Monday, 31 March 2014

Masters of Photography

Using direct flash on subject

The Critic by Weegee
1943
Silver gelatin print
26.4 x 33 cm














Diffuse flash

Caspar David Friedrich Schule by Rineke Dijkstra
1998
Chromogenic colour print
93.7 x 74.5 cm

















Bounce flash

Nan and Brian in bed by Nan Goldin
1983
Silver dye bleach print
39.4 x 58.9 cm












Over/under exposure image by Nan Goldin



Sunday, 30 March 2014

Self direct - Camera use

Reflective Lighting - deep depth of field

f4, 1/1000 s, ISO 200. Using gold reflector.













Direct Lighting - rule of thirds
f8, 1/640s, ISO 200













Diffuse Lighting

f5, 1/1000s, ISO 200



Friday, 28 March 2014

Masters of Photography

Diffused Lighting

Macau Bridge by Wolfgang Tillmans
1993
Chromogenic colour print
30.5 x 40.6 cm



















Directed light


Invisible man by Jeff Wall
2001
Silver dye bleach transparency print, aluminium light box
174 x 250.8cm















Reflected light

Smokin Jo by Wolfgang Tillmans
1995
Chromogenic colour print
40.6 x 30.5 cm






Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Class task - Lighting

Direct lighting - High Vantage point

f22, 1/125 s, ISO 200













Diffuse lighting - Shallow depth of field

f5, 1/400 s, ISO 200














Reflected lighting - Rule of thirds and colour

f11, 1/400 s, ISO200



Self Direct - Camera use


Contrasting colours

f7, 1/100 s, ISO 100














Complementary colours

f7, 1/100 s, ISO 100                                                
                                                                           
















Harmonious colours

f5.6, 1/100 s, ISO 100
































Sunday, 23 March 2014

Master Photographers - Camera Use

Kaori by Nobuyoshi Araki
1940
Chromogenic Print
12.7 x 16 inches











Just Rite Cafe by William Eggleston
1973
Dye transfer print
20.7 x 30.7cm


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Class task - Camera use.

Colour and customise white balance
First change the AWB to customise white balance
I set the aperture on f8 not sure if it could have been a larger aperture, 1/100 shutter speed at 100 ISO then adjusting the camera metering to the 0. Take a picture of a white blank paper. Find in menu Custom White Balance, set it as customise white balance.













f8, 1/100 s, ISO100 (Contrasting colour)














f16, 1/100 s, ISO100 (Hamonious colours)




















f8, 1/100 s, ISO 100 (Complimentary colours)


Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Self Direct - Camera Use

Large negative space
f10, 1/60 s, ISO 400

























Positive and negative space
f10, 1/60 s, ISO 400















Photoshop color corrections


  1. Correcting White Balance on youtube
Class task for Digital tech

Correcting and incorrect White balance image

Original Image













Completed Image by adjusting the image with colour balance, -65 Cyan, -1Magenta, +8 Blue
Adjusting the Levels and the blue Curves.

Sunday, 16 March 2014

Masters of Photography

Positive and negative space

Gift of James Thrall Soby by Rayograph
1928
Gelatin silver print
39.3 x 29.6cm



















Large negative space

Equisetum hiemale by Karl Blossfeldt
1898-1928
Gelatin silver print
59.5 x 23.7cm

Karl Blossfeldt. Equisetum hiemale. 1898-1928

























Textual juxtaposition

Dunes, Oceano, California by Ansel Adams
1963
Gelatin silver print
18.6 x 19.7cm


Ansel Adams. Dunes, Oceano, California. 1963









Camera Use - Class Task

Juxtaposition of contrasting texture.

Manual setting, f7.1, 1/80 s, ISO 200
















Manual setting, f10, 1/80 s, ISO 200














Positive and negative space


Manual setting f10, 1/80 s, ISO 200



















Large negative space








Friday, 14 March 2014

Digital Tech - Self Direct

Masking the butterflys, and myself, then copy and paste onto background image.
Then blurred a couple of the butterflys to make it a bit realistic.
















Master Photographer for Digital Tech - Pierre et Gilles


Photoshop CS6 Tutorial - Masking

Masters of Photography - Line, Horizontal and vertical lines, and pattern















Shuchov transmission tower by Alexander Rodchenko
1929
Gelatin silver print
5 13/16 x 8 7/8 inches.














How small the world is by Manuel Alvarez Bravo
1942
Gelatin silver print
16 x 24.2 cm














Gift of Marvin Hoshino by Helen Levitt
1959
Chromogenic color print
30.4 x 45.6 cm



Camera Use - Self direct

Line, pattern, horizontal and vertical lines

Diagonal Line 
f7.1, 1/320 s, ISO 400













Pattern and vertical and horizontal lines
f5.6, 1/40 s, ISO 40













horizontal and vertical lines.
f5.6, 1/250 s, ISO 400








Camera Use - Class task

Line and pattern

f13, 1/15 s, ISO 100



















f13, 1/80 s, ISO 100



















not sure if you would call this diagonal
f13, 1/100 s, ISO 100













yeeeep then my battery to my camera went dead flat.

Monday, 10 March 2014

Master Photography for rule of thirds

Parade by Robert Frank
1955
Gelatin silver print
23.2 x 35.4cm













White House by Paul Strand
1932
Gelatin silver print
22.9 x29.2

Self Direct - Camera Use

Composition - Rule of thirds

f9, 1/250 s, ISO 100


























Digital Tech 1

Self direct Rule of thirds




Sunday, 9 March 2014

Digital Tech - Week 3 Class Task

Rule of thirds













Rule of thirds