Portrait

A portrait of a student of Central sussex college. With this image you will need to capture someone in your group within the surrounds of The college building.

This is the Landscape image i chose of myself in front of the college entrance.

Social Documentary, Christmas Shopping

With the closing of Woolworth's today, it is expected that there will be large crowds around the shop. It will also be busy in town. You are not to take pictures of individual people or inside any shops or the county mall. However with your pictures I want you to try and capture the busy street at Christmas.

This is the Social Documentary Christmas Shopping image i chose showing the mall with all the shops & the busy street crowded with people.

Landscape Nature Vs Urbane

You will go out into Crawley town and try to capture the built environment but to include elements of nature in every shot.





This is a typical example of Nature Vs Urbane, Nature being the grass & bush's around the park which is Urbane ie man made.

Self Portrait

This picture was taken in the studio at college

I like this image because it's got the detail of the studio & me as the main subject.

The title of this picture is One Man & A Studio.

I chose to take this picture because it represents what i do in my spare time & thats recording music.

Portrait Photography

Name Of Photographer: Cindy Sherman

Birth Place: Glen Ridge (New Jersey)

Born & Died: Born January 19th 1954 - Still Alive

Type Of Photography: Portrait

Influential Works: I wouldn't say this type of photograph will influence my work because it's not real images it's all effects.

Photo Montage

Denotation: Hitler with A monkeys body

Connotation: Despite all the destruction he caused the world is still fine.

Denotation: Body full of money

Connotation: He was getting paid for the destruction he had caused

Denotation: Hand holding gun

Connotation: The Nazi Party was resulting to gun crime before WW2

Brief Explination Of Photo Montage: Photo Montage is a selection of photographs cut out & stuck into one image. The pictures used come together to make a brand new photographic print even though this method doesn’t use film. This is known as compositing or often called Photoshopping.

Photoshop Lesson 1

In todays lesson we learn't how to do basic edits on Adobe Photoshop, The tools i used were the Marquee Tool, Lasso Tool, The Text Box Tool & I played around with all of the different effects in the Filter drop down at the top of Photoshop.
Tools I Used

• The Marquee tool highlights a box so u can copy & paste it onto another part of your image

• The Lasso Tool creates a shape of your choice around a selection of the image so you can copy & paste it to another part of your picture
• Text Box creates a text box on any part of your image you choose it to be so you can add your own text into it.
• Other effects i used change the image, i.e negative, sharpen, paint & even neon effects.

I used the Marquee tool to copy the balcony at the top of the police station so there's three when originally there was only one.

I used the Lasso tool to copy the dark red car at the bottom of the image on the road & the car turning out of the road which you can see at the top of the station.

I used the Text box tool to add the text in the middle of the image.

Landscape

This is my first image i chose out of the ones i took, i call this one Tree After Tree.--->










<--- This is the second image I chose, I call this one Memorial Shops.

This is the third images i chose, i call this one Library On An Estate --->

<--- This is the fourth images i chose, i call this one Back Of The Mall

Robbert Capa

Real Name - Andrei Erno Friedmann
Name - Robbert Cap

Birth Place - Budapest, Hungary

Born - 22nd October 1913

Died - 25th May

Location Of Death - Thai Binh, Vietnam

Cause Of Death - War

Nationality - United States

Executive Summary - War Photographer

Author of books: Death in the Making (1938) The Battle of Waterloo Road (1941) Invasion! (1944) Slightly Out of Focus (1947, memoir)

Robert Capa's Photography Style Was Social Documentary, Good Social Documentary
Illustrates Other Aspects Of A Subject's Life

World Turned Upside Down

I have chosen this picture as my 1st choice out of the 5 we took because it makes you think where the smoke is really coming from, could it be a teenager setting fires, a bonfire, a house on fire or even just chimney smoke.

It took a while to capture this image because it was taken from quite a distance & i didn't have a tri-pod with me so i had to keep my hands steady which took a few attempts.

I chose this picture as my second image out of the 5 we took because it's a good way to look at the memorial gardens & one of the best scenery images there is to take of the soldier rememberance garden.

Camera Obscura

What did you see in the camera obscura?

At first it was totally dark, then after a few seconds the bottom of the screen went lighter than the top (the sky) then the top of the screen started having moving blurs which became clearer as time went on. Then after about 2 minutes u could make out the buildings.

How is the camera obscura similar to an inside of a camera?

The way the camera obscura is similar to the inside of a camera is how there's only a small whole letting light through which projects light from outside into a dark camera or room in our case & projects it onto an image or screen in our case.

How was it different?

You can't take still images of the camera obscura, you can't change the apature, You can't put it in your pocket & take it werever you go & you also can'not fit 5 people inside a camera.

Why was the image upside-down?

Because there was so much light trying to get through the small hole, the light was projected at different angles so the top was projected down through the whole & to the bottom, as is the bottom projected up to the top of the image & so on & so fourth.

SLR Camera Notes:

SLR cam's range from 4secs to 1/4000 of a second
the faster the shutter opens & closes the less light thats exposed to the film - less light on the pic

The slower the shutter opens & closes the more light thats exposed to the film - more light on pic

ISO on film camera's - MP (Mega Pixel) on digital camera's

Aperture - smaller the aperture - least amount of light
- larger the aperture - more light let in

Slow - 1sec
Fast - 1/30 sec
V-Fast - 1/1000 sec

Lower the number - larger the aperture
higher the number - smaller the aperture

Shutter - 1/4sec Aperture - f/2.8 = Too much light
Shutter - 1/8sec Aperture - f/8 = Too light & blurred
Shutter - 1/30sec Aperture - f/2.8 = Similar to previous
Shutter - 1/250sec Aperture - f/22 = Totally black
Shutter - 1/30sec Aperture - f/8 = People slightly blurred background really blurred
Shutter - 1/30sec Aperture - f/16 = Almoost perfect
Shutter - 1/500sec Aperture - f/2.8 = Totally blurred background

Depth of field (DOF)

Background <----- DOF -----> Forground

Small number - Background not in focus
Large number - Background & Forground in focus

Large aperture - More light but smaller DOF
Small aperture - Less light but lager DOF (Unblurred Background)

Denotation & Connotation

Denotation - To list what you see in the picture

- A DJ
- Cd's
- Mixer
- Turntables
- Headphones

Connotation - Our emotional link to the image

- Could be a fomous DJ
- Big club (well know) because of famous radio DJ
- Expensive professional gear

The Image I Liked:

Study for `The City' 1909-10

Study for `La Ville'

Robert Delaunay 1885-1941

The reason I chose this piece to be the picture i like was because it has alot of detail and has more to it than what's in the picture, it origionally had the Eiffel Tower at the top of it but was cut down bye the artist before being submitted into the art world.