Finals :)

WEEK 1

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WEEK 3

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WEEK 6

WEEK 7

*i cropped this photo of Kendra because there was a lot of negative space and the subject didn't have as much of an impact as it does in this cropped photo.

Week 7: Studio Photography

Rembrandt Lighting

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shutter: 1/125

ISO:100

You can see the triangle of light on the right side of Tangi's face. 

Rim Lighting

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shutter: 1/25

ISO: 100

f/ 9

shutter: 1/25

ISO: 100

*the lighting creates a rim of light around Kendra's and Nia's head in these photos. 

Too bad with Nia's photo, i didn't focus it right so it's a bit soft. 

Week 7: Research: Rim and High Key Lighting

Rim Lighting
I have long been a fan of rim lighting and, given the opportunity, would prefer to use it over a single light source. Rim lighting, which is often referred to as back light or even hair lights, is simply light placed on your subject which gives the appearance of a light outline. This technique pulls the subject off the background and offers some depth and dimension to what you are shooting.

High Key

High-key lighting simply refers to images that are mostly bright, with a range of light tones and whites and not very many blacks or mid-tones. In high-key photography, tones that generally would have been mid-range become much brighter, near-white tones become white and white becomes, well, white. This style of lighting was originally developed for films and television, back when the technology wasn’t very good at capturing high contrast ratios. Today high key is purely an artistic decision – photographers and filmmakers choose it when they want an image or story to be upbeat, optimistic or youthful.

Week 7: Research- Rembrandt and Split Lighting

Rembrandt lighting is a lighting technique that is used in studio portrait photography. It can be achieved using one light and a reflector, or two lights, and is popular because it is capable of producing images which appear both natural and compelling with a minimum of equipment. Rembrandt lighting is characterized by an illuminated triangle under the eye of the subject on the less illuminated side of the face. It is named for the Dutch painter Rembrandt, who often used this type of lighting.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt_lighting)

Split lighting at its most basic level is constructed with a single light source placed 90 degrees offset from the subject and a bit higher than eye level, lighting one half of the face, and leaving the other in shadow.

(http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/6656/what-is-split-portrait-lighting)

Week 6: Research. Texture, Leading Lines, Pattern

Pattern of the fence. 

Pattern of the fence and Leading Lines of the frame of the fence. 

Leading Lines the lanes in the pool. Even the person diving into the poor creates a leading line, leading your eye from left to right. 

 

Texture in her hair and sweater are more defined against the smooth wall and table top. You can even see texture in the chair that she's sitting on. 

website: itsnicethat.com 

Week 6: Pattern, Leading lines, Texture, Negative Space

CLASS TASK

Pattern that has been disrupted

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shutter: 1/80

ISO: 200

*the bag thats placed on the second chair disrupts the pattern of the chairs. 

Leading Lines 

f/ 8

shutter: 1/80

ISO: 200

*The lines of the building lead your eye to the wall of the building at the back.

I like the contrasting lines- the straight lines of the windows, and then the curving lines of the plastic corrugated shelter.  

f/ 8

shutter: 1/80

ISO: 200

*I like how the lines of the window are diagonal and how they lead your eyes off the page and into the sky. 

f/ 8

shutter: 1/80

ISO: 200

*this structure is curved, but from this angle the middle line looks almost straight. 

Leads your eye from the front of the photo to the end where the back door is. 

Textures 

f/ 8

shutter: 1/80

ISO: 200

*there are three textures in this photo, the tyre, the concrete floor and the dry plants on top of the tyres. 

f/ 8

shutter: 1/80

ISO: 200

Self Directed

Person in front of a textured background

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shutter: 1/50

ISO: 6400

By changing this photo to black and white, it really brings out the texture of the wall in the background. 

Texture

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shutter: 1/15

ISO: 100

Similar textures in the fan and the cardigan. 

I like the break in colour that the blue frame of the door creates against the white wall and white cardigan. 

f/ 8

shutter: 1/40

ISO: 100

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shutter: 1/50

ISO: 500

f/ 7.1

shutter: 1/50

ISO: 500

f/ 8

shutter: 1/50

ISO: 500

3 textures- velvet shirt, hair, and plastic flower lei

f/ 8

shutter: 1/50

ISO: 500

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shutter: 1/50

ISO: 500

I like these two images of when my nephew came and wore the flower lei from behind. They're quite a crack up. 

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shutter: 1/50

ISO: 500

*three textures- velvet shirt, silk material that's draped and her hair

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shutter: 1/50

ISO: 500

* i like how in these two images, theres not only contrast in the textures, but theres also contrast in colours, the light blue and dark blue. I also like how there are also similarities in the shine that all three textures have. 

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shutter: 1/50

ISO: 6400

High Vantage point with Negative Space

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shutter: 1/50

ISO: 6400

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shutter: 1/30

ISO: 6400

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shutter: 1/25

ISO: 6400

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shutter: 1/20

ISO: 6400

*these photos look like they're floating on a blue sea of carpet. I also like the bright colours of the clothing and shoes, against the blue carpet.

The texture in the carpet also creates an interesting negative space. 

f/ 3.5

shutter: 1/250

ISO: 6400

* this photo looks grainy and not as sharp. If i had decreased the ISO and used a tripod it may have helped create a more clear photo. 

f/ 4

shutter: 1/500

ISO: 200

f/ 3.5

shutter: 1/2000

ISO: 200

I like how the shadow disrupts the barrel rings on top of the shed. The overlapping of shapes is also interesting- the vertical lines of the shed roof, then the circle barrel rings, and then my shadow. 

Leading Lines

f/ 3.5

shutter: 1250

ISO: 200

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shutter: 1/1250

ISO: 200

I really like these two images of me on the shed. High vantage point. I like the shadows that are created, half on the grass below and half on the blue shed above. I also like ow the shadow of the pole is connected with the shadow of my hand. 

I also like the horizontal lines of the shed and the shadow of the shed that go across and lead your eye to the shadow of the pole and hand. 

f/ 22

shutter: 1/80

ISO: 200

I decreased the shadows in bridge so that you could see more detail in the wood. 

Negative Space

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shutter: 1/100

ISO: 400

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shutter: 1/100

ISO: 400

I increased the blue in this photo in HSL panel in bridge.

Low vantage point.

f/ 22

shutter: 1/30

ISO: 400

f/ 22

shutter: 1/100

ISO: 100

Because it was a cloudless day, i thought id take some pictures of negative space. In all these photos i used the sky as the negative space.