People - so far?

Here are some images i have found for my peoples project, i am going to put these in a scrapbook but i thought i would put them on here for the time being. i would like to try and achieve this same type of work for my peoples project, some equipment i think to do this i would need a camera and reflector, maybe even my flash gun depending on the weather/location conditions.

Here are some more images along the same lines as what i have been looking at above, these where taken by Bill Sulivan an american photographer with 2 studios both based in new york.

here is a link to his website so you can view the images more clearly...

http://www.3situations.com/BillSullivanWorks/BillSullivan.html

below, are some images off flickr, these images are again along the lines of how i could maybe present the images, but i prefer the method above, strips of images in sets of 5. or even small individual prints that could work alone or ass a set of work!

Matt :)

Magic Hour

Magic hour is the hour of sunrise/or sunset. Over the weekend i went to southport beach, here i took what i believe to be a magic hour image, the sun was setting, and the light was reflecting on the tiny puddles of water left on the beach when the tide went back out. I took this image as the sun was just beginning to set, therefore i feel it could have been more successful if i had waited fro say another 30-40minuites so the sky had changed colour and the lighting was a bit better.

Camera/Lens Techniques

The lenses and focal lengths that you can have for DSLR camera may vary according to the size of the sensor on the camera, for example a large format camera would make use of different focal lengths/lenses in a different way to say a 35mm camera. Generally, for a 35mm camera (your standard size film/digital) you would expect to anything under 35mm to be wide angle, 50mm a standard good all round lens, that could be used as your main lens on the camera, and 85mm onwards would be used as a zoom/telephoto. handy if you want to take a photograph of a bird but don't want to get too close so that you will disturb it.

Shallow Depth of Field...

Drop Focus...

Focal Lengths...

Shutter Speeds...

Halogen Lighting

For halogen lighting, i choose to use my outside security light, i choose this because its a halogen bulb but i photographed it in a different way to all the other lighting types i had photographed, i choose to use the light fitting its self as the object to photograph, and let the glow of the halogen bulb light up my object.

Fluresent Lighting

For fluresent lighting, i went down to a subway under the m6, i choose to do this because subways are dark dingy places and need to be well lit all the time but at the same time need to be lit with reliable and affordable lighting. I choose to photograph a vent on the opposite side of the lights, I picked this because the grills in the vent looked interesting to me and i like how the light fell on the object.

Sodium Lighting

Sodium lighting is what is used in street lights, is cheap to run and produce which is why it is so commonly used, for this photograph i choose to place my friends car under a street light, even though the car is not that visible, you can see what effect the street lighting has on the car, a soft glow coming from above gently lights up certain areas of the car.

Incandesent Lighting

Incandescent Lighting is normal house hold bulbs, i choose to photograph part of my front door for this task as we have an outside light next to it which has a normal household bulb inside it.

I think this shows the type of lighting very well, the light is coming from the right hand side as you can see in the photo.

Lightroom: White Balance

In lightroom you can edit the white balance simply by using the slider on the side menu bar. To do this i selected an image previously imported into lightroom, and adjusted the temperature of the image, to warm, grey, and cool.

This image is the warm image, as you can see on the bar in the screen shot the slider is more towards the top end of the scale, giving the image an orange/yellow tint.

This is the grey image, as you can see the slider is pretty much in the middle of the scale, this is basically a plain image, as it was taken on the camera.

This final image is Cool, as you can see the slider is at the bottom of the scale, this effect gives a blue tint to the image.

There are other 'Development' tools in lightroom that can be used with ease, Iv found its only really useful for basic editing whereas photoshop is much better for in depth editing.

Lightroom: Workflow and Asset Managment

To Imporant an image into lightroom, (Adobe's Photo Managment Software) you have to click on 'File', and then to 'Import photo's from disk'.

Then i select the images that i want to import to Lightroom from the hard drive.

The images will then appear in the Library.

To add a caption to the image, I scrolled down the side menu to the metadata and added my caption in the box named 'Caption'

I enjoyed using lightroom, its a good way to see all of your images in the catalogue and manage your workflow with ease.