Lighting
Back lighting is about knowing where the source of light is coming from. A backlit photo is when the subject of the photo is silhouette and the background is brighter than the subject.
The AE Lock (AEL) setting is used to prevent a subject being silhouette, it helps you capture more detail of your subject. This is done by taking your camera close to your subject, hold down the AEL, whilst holding it down move away from your subject and then take the photo whilst holding down the AEL.
Using the Fill in Flash setting fills in the colours that weren't there. It corrects backlit situations and ensures the background is not overexposed. It gives a shiny look on the subject.
Shutter Speed Panning
If the shutter is open for a long time more light is let in, this can cause the photo to be overexposed as you can see above. However using a long shutter speed allows you to take photos in poor lighting.
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Panning blurs out the background. To pan you choose a lower shutter speed e.g 1/30th of a second or using the landscape setting. When the subject approaches follow them with the camera, press the shutter down and continue to follow.
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If the shutter is open for a short amount of time less light gets in, making the photo darker. A fast shutter speed
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Camera Diagram |
AperatureThe smaller the aperature on a camera the more light is let into the image, the bigger the aperature the less light is let into the image. e.g f/12.8 lets in lots of light, f/22 does not let in a lot of light.
The more amount of light let into the lense, everything wil be in focus. |
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars and posters, and in books. “I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.”—Ansel Adams |
Brassai Work
Brassai has influenced some of my work during this project. These photo's have been edited on Adobe Photoshop to create the style of Brassai. This was done by desaturating the images and by adjusting the brightness & contrast to my liking of an equal balance between light and dark, along with this I zoomed into the images more to create a more Brassai styled photograph.
Brassai
Brassai was a Hungarian photographer who did 'surrealist' photography on everyday random objects. Brassai has some distinctive features in his photography, one of these being desaturated photos close up. He fills most of the page with the subject of the photo, leaving the viewer to conclude what they see. In my opinion i think he is trying to achieve photo's which are mostly narrow depth of field and focused, this is so the person viewing the photograph's will be intrigued to know what it may be, leaving them to ponder on his work.
3 BEST IMAGES
I've chosen these 3 pictures as my best photos from the 20 below because they show a variety of angels, light and detail. The first photo shows close detail of the texture of the metal can as well as the dried up spray paint, also showing the light reflection creating a more detailed close up. My second photo is a shot of the overall can from higher view with the lid blurred and placed slightly behind the graffiti can. Lastly this third photo i liked because of the position of the can and lid itself along with the brightness of the photo and the shine shown on the can, pain and lid.