rhythms, one runs up and down the leaves and the main one running across the picture loops along the bottom of the blooms.<br />
I have found the application these different compositional rules very illuminating and the rigor of having to apply them to my images has definitely changed the way I look at possible subjects. Before if I was taking a plant portrait I would have zoomed in close, blurred the background and that would have been it, job done. Hopefully I will be able to keep these compositional pointers in mind in the heat of the moment in the future.<br />
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Ref : Pitts,T,2008,<i> Edward Weston,</i>Taschen, Cologne.<br />
Levas,D,1990,<i> Flowers Mapplethorpe</i>,Bullfinch,Boston,New York,London.<br />
Badger,G,2007, <i>The Genius of Photography,</i>Quadrille,London.<br />
Adam,H,C,2008,<i>Karl Blossfeldt The Complete Published Works,</i>Taschen,Cologne.<br />
Freeman,M 2007,<i>The Photographers Eye,</i>ILEX,Lewesfotomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03814766156207185186noreply@blogger.com0